Representations Of Friday The 13th

In Friday the 13th, there are a lot of these representations you find in most slashers and it may have started some also, with the original friday the 13th, Alice Hardy is shown as the strongest woman on the film, the woman who survives, but that is because she has brown hair which apparently automatically makes you more intelligent  and braver than all the blonde girls who usually die first. This film can also be seen as different that other slashers as the antagonist is female, Mrs Voorhees, although she is portrayed as a a more male character. Mrs Voorhee's the killer in this film also only kills the young teens, male and female, who are sexually active or just having fun. and because of this Mrs Voorhee's see's them responsible for Jasons death as they weren't watching the children at the time, but instead having sex. This is the motive behind the killings.

In Friday the 13th, all the young women were shown as nothing more than sex objects, and shown half clothed and hyper-sexualized, I think this takes away the audiences ability to sympathise for them. And this is also the case in nearly all slasher films, as they usually show a direct cause and effect link between sex and death, and there horrific deaths symbolising a punishment for any kind of immoral intercourse.