Jarrett points out that the common villains in horror movies are frequently animals, or humans with exaggerated animal-like characteristics, such as giant claws or a taste for human flesh. And because I am a social worker, I have to ask what kinds of cultural scripts are also depicted in horror movies. And that's why I want to point to another piece, this one from last June's Sex Roles, called "On the Perils of Living Dangerously in the Slash Horror Film" examined one common trope in horror movies: The promiscuous girl gets killed. The researchers here examined 50 films, and concluded that yes, the more sexually active a female character is a horror movie, the more likely she will die, and the more violent and prolonged that death will be.
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