Stuart Kaminsky
Stuart Kaminsky is an american mystery writer and film professor born in 1934 in Chicago,Illinois and wrote over 60 novels including 3 successful series most notable the 'Inspector Rostnikov' series. He died on October 9th 2009 at the age of 75.
Kaminsky's theory stated that weapons in horror films are extensions of the people using them, there are no guns used in horror films as in slasher its focused around the gore meaning that guns are too clean, the only people in horrors who have guns are authority figures but they never use them effectively this comes with a few exceptions such as in the ending of the original scream. there are example of Kaminsky's theory in the majority of slasher films in which the weapon is the extension of the killer these include 'Friday the 13th' (1980), 'Halloween' (1978), 'Scream' (1996) and 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' (1974) but this is most notable in 'Nightmare on Elm Street' (1984) where the weapon used is a glove which is a true extension of the character, there are next to no scenes in which Freddy appears without is famous slasher glove. In conclusion the theory is simple stating in these films all the antagonists very rarely part from there weapons in a way making them part of the character.