Exploitation

Despite the parental panic they incited in their 1980s heyday, slasher movies have a clear moral vision. Characters who party or have sex almost always get killed, usually after the actress exposes herself to the camera, while the “final girl”, the woman who survives to defeat the killer, is pointedly chaste. The slasher’s older, nastier …

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Despite the parental panic they incited in their 1980s heyday, slasher movies have a clear moral vision. Characters who party or have sex almost always get killed, usually after the actress exposes herself to the camera, while the “final girl”, the woman who survives to defeat the killer, is pointedly chaste. The slasher’s older, nastier …

Review: Unapologetic Exploitation Film “Revenge” Centers the Genre\’s Moral Compass Read More »