You can't sneak a societal critique into a slasher flick without ultimately giving the audience the slasher flick they paid for.
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Avey and Panda's respective solo careers have continued unabated: Avey's band Slasher Flicks released Enter the Slasher House in 2014, and Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper was a critical hit last year.
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That's not just rare for a slasher series: It's unprecedented.
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It's a sultry, tense thriller scarier than any slasher film.
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Jessica Jones' first season is essentially an extended slasher movie.
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"Slasher" also scored more highly with critics than with audiences.
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Meadow Slasher would be morbid if it were not masterful.
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It's like a 90s slasher music video without the music.
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In "Friday the 13th" (1980) Jason's mother is the murderous slasher.
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She's a superhero, but he's put her in a slasher story.
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There's even an entire slasher franchise named after the very holiday.
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There's that glass box in New York City summoning slasher demons.
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Relive the gory days with this still-seasonally appropriate slasher flick.
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But he also mixes in some of the slasher genre, too.
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Rewind "Halloween" (1978), the quintessential slasher film, made John Carpenter famous.
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Perrotta is often called a satirist, but he's no Juvenalian slasher.
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It's gory and deranged, but also a strangely nostalgic slasher classic.
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Here's a rarity: a slasher parody as terrifying as what it mocks.
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Yet it also inspired the dozens of slasher films that followed it.
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This is the original John Carpenter slasher movie that spawned a franchise.
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So, we called Kent up to chat about her summer slasher flick.
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Check out season 3 of my Netflix series SLASHER premiering this summer.
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Plus, yeah, I love horror and slasher movies on top of that.
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It's rare to find a slasher where that isn't the final person.
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A self-described slasher in middle school, Guy grew into a sharpshooter.
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That's the best opening ever for the 40-year-old slasher series.
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It's probably time to revisit those Scream rules for surviving a slasher movie.
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Season 3 has shifted back toward the slasher storyline of the series' beginning.
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Oyinkan Braithwaite is rewriting the slasher novel, and man, does it look good.
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The original movie is often held up as the first true slasher film.
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It's now the second-highest-grossing entry in the 11-film slasher franchise.
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" His genius was apparent in the 22019s slasher "The Eyes of Laura Mars.
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Slasher films showing a lot of blood for blood's sake is kind of stupid.
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Some slasher movies attack the entire Valentine's Day enterprise in an overt, gruesome way.
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What the film isn't, at least in the traditional slasher movie sense, is scary.
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Here are the serial killer and slasher movies you should never, ever watch alone.
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Michael Myers challenges you to a slasher fight in this new 8-bit cinema.
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Everyone's worst nightmare feels all too real in this slasher flick's unforgettable trailer. 9.
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The conventions of the slasher are instantly familiar and are used to hilarious effect.
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A slasher classic that revitalized the genre, it's now in the National Film Registry.
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Ricardo: A Slasher Austin: No, Slooter is already a shoot– Ricardo: No that's Shlooter.
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Your previous work with Animal Collective/Slasher Flicks has generally had a narrative arc.
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He knows which moves slasher aficionados have come to expect, he anticipates, and he subverts.
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John Carpenter's formative slasher movie airs on AMC, alongside lots of other creepy Halloween offerings.
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And the idea of a "mad slasher" had been a staple of suspense for decades.
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Actors Paul Scheer, Katherine Cunningham, Y'lan Noel, and Rae Gray also appear in the slasher.
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He had never seen the previous two films and had little intrigue in slasher horror.
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Howe: There's this 70s film, Black Christmas, which is one of the first slasher films.
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It immediately felt fresh and relevant, while playing like a solid 80s supernatural slasher flick.
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If you're seeing Hell Fest for the slasher vibes, this won't do much for you.
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It is a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract, reported esports journalist Rod "Slasher" Breslau.
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They were trying to talk about generational trauma in the middle of a slasher movie.
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Universal and Blumhouse's slasher sequel launched in fifth place with $9.8 million over the weekend.
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It looks like a Pelican book on VHS soft porn slasher movie aesthetics or something.
