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Originally Posted by BAKA  There's a brilliant book by Justin Kerswell called Teenage Wasteland (The Slasher Movie Book in the US) which traces the foundations of slasher films from the German Krimi to the Giallo and proto-slashers, looks at the history of the subgenre, covering the golden age in great detail. I consider it essential.
It's not wise to discount supernatural elements, because when the bubble was deflating in the mid-eighties supernatural slashers like A Nightmare On Elm Street revitalised the flagging subgenre. |
That's been on my wish list for a fair while that book, I hope to get it some day, as well as Nightmare USA.
As for supernatural elements, I was intending to include the first ANOES, but not the sequels.