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Her Body, Himself: Gender In The Slasher Film

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Horror films are undeniably an interesting form of art that surprisingly, most males like to experience. In popular culture, as a male, gaining unquestionable masculinity is very essential. But there are always exceptions, what are these exceptions? Slasher films, in Carol Clover’s words, are “the immensely generative story of a psychokiller who slashes to death a string of mostly female victims...until he is subdued or killed, by the one girl who has survived” (Clover 193). Slasher Films portray a noticeably emerging pattern in horror films where killer, normally male, is ultimately eliminated by the female protagonist that was left to fend for herself. In “ Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film”, Clover analyzes how slasher films,

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