Most slasher movies were released somewhere in between 1970 and 1980, right around when second-wave feminism was really making an impact on society. Many critics will argue that these movies were, in fact, a response to the feminist movement. Whether or not these films have anything to do with feminism, it’s undeniable that the films are heavily misogynistic. In Silent Scream (1979), a woman looking for off-campus housing gets beaten up, gagged, tied up in a closet, then butchered with a knife. In Friday the 13th (1980), an independent female hitchhiking camp counselor winds up being stabbed to death after a long and vicious chase. What do these girls have in common? They were both acting as independent women, making their own decisions and
