I Read Stories: Revenge Of The Slasher Film Archetypes by John A Tures
Revenge Of The Slasher Film Archetypes by John A Tures in Roi Fainéant
A girl in a wheelchair answers the call for slasher movie actors. She meets the Guy in glasses, the one in the letterman jacket, the cheerleader. They all have plans, hopes and dreams. None of them can escape the murderer. They keep finding themselves back in the breakroom. They keep being killed in The Nightmare On Wall Street or on Tuesday the 26th or by the New Mexico Weed Wacker killer, or on Arbor Day. None of their plans to escape work.
But what if this isn’t a slasher movie? What if they change the rules by changing the genre?
Read This: Delightful turnabout of slasher movie cliches –
by using tropes from other places
Don’t Read This: Nothing wrong with a slasher movie that a
bit more gore can’t solve
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