Film critic Timothy Shary notes in his book "Teen Movies: American Youth on Screen" (2012) that where "Halloween" introduced a "more subtle sexual curiosity within its morbid moral lesson," films such as "Friday the 13th" "capitali on the reactionary aspect of teen sexuality, slaughtering wholesale those youth who deigned to cross the threshold of sexual awareness." Commenting on the film's violence and sexuality, film scholar David J. Hogan notes that, "throughout the film, teenage boys are hideously dispatched, but not with the same buildup and attention to detail that Cunningham and makeup wiz Tom Savini reserved for nubile young girls."