Slasher Girls & Monster Boys by April Genevieve Tucholke

You might be thinking: “Okay, that sounds just like any other slasher.

Eventually, someone wearing a yellow rain slicker and brandishing a pitchfork comes after the three daughters. Set at Christmas, three adult women’s ill father suspects his new wife is trying to kill him in Home for the Holidays. Another example is Alfred Hitchock’s classic Psycho. “Proto-slasher” is term used to describe horror films, mysteries, or thrillers with a few elements of a conventional slasher. This includes the important 1972 proto-slasher Home for the Holidays.

The late television mogul Aaron Spelling was behind some of the most remarkable genre telepics of the seventies. To retain some mystery, the assailants’ identities will not be disclosed. In celebration of Women in Horror Month this February, here is an assortment of slasher movies throughout the last fifty years that feature a woman behind the mask. What was considered a man’s “sport” was now an equal opportunity for either gender to exact revenge and employ various phallic weapons. This subversion of what was thought to be a standard of horror ended up handing the women-often the victims in these movies-back their power in a way. Followers of the genre as a whole know that this couldn’t be further from the truth.Ī number of these types of films, especially around the “golden age” of slashers from 1978 to 1984, switched things up by having women become the perpetrators. (Aug.Some people assume all slashers-the horror sub-genre where a disguised or themed killer traditionally picks off unsuspecting targets within a short period of time-always have a male killer. Agent: Joanna Volpe, New Leaf Literary & Media. With both variety and familiarity at play, there’s nary a clunker in the collection-this is satisfying, disturbing horror for the modern YA audience. Danielle Paige’s “The Dark, Scary Parts and All” adds romance to a mashup of two very different horror films, and Jay Kristoff’s “Sleepless” puts the knife to a disturbing online relationship. Tucholke’s “The Flicker, the Fingers, the Beat, the Sigh” pays homage to classic teen horror films, right down to the tragedy on a rainy night Cat Winters’s “Emmeline” is a haunting story of love and loss in wartime. Urban legends and ghost stories rub elbows with disturbing romances and bloody tales of revenge. Some references are expected ( Frankenstein leaves its mark in several stories), while others are less so- All Quiet on the Western Front, or songs by Nirvana and Mudvayne. In this gruesome collection of horror stories, 14 authors including Leigh Bardugo, Marie Lu, Jonathan Maberry, and Carrie Ryan take inspiration from movies, books, songs, and television, twisting, reworking, and combining them to create something terrifying and new.

Slasher Girls & Monster Boys by April Genevieve Tucholke