1) In the horror genre women were often shown as being weak and and powerless against the antagonist usually to be saved by the male hero, however in the 1970s many directors such as George A Romero decided to restructure how female characters were portrayed which led to them becoming stronger and started to be seen as the main protagonist actively trying to stop the threat.
2) The conventional stalk & slash film tends to follow a group of teenagers to somewhere remote where they drink, take drugs, have sex and so on. This usually then leads to each member of the group being picked off one by one until one is left to confront and defeat the murderer to reveal their identity and reasoning.
3) Slasher films were heavily marketed towards a young male audience with their extensive amounts of female nudity and gore.
4) At face value Slashers are taken to be basic and puerile entertainment for teenage boys however when you look into the moral values of the antagonist the ideas behind them become a lot more poignant with the idea that they instead show how the killer is punishing the teenagers for attempting to escape the social norm presented by their parents and adults, albeit very harshly.
5) The final girl is the concept of the last survivor of the killer's murdering spree will be a girl with qualities that set her apart from the others in the group, for example in the earlier stages of the film the final girl usually doesn't participate in the drinking etc and is instead distanced, this usually leads to her after all of her friends having been killed to trap confront and then kill the antagonist in a brutal way. Examples of this concept can be seen in films such as Friday the 13th (Cunningham, 1980), Nightmare on
Elm Street (Craven, 1984), and Scream (Craven 1996).
Good work Alex, just take out the underline and sort out the title, Highlighting key words would improve this too.
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