Halloween Special! Ed Gein and Slasher Movies
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The End of the Line for Phase One Slasher Movies
This is the moment when the serial killer really comes into his own as a character in American life. We become an amort of the genius serial killer with Hannibal Lecter and then we start looking for that figure in our true crime narratives. The psychopath diagnosis, or the word psychopath appearing in sort of American pop culture, really starts the silence of the lambs.
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