![]() ![]() ![]() While The Texas Chainsaw Massacre does have one of the more sympathetic villains because Leatherface has been so heavily manipulated by his family to be the way he is, the Atari 2600 game adaptation having the player chainsaw people to death as the main goal didn’t sit well in an era where games still carried a heavy stigma as being targeted towards children. It’s little surprise that early video game adaptations of slasher movies like the ones based on Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street have the player in the role of a regular human fighting against Jason and Freddy respectively, but one of the first games ever based on a horror movie actually had the player assume the role of the film’s villain. The slasher movie genre may draw in fans with its villains and their creative killing methods, but the plot structure of these horror movies are set up as if the audience is meant to root for the victims, the protagonists being the ones who fight against the crazed killers. ![]()
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