SCHIZOPHRENIC KILLERS ON THE SCREEN
THE WORD SCHIZOPHRENIA IMAGINES DISORDER, CRUEL, SICK.
In this light, many directors have created films that present a filmic persona as completely clinical as one would encounter in a psychiatric clinic. Examples of such an approach are films such as M (1930), Psycho (1960), The Peeping Tom (1960), Repulsion (1965) or Dressed to Kill (1980). Others of course, keeping the coarser elements (murderous rage, love for blood) of such violent behavior, created films with piles of corpses, with liters of blood and dozens of mutilated limbs. Films such as The Texas Chainshaw Massacre (1974), Halloween (1978), Friday the 13th (1980) and dozens of others that ran from the mid-70s to the mid-80s and commercially established the slasher, are shocking examples of this filmic, and for many, morbid, writing.
SCHIZOPHRENIC KILLERS ON THE SCREEN
This book includes two hundred films, the most representative of the genre, and is aimed both at those who love the slasher, as well as at the fans of cult films and "sick" subject matter - as well as at those who want to turn to a handbook for films thematically interesting or forgotten by time. Of course, it is also aimed at those who want to get a small dose of terror, just before falling into their bed to sleep, protected under the safe bedclothes. Good night…!