persephonbee:

narkomgay:

So I’ve seen the discourse on here about how slasher movies originated as a violent misogynist reaction to women’s liberation, and I gotta say in the case of one of the first slashers, Halloween, that wasn’t the case. John Carpenter has said he hates the reading of his film as an anti-promiscuity message. It was written in 10 days and filmed in two weeks one a shoestring budget because some producer asked him to make a movie about babysitters being murdered and the plot was just what him and his gf threw together in a short timespan. Carpenter would later make films with deliberate social and political messages, most famously with They Live. and I think that’s kinda interesting, how Johm Carpenter’s inadvertent creation of a work that could be viewed as socially conservative left this huge cultural impact, while his movie about class struggle gets its message muzzled and ignored.

I mean okay but just because you *and your girlfriend* came up with a violently misogynistic plot *quickly* doesn’t mean that it isn’t still violently misogynistic.

I dont think the OP’s point was that it wasnt so much as that Carpenter made other, better things that arent as well known and that is a shame.