Halloween Special! Ed Gein and Slasher Movies
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The Fear of Crime in the 80s
The Friday the 13th movies take place at summer camps. The Nightmare in Elestreet movies take place in this sort of unnamed idyllic suburbia. In a sense as being white in middle class and having no reason to suspect that your life is going to make you a victim of violent crime, we assume our lives are safe because they're cushioned.
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