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From: jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: slasher flicks
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Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 03:30:44 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 25 03:30:44 1985
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> 
> 	Though several people have mentioned that they don't go to
> the "Friday the 13th" type of movie because of the violence depicted,
> no one has yet mentioned how this type of film demeans women in a
> very particular way. In almost all of them, the victims are young women
> who "get theirs" because they are sexually active, or dare to show
> some independence. The audience is encouraged to take the viewpoint of
> the sicko killer, by using the killer's view as the camera angle (so
> that what one sees is what the killer "sees").

Yes, yes, yes!  I have felt this way about "Mad Slasher" movies for a long
time.  Not only that, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert agree with you.  They did
a show a while back on this type of movie, and made exactly the points you
make.

A few years ago I had HBO, and was amazed at the number of slasher movies
there were.  Fortunately, there seem not to be as many of them as there used
to be.
-- 
Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent..."

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