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This is a useful starting point [source]:
Most of you are opting to examine your AS work which was mainly slasher, so a few quick pointers...
Although there were earlier antecedents, Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960) is the genre's archetype, laying down the basic template of sexually confused male killer, with the choice of weapon giving the genre its name. The knife also functions, according to psychoanalytic approaches to film theory, as a phallic object - rendering the attack with a knife as a symbolic rape.
Alongside Psycho, which attracted considerable controversy and an X-rating, even though shot in B+W, Micheal Powell's Peeping Tom is often neglected. Released in the same year, and arguably the superior film, Martin Scorsese has seen it recently re-released and remastered; such was the disgust
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