{"id":617,"date":"2018-10-11T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T15:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/10\/11\/the-teenage-slasher-movie-book\/"},"modified":"2018-10-11T15:42:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T15:42:00","slug":"the-teenage-slasher-movie-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/10\/11\/the-teenage-slasher-movie-book\/","title":{"rendered":"The Teenage Slasher Movie Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;ll find this surprising or not, but I do not watch horror movies. I just can&#8217;t handle it, they stick with me way too long. That said, I love reading about horror movies. I go online and read plot summaries, analysis, and reviews for tons of horror movies. Weird, right? I just feel the genre has a lot to offer. That&#8217;s why I agreed to read and review the 2nd revised and expanded edition of The Teenage Slasher Movie Bookby J.A. Kerswell. I will admit that I don&#8217;t normally look into the slasher subgenre, but just like the rest of the horror genre, the author showed me there are surprises to be found there.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/teen-slasher-cover-278x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13770\" \/>Have you heard of the gory, Italian, thrillers known as giallos? I hadn&#8217;t, but it turns out they played a huge role in the eventual teenage slasher film. I had no idea that many popular slasher movies came from Canada! Sure, now it seems all movies come from Canada, but the late 70&#8217;s, I had no clue. Also, I didn&#8217;t realize that Britain had previewed and censored all videos being released in the country. This delayed the release of many slasher movies in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Kerswell does an excellent job condensing the history and works of the genre into a fast paced read. He succeeds in striking the balance of treating the subject matter seriously while acknowledging how silly it can all be.<\/p>\n<p>With Kerswell&#8217;s authoritative writing and a dizzying amount of full color photos from films and movie posters, I can safely say The Teenage Slasher Movie Bookis a great resource for anyone interested in horror films.<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Teenage-Slasher-Movie-Revised-Expanded\/dp\/1620083078\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1537793014&#038;sr=8-1&#038;keywords=teenage+slasher+movie+book\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s October! Time to talk horror movies!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}