In the movie Halloween the crazy killer is always a man who can’t be killed and is after young women who are dinky and can’t defend themselves. Some how their always have to be a sex scenes and that’s when you know someone is going to be killed. The men are in control of the women and tells them what to do and they do it. The movie makes it seem like women are worthless without a man. Men are usually saving the women from the bad guy in the movie. The movie portrayed that women make dumb decisions when facing life or death situations. The Halloween movie made Mike Myers just go after the women even though he killed a couple of guys but that’s because they was in his way to get to the girls. Why in a horror movie the women have to be the prey all the time. Are they saying that women can’t be equal to men when it comes to being physical? I think movies like Halloween favorite guys more than females because they think society will agree that’s how a movie should be made. Masculinity is dominate through out the United States is really what they are saying and if they switch the roles of the men and women in the movie it can’t be right. That would make females look more dominate than the males and I guess no one could believe women can do that. Myers is going after a specific crowd which is high school girls. Why not an older crowd of females? I assume that the movies exposes that young females are easy targets and can’t handle themselves in a dangerous situations. Then at the end of the movie when the girl is fighting Myers why did she stop stabbing him with the knife or defending herself, when she know he keeps getting back up why not run out the house once she gets him down. That’s what type of foolish things they had females doing in the movie. The movie didn’t have any guys doing dumb things like that. I conclude that horror movies are aimed at females’ weakness and males’ strength to save them. James Morrow
Alright, James. I like your point about how the men were killed just because they stood in the way of killing the women. I wondered, though, if you made any distinction between Laurie and the other girls or if you thought that all of them were portrayed poorly?