Jeff McQueen's 2006 documentary film "Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film" goes into great detail as to what made a good slasher and dives deep into the genre's cultural meaning and impact. It also argues that the genre was petering out by the late 1980s, as endless sequels were making slashers' once-comforting banality seem less and less appealing. The early 1990s would have been the ideal time to bid the genre farewell with the on-screen conflict every gorehound wanted...

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