Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Nov 10, 2017 8:15:28 GMT
I think girls were always seeing horror movies. I dont know if that really changed from previous decades. Vincent Price liked to tell the anecdote of sitting behind girls in a movie theater and then after his movie ended, he would lean forward and say: wasn't that scary?
The big change I see with the slasher film beyond the elimination of the male protector character, was the absence of a theatrical bad guy. In fact, Vincent Price made a film in 1974 called Madhouse where he is stalked by a masked killer who is like a cartoon version of his own movie villain character, Dr. Death. It is a giallo in a sense, but also a prototype slasher killer.
I mentioned in another thread that Sydney's father in SCREAM is inexplicably dumped in a closet while his arms and legs are tied up-but clearly this was done because the filmmaker/producers did not want the father to be helping his daughter (helping each other would have brought more closure IMO).
The big change I see with the slasher film beyond the elimination of the male protector character, was the absence of a theatrical bad guy. In fact, Vincent Price made a film in 1974 called Madhouse where he is stalked by a masked killer who is like a cartoon version of his own movie villain character, Dr. Death. It is a giallo in a sense, but also a prototype slasher killer.
I mentioned in another thread that Sydney's father in SCREAM is inexplicably dumped in a closet while his arms and legs are tied up-but clearly this was done because the filmmaker/producers did not want the father to be helping his daughter (helping each other would have brought more closure IMO).