She Came From the Woods: Everything You Need to Know About the Slasher Film

The horror genre is no stranger to films about summer camps where people invariably die in a variety of horrifying ways and the slasher subgenre of horror has regained popularity over the last decade.

To add to the list, the indie filmmaker Erik Bloomquist has turned his 1980s slasher homage short film, She Came From The Woods, into a feature-length title with a script co-written with his brother Carson Bloomquist.

She Came From The Woods uses the standard slasher clichés of the era in which it is set.

They are used by the Bloomquists to either increase tension or completely defy expectations.

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