Men, Women, and Chain Saws

"Men, Women, and Chain Saws," first published in 1992, offers a groundbreaking examination of horror cinema from the mid-1970s, focusing on low-budget genres such as slasher, occult, and rape-revenge films. Carol Clover explores how these movies often align viewers with the tormented female characters, particularly the "final girls," rather than the male villains. This work has influenced both academic perspectives and mainstream filmmaking, and it is now available in a Princeton Classics edition with a new preface.