Title: Sensible and Fun
Review: This is a very good book about a type of movie that has received very little critical attention, and most of the attention has been mere condemnation.Whitehead guides the reader to the best and most important of the slasher films. He provides plot summary and critique as to why the film is worth watching. He uses the idea of the "Final Girl," the last person left who confronts and overcomes the killer, to combat the charge of misogyny frequently leveled against slasher films.Whitehead also admits that a lot of slasher films are junk. Some of the films he covers, like Nightmare on Elm Street, aren't really slashers (at least in my view). But he writes in an acessible and enjoyable style that makes this a very helpful short guide to horror films of the 80s and 90s.
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