slasher films as we know them - post the original halloween movie in 1978 - were created in part as a response to the sexual revolution of the 60s and 70s as a kind of “subliminal birth control” for teenagers. because of this, characters who are more promiscuous and more open to talking about dating and/or sex are normally killed off grotesquely by the movie’s villain, while the less sex-focused main character makes it through victorious at the end. this dichotomy means surviving characters of the slasher genre can and have been seen as asexual coded. while the magnus archives is at its core a horror, the existence of the slaughter, the flesh, and even the hunt means there are also slasher elements present. therefore, to keep with the genre’s tradition, jonathan sims the archivist must make it through to the end, survive, and beat that motherfucker jonah magnus into the ground forever. in this essay i will