 For people who haven't read the book and are hearing the word victim and killer in the same sentence, can you explain a bit more about what you mean? What is Tali the victim of? He's a victim of two things. The first is he's a victim of a prank. Pranks are really important in the slasher. There's some terrible joke that goes awry and injures someone or permanently disfigures them or psychologically scars them. Ten years later at prom, they come back and get their vengeance. But he's also a victim in the sense that