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here's you essay paper :
in the 70's - 80's there were a slew of slasher movies made possible by the success of Hallowe'en.
Often mis-justified as morality plays ... (bad girls get killed, good girls survived to kill the bad guy)
riddled with cliched 2 dimentional characters.
(Dead Teenager films as Ebert calls them)
they gained popularity and stayed popular with the introduction of the home video wave.
There were 2 things in these movies .. inventive gory death scenes and young female breasts - which is all the target demographic seemed to require in a film.
Eventually even the home movie viewer's needs grew more sophisticated demanding more interesting and origional horror films (od which there were few)
In 2000's Wes Craven decided to have fun by parodying the slasher film for the fans of the genre making Scream - loaded with in jokes .. a (smug - some people here like to say) homage to the slasher films of the 70's- 80's.
Unfortunately this backfired and not only spawned the demand for 2 more sequels, but ANOTHER shit-pile of teen slasher movies (i still know ... urban legends..valentine ....etc) taking is right back into familiar territory - with less young female breasts thanks to the growing political correctness in North America where it's perfectly OK to slaughter people, but it's evil to show female nudity.
anything else you need to know ?
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