I feel the idea of it is also influential in itself; as in, people will happily assume anything that makes them uncomfortable is also Cautionary Tale Fiction
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yeah, essentially, revenge movies aren't horror!
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I’m reliably informed that it is when I do so I’m going with it?
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But this is one of those situations where “meanwhile: Cyrus” recursively proves the general rule in a way I… can’t quite articulate right now
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honestly my own take that carol clover was basically right: the essential libidinal moment of slasher horror is when a woman picks up a machete and hacks a man to death it's a passion play, where you start weak and victimized but overcome
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we can see this in the evolution of slashers, where yes of a certainty the original Final Girls were virginal and pure and their friends weren't but modern horror eschews that, often very deliberately yet the story still plays on the same goddamn beats it was never essential.
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