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Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film: 1978-1986. Adam Rockoff. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2002.
The slasher film is not taken very seriously among film historians; film critics and even many horror film fans hold it in disdain. Considered the bastard child of the horror film, no other type of film has the bad reputation that the slasher film does. Despite such a reputation, the slasher movie has proved its economic worth at the box office, and its place in popular culture and film history is secure.
The slasher had its genesis in Halloween (1978), directed by John Carpenter. Rockoff rightly devotes a whole...
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