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The movie follows a group of teenagers (another commonly-targeted demographic in the horror genre) who are attacked by a family of cannibals, while on a trip. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) is a prime example of this, being the film that unofficially ‘founded’ the slasher genre we all recognize today. Why is it that our society is so in love with the idea of breaking women down? Call it morbid curiosity or a fascination with the macabre, but at its bare-bones, it is a fascination with the destruction of the feminine, which we ostensibly associate with innocence and purity.
We know it is not real, but sometimes, we even pay for the experience. We watch women being chopped into pieces, slashed, suffocated, mutilated. Yet, there is an argument to be made that this was the real show that people were here for all along. The film often plays out in a way that forces the female characters to get naked (for no evident plot advancement), scream prettily, and splay out in a sensually-bloodied manner after the fact. And then the music swells, the lighting dims, and the audience becomes an unwitting voyeur, forced to witness the violent death of a woman whose only crime was simply being. Often, they are simply walking alone at night, having sex, hanging out with their friends, doing any sort of normal activity.
They don’t usually share a past with the killer, provoke them, or try to harm them. The important thing to remember about these films is that the women almost never do a thing to antagonize the killer. This trope stems from the more widely-used concept of the damsel in distress, where the female characters fall subject to evil, and need to be saved (usually by a male character). Whether or not she ‘wins’, she is left with survivor’s guilt, from the trauma of watching her loved ones being murdered in front of her. The Final Girl trope is a creation of this subgenre, where the last girl left alive is forced to confront the killer. Slasher horror is known, generally, for its throes of female characters (often young and doe-eyed) who are forced to experience inexplicable horrors at the hands of a slasher villain for, usually, no reason whatsoever. In fact, horror has developed its own set of subgenres and tropes that thrive off the very pain and suffering of women. Since the very creation of the horror genre, women have been the victims of any carnage they end up facing, be it man or myth.
Women screaming and running away from various horrors, tortured women, women being murdered in any manner of gruesome ending. However, all of these films, with their variation across villains, protagonists, and mythologies, featured one thing in common: women. The role of women within the horror genre has been in a constant state of flux from its very fruition: early films, such as Dracula (1931) and P sycho (1960), featured satanic entities and murderers, while contemporary takes, like Paranormal Activity (2011) and Scream (1996), brought imagined hauntings and slasher films into the mix.
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