Download or read book School Slashers 2020 written by Steve Hutchison and published by Tales of Terror. This book was released on 2023-02-23 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two popular subgenres converge. Film critic Steve Hutchison covers 50 excellent school slasher films and ranks them mathematically. A synopsis, five ratings, and a review are provided for each film. How many have you seen?
Download or read book School Slashers written by Steve Hutchison and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-31 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two popular subgenres converge. Film critic Steve Hutchison covers 50 excellent school slasher films and ranks them mathematically. A synopsis, five ratings, and a review are provided for each film. How many have you seen?
Download or read book The Slasher Movie Book written by Justin A. Kerswell and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with reviews of the best (and worst) slasher movies and illustrated with a collection of distinctive and often graphic poster artwork from around the world, this book looks at the political, cultural, and social influences on the slasher movie and its effect.
Download or read book Slasher School Days Paperback written by Clayton Overstreet and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-07 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sally Sharp is hardly a normal teenage girl. She's a hero, though it's hard to convince anyone of that when all they see are the dead bodies. Turns out when you kill werewolves, zombies, vampires, demons, and the cops find you standing over a bunch of chopped up apparently human bodies, the courts don't exactly take your word on what happened. But sometimes other people.. .and things... do. One day while chilling in a sanitarium Sally gets an offer to come to a school for supernatural killers. Given the choice between meals of gelatin and lithium or heading to a school full of undead psychos Sally decides to go. Now faced with every horror movie villain she's ever heard of as both her fellow students and teachers Sally has to survive the school year amid plots, massacres, and anything else they can throw at her. Though it soon becomes clear as she aces one test after another the question isn't just if she will make it out alive, but whether anyone else will.
Download or read book Savage Slashers written by Natalie Lunis and published by Bearport Publishing. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deinonychus (dye-NAH-nih-kuhss) and other slashers had big, curved, razor-sharp claws. What was special about one of these claws? Answer: The claw on the second toe of a slasher’s foot was shaped like a hook and much bigger than the other claws. Deinonychus and other slashers used that claw to grab on to their prey. These are just some of the fascinating facts kids will discover as they learn all about the deadly predators of the dinosaur age. Savage Slashers uses an engaging question-and-answer format that makes reading fun for emergent and early readers. With large, full-color illustrations, a fascinating "Fact Box" on every two-page spread, and grade-appropriate text, this book is sure to be a hit with all young dinosaur fans.
Download or read book Sapphic Slashers written by Lisa Duggan and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-10 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a winter day in 1892, in the broad daylight of downtown Memphis, Tennessee, a middle class woman named Alice Mitchell slashed the throat of her lover, Freda Ward, killing her instantly. Local, national, and international newspapers, medical and scientific publications, and popular fiction writers all clamored to cover the ensuing “girl lovers” murder trial. Lisa Duggan locates in this sensationalized event the emergence of the lesbian in U.S. mass culture and shows how newly “modern” notions of normality and morality that arose from such cases still haunt and distort lesbian and gay politics to the present day. Situating this story alongside simultaneously circulating lynching narratives (and its resistant versions, such as those of Memphis antilynching activist Ida B. Wells) Duggan reveals how stories of sex and violence were crucial to the development of American modernity. While careful to point out the differences between the public reigns of terror that led to many lynchings and the rarer instances of the murder of one woman by another privately motivated woman, Duggan asserts that dominant versions of both sets of stories contributed to the marginalization of African Americans and women while solidifying a distinctly white, male, heterosexual form of American citizenship. Having explored the role of turn-of-the-century print media—and in particular their tendency toward sensationalism—Duggan moves next to a review of sexology literature and to novels, most notably Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness. Sapphic Slashers concludes with two appendices, one of which presents a detailed summary of Ward’s murder, the trial, and Mitchell’s eventual institutionalization. The other presents transcriptions of letters exchanged between the two women prior to the crime. Combining cultural history, feminist and queer theory, narrative analysis, and compelling storytelling, Sapphic Slashers provides the first history of the emergence of the lesbian in twentieth-century mass culture.
Download or read book Legacy of Blood written by Jim Harper and published by Headpress. This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining in-depth analysis with over 200 film reviews, 'Legacy of Blood' is a comprehensive examination of the slasher movie and its conventions to date, from 'Halloweeen' to 'Scream' and beyond.
Download or read book Reading Phinehas Watching Slashers written by Brandon R. Grafius and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tale of the “zeal” of Phineas, expressed when he killed an Israelite man and a Midianite woman having sex and thus stopped a “plague” of consorting with idolatrous neighbors in the Israelite camp (Numbers 25), has long attracted both interest and revulsion. Scholars have sought to defend the account, to explain it as pious fiction, or to protest its horrific violence. Brandon R. Grafius seeks to understand how the tale expresses the latent anxieties of the Israelite society that produced it, combining the insights of historical criticism with those of contemporary horror and monster theory. Grafius compares Israelite anxieties concerning ethnic boundaries and community organization with similar anxieties apparent in horror films of the 1980s, then finds confirmation for his method in the responses of Roman-period readers who reacted to the tale of Phineas as a tale of horror. The combination of methods allows Grafius to illumine the concern of an ancient priestly class to control unsettled and unsettling community boundaries‒‒and to raise questions of implications for our own time.
