If there's more than one sin or minority to pick from then the Sorting Algorithm of Mortality comes into play.Įventually, there will be only one girl left standing, the Final Girl, normally the only "morally pure" member of the main cast. Once the audience has had a convincing demonstration of their (usually sexual) misdemeanours, they are spectacularly slaughtered. The victims are usually teenagers or young adults, all usually guilty of some minor to moderate vice, which may tie into motives of revenge on the killer's part.
Slasher movie killers are always human or entities that were human at some point who have been been transformed into remorseless killers and their actions can be seen as pure evil. The more explicitly supernatural killers will have powers that range from Super Strength (all the better to pull their victims through walls), the ability to appear in dreams and attack the dreamers, or other ghostly abilities. The corpses of their victims tend to be equally elusive a slasher killer can whisk away a fully-grown adult's body in seconds, leaving not a single drop of blood behind, or swiftly arrange all their victims into an elaborate tableau, without ever being seen lugging the dead bodies around. Many are borderline (or explicitly) supernatural, having the ability to appear and disappear as if by magic.
Slashers prefer melee weapons that let them get up close and personal with their victims and almost never use firearms. The killers, mostly driven by revenge, are also typically somewhat Made of Iron, at a minimum, and frequently Implacable to boot. Movies about near-indestructible Serial Killers stalking attractive young women, a combination that allows for buckets of gore and enough flesh to titillate.
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