2025/07/30 by Marina Soler Jorge, A. Silva · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences · #Cinema and Media Studies #Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art #Gothic Literature and Media Analysis
paper · pdf · doi:10.31009/cc.2025.v13.i24.04
openalex publication_date 2025/07/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
This paper analyzes the slasher horror trilogy Fear Street (Leigh Janiak, 2021) from a comparative perspective, focusing on the genre’s conventions and its recent transformations. Each film in the trilogy references and appropriates different historical moments of horror cinema: the first part engages with the self-referential slasher of the 1990s, the second draws on the classic slasher of the 1970s, and the third hybridizes slasher and historical horror (witch films). We are particularly interested in examining how the slasher genre, as exemplified by Fear Street, has remained adaptable in response to shifting social sensibilities and demands for greater diversity and intertextual complexity in contemporary audiovisual narratives.