Clasher Films: Pop Culture Analysis

The basic structure of this research was pop culture analysis; I would watch three slasher films and observe certain elements within the film in order to infer how they represented society 's values. In order to observe the cultural phenomenon of the slasher film in its purest form, I selected three slasher films from the genre 's early days of popularity. This was to ensure that I was getting an accurate representation of a slasher film before the genre was parodied and exploited. Many characters in recent horror films could be referred to as "genre savvy", actively pointing out horror movie cliches and such within the movie. This kind of film would not work as I was trying to observe these clichés when they were being played straight rather than for cultural reference of comedy (think Scream). My personal qualifications for a slasher movie in the context of this research was that the film had to be focused around either teens or young adults, featured a malicious presence in the form of a killer which was actively "hunting" the …show more content…
For example, in Halloween, Bob 's circumstances of death wouldn 't be that he just happened to walk downstairs. Rather, what I recorded was that he was drinking a beer after having sex with Lynda, because these main events were the connectors of the story which put him in the kitchen to be killed by Michael Meyers. This method was also important in order to determine if there were any cause-effect correlations between the characters ' behaviors and their deaths. Alongside "circumstances of murder", I also made sure to denote who the final survivor of each film was. The criteria for a "final survivor" is the character who, out of the targeted demographic is the last character standing and has some sort of confrontation with the villain at the climax of the