Representations in slasher films

The film i will be analysing representations of is John Carpenters Halloween. This film uses many of the classic slasher film representations as it is the film most modern slasher's are based on today. It was one of the first films to bring about the idea of the final girl who is often a morally correct brunette girl who succeeds in defeting the main villain in the film. Also there are scream queens in this film who get murderd early on due to the moral code of them paying for having sex/drug taking/drinking. This has succeeded in feminist critics like and dislike for the genre with the final girl being the heroine. However the murder of other women can be seen as misogenistic. Also the primary use of teens appeals to the target audience as is common with most slasher films. Still others have read deeper into the social significance of this and other slasher films as critiquing the supposed safety recently found by middle class individuals in the 1950s suburbs. Also critics say the portrayal of Myers as a demonic, superhuman monster inhibited his influence on the audience. However Carpenter himself dismisses the notion that Halloween is a morality play, regarding it as merely a horror movie.