10 Reasons Why Slasher Movies Rule!
Aug 24 '04
The Bottom Line In 1957 Wisconsin, USA, a gruesome discovery was made at a farm and the resident, Ed Gein, changed the face of horror forever.
Psycho (1960)
Inspired by the crimes of Gein, including cannibalism and keeping his mother's corpse for company, this creepy thriller put an all-American face on horror and gave us our first slasher villain.
Black Christmas (1973)
Highly underrated horror set in a sorority house. Probably one of the best Christmas movies ever.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Also inspired by the Gein, five teenagers visiting the desecrated grave of their grandparents become victims of a deranged family of redundant slaughter house workers.
Halloween (1978)
The template for the 80's slasher phenomenon, John Carpenter's masterpiece also made steadicam the norm for filmmakers.
Friday The 13th (1980)
A group of camp counselors are picked off one by one by an unseen killer. Famous for it's gory murders, courtesy of Dawn Of The Dead's Tom Savini.
The Burning (1980)
The moment Friday The 13th came out so did a million imitations. This one one of the best.
Maniac (1980)
A killer roams the streets of New York, scalps women and then puts their hair on mannequins. Make up also done by Savini. Was banned for years in the UK.
A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)
Taking slasher movies in the fantasy genre as a burned killer with knives for fingers hunts down the children of those who burned him in their dreams.
Maniac Cop (1988)
A cop tries to track down a vigilante who is murdering people around the city, only to realize it is another cop. Featuring The Evil Dead's Bruce Campbell.
Shocker (1989)
The X Files' Mitch Pileggi stars as a serial killer who is given the electric chair, only to come back to kill again, this time jumping from body to body possessing his hosts.
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