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But the city's tabloids have taken note, giving the knife attacks front-page treatment with sensational headlines like, "Blade Runner: Mad Slasher Cuts Woman, Dashes Off," and "Cut and Run: New Slasher Strikes Fear in Subway," both of which ran in the New York Post.
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They're here to film Halloween, a sequel to Carpenter's 1978 slasher classic of the same name.
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When asked about the trajectory of slasher films after the original Halloween, Curtis didn't mince words.
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It's a mesmerizing arthouse film with no qualms about embracing jump scares and slasher-movie tropes.
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Unfortunately, sex in this series is usually about as fatal as it is in slasher movies.
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How can you possibly choose between the seemingly limitless monster movies, slasher flicks and paranormal adventures?
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"The idea of [Crawl] has a lot in common with the classic slasher movie," Scahill said.
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How did it feel to be pigeonholed like that back in the heyday of slasher movies?
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This looks like a story about a creepy-masked slasher hunting teens in the snowy woods.
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" Leah also starred in the slasher film "Sorority Row" as well as the CW's "The Originals.
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Or, of course, you could pick just about any slasher film, starting with John Carpenter's Halloween.
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Instead of a pared-back slasher film, this was a vast and buccaneering shoot-em-up.
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The popularity of "Halloween" in 1978 ($47 million) showed that slasher films could be a force.
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"Black Christmas," directed by Sophia Takal, is a #MeToo-minded rethink of a 1974 college slasher.
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The ninth season of American Horror Story brings the spirit of '80s slasher movies into 2019.
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SLASHER WALSH Walsh, a former pilot, took on the unions and slashed costs first at Ireland's Aer Lingus, where he became CEO in 2001, and then at British Airways, earning him the nickname Slasher Walsh in an industry he once characterised as a "fight for survival".
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"Psycho" Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 horror film was a classic and gave us an iconic slasher- shower scene.
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The slasher flick introduced Ghostface to the world and made its lasting mark by satirizing genre tropes.
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Happy Death Day is actually a great modern-day slasher film that doesn't take itself too seriously.
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The film works best when it embraces this B-grade-slasher-meets-mid-afternoon-soap-opera feel.
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"We used to only be about slasher movies," Murdy admitted, having helmed Halloween Horror Nights since 2004.
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Likewise, the protagonist "victims" of classic slasher films were known to turn the tables on their attackers.
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In classic slasher movies, the Final Girl emerges from an encounter with great evil, bloody but unbroken.
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"Pieces" (1982) is a Spanish-American slasher that's been panned, but it's also been called a "treasure."
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A mysterious killer takes over a teen summer camp in the classic slasher film, "Sleepaway Camp" (1983).
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Meadow Slasher (2017) is published by Black Ocean and is available from Amazon and other online booksellers.
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Can you talk about the role blood plays in pop culture, say, with vampire and slasher movies?
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Now if you're looking for slasher flicks that are less well-known, you won't need a subscription.
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The narrative of Stella and her friends abandons the book's taut economy for a meandering supernatural slasher.
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She had recently played a memorable role in the slasher movie "Scream," which came out in 1996.
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Who among us has sat through a slasher without yelling, "Don't open the door!" at least once?
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So: the guy who may be the villain of Takal's slasher remake is patterned after … Justice Kavanaugh?
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Looking for a festive slasher movie to push all those cheery holiday jingles out of your mind?
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She forgets the moral dimension of the '80s slasher: Those campers were murdered only when getting busy.
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And Mancini's three-decade-career in horror means he knows you can't keep a good slasher villain down.
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Universal and Blumhouse's R-rated slasher "Halloween" earned $11 million for a North American total of $150 million.
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That would be a pity, though, because the Groundhog Day-inspired slasher is a ridiculous amount of fun.
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It's a bit like finding the only escape car in a slasher movie but not having the keys.
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He has had credits on Fresh Off The Boat, Orphan Black, Slasher and Bad Blood among other series.
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So I really enjoyed that movie and it kicked off a kind of renaissance of the slasher genre.
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Matt Chapman, DigitalSpy: The second half of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom goes for a haunted house/slasher feel.
