Halloween: Youth Cinema and the Horrors of Growing Up

This book argues that Halloween need not be the first nor the most influential youth slasher film for it to hold a special place in the history of youth cinema.

John Carpenter’s 1978 horror hit was once considered the be-all, end-all of teen slasher cinema and was regarded as the first, the best, and the most influential American slasher film. Recent revisions in film history, however, have challenged Halloween’s comfortable place in the canon of youth horror cinema. However, this book argue...