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Bickley, S. (2011). [Web log message]. Retrieved from http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SlasherMovie

(Bickley, 2011)

__**15 Facts:**__ >
 * 1) //Slasher movies are about individuals: one man is doing all the killing, and only one girl will outwit him and survive//
 * 2) Near-indestructible serial killers stalking attractive young girls, a combination that allows for buckets of gore and enough flesh to titillate.
 * 3) The killers, mostly driven by revenge, are Made of Iron , at a minimum, and usually Implacable.
 * 4) Many are explicitly supernatural.
 * 5) All of them can appear and disappear as if by magic ,
 * 6) A slasher killer can whisk away a full grown adult's corpse in seconds, leaving not a single drop of blood behind,
 * 7) The more explicitly supernatural killers will have powers ranging from Super Strength (all the better to pull victims through walls ), the ability to appear in dreams and attack the dreamers, or other ghostly abilities
 * 8) victims are usually teenagers or young adults, all usually guilty of some minor vice
 * 9) Eventually, there will be only one girl left standing, the Final Girl, normally the only "morally pure" member of the main cast.
 * 10) Come the next sequel, it will be revealed that the killer was actually Not Quite Dead.
 * 11) The genre first became popular in the late '70s and early '80s, with the release of the three most iconic slasher flicks: // Halloween //, // Friday the 13th //, and // A Nightmare on Elm Street //.
 * 12) would burn itself out in the late '80s
 * 13) The slasher genre was revived in the mid-late '90s, when Wes Craven's // Scream // satirized the genre and became a hit.
 * 14) every slasher movie features a serial killer or a spree killer
 * 15) gore-driven "torture porn" that dominated horror in this decade