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CONVENTIONS OF A SLASHER HORROR

Slasher film is one of the horror film genre typically involving a psychopathic killer stalking and killing a sequence of victims in a graphically violent manner, often with a cutting tool such as a chainsaw or scythe. Although the term "slasher" may be used as a generic term for any horror movie involving graphic acts of murder, the slasher as a genre has its own set of characteristics which set it apart from related genres. Stereotypically in slasher horror there is a killer who murders people with sharp objects, and a few themes and conventions that have become staples of the genre. Such as male killers, female/ teen victims, killer violent acts reflect the experience of a damaged journey through life, a specific event in killers life triggers this emotional outburst of violence, killer has specific targets as his victims; tend to be young, attractive and mostly to be seen as committing sins; for example, sex, drug and alcohol. The victims seem vulnerable and unaware of their surroundings, resulting them in being an easy prey for the killer. The last victim usually is a female who witnesses the violence and has been involved in a battle with the killer but escapes and eventually falls back into the hand of the killer. Consequently, results in injury fault or death.