FMS 394 Lesson 8SCREAM TEENS

What is the significance of the horror genre to teen film?

What is a “teen slasher film” and why do we see it emerge when we do?

How does Halloween (1978) critique ideals of suburban life and the sanctity of the nuclear family?

GUIDING QUESTIONS

1950s Horror Teenpics Exploitation films

Lurid Themes Low Budget

I Was A Teenage Werewolf Immensely profitable Launched careers

and its production company, AIP

Elements of other films

Spawned similar films

Blood of Dracula (1957)

TEENS AND HORROR

1957. Dir. Gene Fowler, Jr.

TEENS, HORROR, AND THE 1970S

TEEN SLASHER FILMS

Halloween (1978). Directed by John CarpenterCentered on teens and young people

Absence and impotence of adults

Horrors of adolescence

Senselessness of killings

Let's go to the mall...

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