1. FMS 394 Lesson 8 SCREAM TEENS

2.  What is the significance of the horror genre to teen film?  What is a “teen slasher film” and why do we see it emerge when we do?  How does Halloween (1978) critique ideals of suburban life and the sanctity of the nuclear family? GUIDING QUESTIONS

3.  1950s Horror Teenpics  Exploitation films  Lurid Themes  Low Budget  I Was A Teenage Werewolf  Immensely profitable  Launched careers and its production company, AIP  Elements of other films  Spawned similar films  Blood of Dracula (1957) TEENS AND HORROR 1957. Dir. Gene Fowler, Jr.

4. TEENS, HORROR, AND THE 1970S

5. TEEN SLASHER FILMS  Halloween (1978). Directed by John Carpenter  Centered on teens and young people  Absence and impotence of adults  Horrors of adolescence  Senselessness of killings

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