Games of terror: Halloween, Friday the 13th, and the films of the stalker cycle

Abstract

A critical study of the low-budget film formula described as the stalker film, popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The discussion suggests reasons for its impressive popularity and demonstrates how a generic form is organized to speak a cultural text. Illustrated.

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