Men, Women and Chainsaws
Subtitle: Gender in the Modern Horror Film
Publisher: British Film Institute
Published: March 1992
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780851703312
Subjects: Gender studies; Film theory & criticism; Feminism
First sentence: AT THE BOTTOM of the horror heap lies the slasher (or splatter or shocker or stalker) film: the immensely generative story of a psychokiller who slashes to death a string of mostly female victims, one by one, until he is subdued or killed, usually by the one girl who has survived.