Note: This thesis has been removed at the request of the author and with approval from the UC San Diego Graduate Division Dean. Abstract: Freshman year at college is hard : your roommate is weird, you're feeling homesick, and a serial killer is slashing girls' throats. If Lexi discovers what really happened to her old high school friend on that car ride to the movies, everything will be okay. In Hookman, an existential slasher comedy, Lexi and her friends learn what it means to grow up - and it's not pretty
