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Originally posted by Dr.Kelvinstein
The How Are Women Treated in Slasher Films thread has started on an interesting route, and I thought those ideas might be expanded upon here. The guys here generally tend to praise Freddy, Mchael, and an endless horde of interchangeable slashers that generally have one thing in common: they kill girls, usually with sharp, penetrating objects. I bet women have a whole different spin on the genre. I bet we'll find more pathos, dark romances, and doomed love (a favorite of Gothic novelists). So come on, enlighten us.

When Jane Austen wrote Northanger Abbey, her parody of the Gothic novel and the popular horror of her day, she said that it was a well understood fact that most of the genre's readers were young girls (Anne Radcilffe being the most popular novelist of the time), but I think it all branched off into another direction after the mysogony in Stoker's Dracula. Any comments?

The reason that I personally don't prefer "slashers" is that I tend to appreciate something with a little more creativity and imagination...NOT romance...You can keep the romance completely out of MY horror movies...Replace it with something bloody...Better yet...I prefer psychological terror overall (Still want the blood, guts, and gore, too though)