“Despite being the butt of many a joke during its salad days, the "bad thriller" has become a topic of serious scholarly debate. Dissertations and books have been devoted to the potential feministic undertones of movies like *Halloween* and *A Nightmare on Elm Street*. Carol Clover's *Men, Women and Chainsaws* (1993)-- one of the premiere works on the subject-- posited the notion of a so-called Fin”
