![]() ![]() Her mother isn’t around, her father is abusive, and she’s attempted suicide in the past. My Heart Is a Chainsaw, too, deals with a native character in today’s world: Jade Daniels, a half-indigenous girl who is obsessed with slashers, perhaps because her own life is monstrous in a different way. Jones has been writing gorgeously weird horror for decades now, but broke into the mainstream in 2020 with his novel The Only Good Indians - winner of Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction - which follows four Native American men as they struggle to escape a supernatural entity from their childhood. ![]() ![]() My Heart Is a Chainsaw, by indigenous horror writer Stephen Graham Jones, is both an homage to this trope, the Final Girl, and a big old “fuck you” to the concept that only good girls can prevail. One of the most tired tropes in horror is, arguably, the virginal good girl who vanquishes the slasher at the end of the film, her sex-amped pals left mangled and bloody in the villain’s wake. ![]()
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