Gendered Violence
In these films you will see that male characters are usually killed right away or quickly and they don't drag out the killing its usually just quick then done. With women you see them get chased around for quite a while and then when the killer finally catches them you will see them being killed and attacked for a while and they seem to be tortured and killed very slowly the very opposite of the male characters. A film that has some examples of this gendered violence and is considered a horror film not exactly a slasher film but still has some of the same characteristics would be "Cabin Fever". This film was created by Eli Roth in 2002 and draws from other horror films from the slasher movie golden age of the 1980's.
In these films you will see that male characters are usually killed right away or quickly and they don't drag out the killing its usually just quick then done. With women you see them get chased around for quite a while and then when the killer finally catches them you will see them being killed and attacked for a while and they seem to be tortured and killed very slowly the very opposite of the male characters. A film that has some examples of this gendered violence and is considered a horror film not exactly a slasher film but still has some of the same characteristics would be "Cabin Fever". This film was created by Eli Roth in 2002 and draws from other horror films from the slasher movie golden age of the 1980's.
In this film features five recent college graduates who rent a cabin for the weekend in the woods in a remote town. There are three guys and two girls involved in this film. You get to see some examples of gendered violence play out in this movie. There is a flesh eating virus that is contaminating the water source that feeds the cabins water supply. One of the girls comes down with the flesh eating virus and when she is sleeping with one of the male characters he notices that she is bleeding and there is a large wound on her leg. The group starts to freak out and instead of trying to help the girl out they banish her to a small tool shed so that the other four friends don't get infected by her. They leave her out in this tool shed and let this virus slowly eat her away. I think this is an excellent example of gendered violence on females in slasher films. She is just left to suffer and die slowly where as you see with other males in this film there are killed quickly and don't suffer like this girl did. The other female in the film suffers a very similar fate. Once she realizes that she is infected the virus slowly eats away at her and you just watch her suffer until she finally is killed by the virus. Another concept I am going to talk about with Slasher films is The "Final Girl" and the virgin whore complex as well as the films punishing sexually active women.
"Final Girl" and Punishing sexually active women
In this film we see Mr. Meyers as a young child and he goes on a brutal killing spree at his home. We see his older sister and her boyfriend having sexual relations and after they are done Michael comes in and brutal kills his sister with a large knife. She was tortured and it was a very drawn out gruesome scene to say the least. I believe this is a very good example of the girls who are sexually active being punished. When Michael comes back after fifteen years to his hometown to find his sister, ends up killing one of her friends in his old home after she was fooling around with her boyfriend. This would be another example of punishing the sexually active girls. The Final girl example would be that of Michael's sister who he comes back for after fifteen years. She is seen as pure and doesn't do any sexual things and she survives the movie after Meyers was after her. This movie had very good examples of both of these concepts I mentioned. That's all I for this entry, until my next entry peace.
As I mentioned earlier in this blog entry about the movie scream and the final girl usually being a non sexually active girl compared to others that died and the films punishing the girls that were sexually active by having them tortured and killed slowly. A film that I believe that has good examples of these to concepts would be Rob Zombies remake of Halloween (2007). This movie is a remake and it is a prequel to the original film. In this film there are lots of examples of punishing of the sexual active women and a very good final girl example.
In this film we see Mr. Meyers as a young child and he goes on a brutal killing spree at his home. We see his older sister and her boyfriend having sexual relations and after they are done Michael comes in and brutal kills his sister with a large knife. She was tortured and it was a very drawn out gruesome scene to say the least. I believe this is a very good example of the girls who are sexually active being punished. When Michael comes back after fifteen years to his hometown to find his sister, ends up killing one of her friends in his old home after she was fooling around with her boyfriend. This would be another example of punishing the sexually active girls. The Final girl example would be that of Michael's sister who he comes back for after fifteen years. She is seen as pure and doesn't do any sexual things and she survives the movie after Meyers was after her. This movie had very good examples of both of these concepts I mentioned. That's all I for this entry, until my next entry peace.
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