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Week 2: Homework Prep Task 4

Teen Punishment
The film explores the theme of teen punishment, through the killing of the dumb blonde/prostitute. Due to her promiscuous ways and sexual nature the dumb blonde is killed off first in the movie, this is due to the religious aspects of horror movies, as it shows that she is killed for her sins. Also she dies as she is about to have sex with her boyfriend which is interesting, and gives a message to the audience.
Jules Dancing
The plan was for the virgin to live until the end, and for the other to die, as she is pure because she is still a virgin and they believe that she doesn’t need to be punished for any sins, as she has lived a good clean life.

Gender & Sexuality
The film shows the men of the group taking control and protecting the females, which reflects the patriarchal society that we live in as men are seen as superior and women are seen as inferior. Also the prostitute was punished for her sexual ways, whereas the men were not, also reflects the inequality of the patriarchal society that we live in.
Marty Saves Dana
Yonic and Phallic Imagery

Phallic imagery was used a lot in the movie. One example is when the unicorn kills the man with its horn on its forehead, this is an example of phallic imagery as the man’s belly represents the vagina and the hon represents the penis, its symbolising sexual intercourse. Yonic imagery was also used in the movie. It was used when the van went through the cave in the begining, this is Yonic because the van enters and the cave represents the vagina, as the vagina takes thing in. 

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