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
Halloween is interesting here, with Carpenter retconning that Laurie is the target of Michael Myers' obsession because she's his secret sister, and that Laurie's "loneliness" in the first movie wasn't so much about her "virtue" as making her and Michael Not So Different
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(One major asset to surviving a slasher movie is being the one victim who has the capacity to empathize with the monster, though whether that's actually "virtuous" is debatable)
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