Download or read book Slasher School Days written by Clayton Overstreet and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-29 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After years of fighting monsters out to end her and steal the ancient artifact she guards Sally Sharp just spent a year in an asylum because the police don't take "they were possessed cultist zombies" as a valid reason for killing your parents and several hundred other people. Then one day she is approached by a man who offers her a place at his school. A school for supernatural murderers. Given the choice between more time in a straight jacket talking to psychiatrists who don't believe her story Sally takes the deal. Now she's in a school where everybody is killing everyone else but nobody stays dead. Evil plots are afoot, she cannot trust anyone, and she's got a project on advanced knife work due by the weekend. What is a girl who kills killers, murders murderers, and mangles monsters supposed to do when everyone in class is a serial killer out for her blood? Welcome to slasher school. All you have to do to graduate is survive...
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Slasher Movies written by Peter Normanton and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engrossing A-Z of over 60 gory years of slasher and splatter movies, from Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later to Lucio Fulci's Zombie Flesh Eaters. Here you will find the low-down on over 250 movies with entries from 23 different countries. The index, which includes every movie mentioned in the A-Z and accompanying notes, runs to 540 movies. The book includes the list of video nasties which the UK government attempted to ban.
Download or read book Going to Pieces written by Adam Rockoff and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-03-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Carpenter's Halloween, released on October 25, 1978, marked the beginning of the horror film's most colorful, controversial, and successful offshoot--the slasher film. Loved by fans and reviled by critics for its iconic psychopaths, gory special effects, brainless teenagers in peril, and more than a bit of soft-core sex, the slasher film secured its legacy as a cultural phenomenon and continues to be popular today. This work traces the evolution of the slasher film from 1978 when it was a fledgling genre, through the early 1980s when it was one of the most profitable and prolific genres in Hollywood, on to its decline in popularity around 1986. An introduction provides a brief history of the Grand Guignol, the pre-cinema forerunner of the slasher film, films such as Psycho and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and cinematic trends that gave rise to the slasher film. Also explained are the slasher film's characteristics, conventions, and cinematic devices, such as the "final girl," the omnipotent killer, the relationship between sex and death, the significant date or setting, and the point-of-view of the killer. The chapters that follow are devoted to the years 1978 through 1986 and analyze significant films from each year. The Toolbox Murders, When a Stranger Calls, the Friday the 13th movies, My Bloody Valentine, The Slumber Party Massacre, Psycho II, and April Fool's Day are among those analyzed. The late 90s resurrection of slasher films, as seen in Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer, is also explored, as well as the future direction of slasher films.
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Slasher Movies written by Peter Normanton and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engrossing A-Z of over 60 gory years of slasher and splatter movies, from Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later to Lucio Fulci's Zombie Flesh Eaters. Here you will find the low-down on over 250 movies with entries from 23 different countries. The index, which includes every movie mentioned in the A-Z and accompanying notes, runs to 540 movies. The book includes the list of video nasties which the UK government attempted to ban.
Download or read book Slashers of the Millennium 20 Years of Kills written by Steve Hutchison and published by Tales of Terror. This book was released on 2023-04-22 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Included in this book are reviews of the 5 best slasher films for each year between 2000 and 2019, and reviews of the top 10 slasher films released in the same period. Each entry includes a picture of the antagonist, a star rating, a synopsis, and a three-paragraph review.
Download or read book Slasher Movies written by Mark Whitehead and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with facts and opinions, crammed with information and including an introductory essay and in-depth discussion of all the major films, this pocket guide to the world of 'slasher movies' is an essential guide for anyone interested in this most disturbing of film genres. Includes a discussion of all the major films and a checklist of stars who got their big break being slashed!
Download or read book Anatomy of the Slasher Film written by Sotiris Petridis and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term "slasher film" was common parlance by the mid-1980s but the horror subgenre it describes was at least a decade old by then--formerly referred to as "stalker," "psycho" or "slice-'em-up." Examining 74 movies--from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) to Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013)--the author identifies the characteristic elements of the subgenre while tracing changes in narrative patterns over the decades. The slasher canon is divided into three eras: the classical (1974-1993), the self-referential (1994-2000) and the neoslasher cycle (2000-2013).
Download or read book Blood Money written by Richard Nowell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have consistently applied psychoanalytic models to representations of gender in early teen slasher films such as Black Christmas (1974), Halloween (1978) and Friday the 13th (1980) in order to claim that these were formulaic, excessively violent exploitation films, fashioned to satisfy the misogynist fantasies of teenage boys and grind house patrons. However, by examining the commercial logic, strategies and objectives of the American and Canadian independents that produced the films and the companies that distributed them in the US, Blood Money demonstrates that filmmakers and marketers actually went to extraordinary lengths to make early teen slashers attractive to female youth, to minimize displays of violence, gore and suffering and to invite comparisons to a wide range of post-classical Hollywood's biggest hits; including Love Story (1970), The Exorcist (1973), Saturday Night Fever (1977), Grease and Animal House (both 1978). Blood Money is a remarkable piece of scholarship that highlights the many forces that helped establish the teen slasher as a key component of the North American film industry's repertoire of youth-market product.
Download or read book Whodunit Slashers 2019 written by Steve Hutchison and published by Tales of Terror. This book was released on 2023-03-05 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two popular subgenres converge. Film critic Steve Hutchison covers 50 excellent whodunit slashers and ranks them mathematically. A synopsis, five ratings, and a review are provided for each film. How many have you seen?
