The Discarded Image | Halloween - The Fundamental Slasher @TheDiscardedImage | Uploaded April 2016 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
In this video essay I look at how John Carpenter created "The Fundamental Slasher" with Halloween.
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Carol J. Clover - Men, Women, and Chainsaws:
"The image of the distressed female most likely to linger in memory is the image of the one who did not die: the survivor, or Final Girl. She is the one who encounters the mutilated bodies of her friends and perceives the full extent of the preceding horror and of her own peril; who is chased, cornered, wounded; whom we see scream, stagger, fall, rise, and scream again. She is abject terror personified. If her friends knew they were about to die only seconds before the event, the Final Girl lives with the knowledge for long minutes or hours. She alone looks death in the face."
Films Referenced:
Shadow of a Doubt (Hitchcock, 1943)
Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)
A Bay of Blood (Bava, 1971)
Black Christmas (Clark, 1974)
Halloween (Carpenter, 1978)
Friday the 13th (Cunningham, 1980)
Prom Night (1980)
Maniac (Lustig, 1980)
My Bloody Valentine (1981)
The Prowler (Zito, 1981)
Halloween II (Rosenthal, 1981)
The Burning (Maylam, 1981)
Madman (Giannone, 1982)
Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986)
Scream (Craven, 1996)
Scream 2 (Craven, 1997)
In this video essay I look at how John Carpenter created "The Fundamental Slasher" with Halloween.
Support + Extra Content - patreon.com/thediscardedimage.
Follow Me:
twitter.com/julianjpalmer
fb.com/TheDiscardedImageUK
instagram.com/julianjpalmer
Sponsorship and business inquiries: julian@1848media.com
For educational purposes only.
Carol J. Clover - Men, Women, and Chainsaws:
"The image of the distressed female most likely to linger in memory is the image of the one who did not die: the survivor, or Final Girl. She is the one who encounters the mutilated bodies of her friends and perceives the full extent of the preceding horror and of her own peril; who is chased, cornered, wounded; whom we see scream, stagger, fall, rise, and scream again. She is abject terror personified. If her friends knew they were about to die only seconds before the event, the Final Girl lives with the knowledge for long minutes or hours. She alone looks death in the face."
Films Referenced:
Shadow of a Doubt (Hitchcock, 1943)
Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)
A Bay of Blood (Bava, 1971)
Black Christmas (Clark, 1974)
Halloween (Carpenter, 1978)
Friday the 13th (Cunningham, 1980)
Prom Night (1980)
Maniac (Lustig, 1980)
My Bloody Valentine (1981)
The Prowler (Zito, 1981)
Halloween II (Rosenthal, 1981)
The Burning (Maylam, 1981)
Madman (Giannone, 1982)
Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986)
Scream (Craven, 1996)
Scream 2 (Craven, 1997)
