Abstract
This article discusses Christian morality in slasher films and sets out with the assumption that this type of morality manifests itself underlyingly in each narrative through the subjects of guilt and punishment. The discussion is based on the critical work of Nietzsche and Bataille, outlining a brief history of the influence of Christian morality in artworks that involve nudity and eroticism. The analysis of the objects – namely, the movies Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978); Friday the 13th (Sean Cunningham, 1982) and A Nightmare On Elm Street (Wes Craven, 1984) – employs the frame methodology developed by Kilpp (2003) and allow the exemplification of the relationship between the the discoveries of juvenile sexuality and its subsequent doom by the killer characters on the movies. Keywords: Slasher films. Guilt. Morality. Sex. Nudity.
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