This article contains mild spoilers for "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma." In the seminal 1996 slasher, "Scream," Jamie Kennedy's Randy Meeks famously breaks down the core "rules" for surviving a slasher film. These fundamental truths are self-evident when it comes to what is arguably horror's most prolific subgenre, and have shaped the general public's understanding of how a slasher film functions. The "Scream" sequels expanded to more rules, but these guidelines were always a blueprint for survival, not insight into what a slasher film is on a fundamental level. While Clover's examination of gender in slasher cinema is admittedly a bit overreliant on Freudian psychology, her observations have become unspoken canon with every slasher film produced since.