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In the Eighties there were magazines devoted to Horror Cinema and slasher films, such as Fangoria and Psychotronic.
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This slasher retread adds a cautionary tale about artificial intelligence, but its plausibility makes the character less scary.
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Stream Bob Clark's 1974 holiday slasher movie, or catch an animated journey to the North Pole by rail.
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Whether you're Spike Lee, Bong Joon Ho, or a maker of slasher films, you study Eisenstein, Truffaut, Scorsese.
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This trailer mostly highlights the slasher elements, but there's obviously a lot more for the film to explore.
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In this Finnish slasher film, four teenagers try to solve the case by reconstructing it minute by minute.
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So it's basically a fashion-boutique slash haunted-house slash slasher movie, set mostly in Paris and London.
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The real world is way scarier than any slasher film, and I'll take a distracting audiobook any day.
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It's a "third-person fantasy looter-slasher focused on melee combat" set in a brand-new fantasy universe.
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What happens to the women in slasher films has nothing in common with their own sunny, churchgoing lives.
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Midway through the horror comedy "Tragedy Girls," the director Tyler MacIntyre delivers this slasher movie's first real scare.
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There's a reason most slasher franchises focus on the killer continuing from movie to movie, rather than any survivors.
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Part slasher film, part psychological thriller, "Game Over" is an unsatisfying watch because Saravanan never quite picks a side.
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Despite being ostensibly about death, slasher films are concerned with the act of killing itself rather than the fallout.
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On Monday, American Horror Story: 1984 debuted its first full trailer and a glimpse at its mysterious slasher villain.
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But Clover developed the concept very specifically for the classic slasher flick, of which Halloween is the canonical exemplar.
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"American Horror Story" comes back for its ninth season, called "1984," which is inspired by 1980s horror-slasher movies.
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In keeping the project close to home, Portner also enlisted former Slasher Flicks collaborator Angel Deradoorian for the record.
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There's a masked slasher killing strippers, and Johnny has made it his personal mission to kill the mystery murderer.
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To Donald J. Trump and politicians like him, a late-term abortion is the stuff of '80s slasher films.
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He sets up his teammates, he uses his size to get rebounds, and he could be a potent slasher.
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And we mean all the way back, revisiting the slasher films that were a huge hit in the decade.
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"Tragedy Girls" updates the slasher genre by identifying personal branding as the horror that trends with the millennial teen.
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If you ever find yourself trapped in a slasher movie, Pete Davidson is the guy you want on your team.
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Christopher Landon's latest, Happy Death Day 2U, however, might be the first slasher that actually centers on dealing with grief.
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But HDD2U does more than scare us; it offers a glimpse into a deeper, more affecting, future for the slasher.
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The other classic slasher franchises may be failing, but lately, Chucky is making entertaining horror sequels look like child's play.
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Chucky quickly emerged as a new horror icon, notable for the way he stood out from his slasher villain contemporaries.
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A guest spot for slasher flick veteran Jennifer Love Hewitt as Jennifer Love Fefferman is the icing on the cake.
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It's not what people think it is: "Oh, you're doing a slasher, doing a horror film," they're a little condescending.
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Scream is a smart, funny slasher flick that involves a couple of high school relationships gone very, very, bloodily wrong.
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After pointing out that slasher movie heroines sometimes act silly, she is stabbed by Ghostface right in her movie seat.
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This is The Heathers—the teen slasher movie-referencing supergroup comprising queens Carmen Carrera, Raja, Delta Work and Manila Luzon.
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Instead, Clover suggested that slasher films make largely male audiences identify with the surviving "final girl," both narratively and cinematically.
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The team sequenced the genome using blood samples of two Komodo dragons housed at Zoo Atlanta, named Slasher and Rinca.
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This past weekend, Hell Fest kicked off the October slasher box office with more of a whimper than a scream.
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For others, a golden era of violent slasher flicks and thrash metal emerged against the backdrop of significant social change.
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Take away that connection and you're left with a formulaic slasher movie that no amount of clever stylization can cover.
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The equally frightened girl onscreen takes a sinister phone call from the slasher who is terrorizing an otherwise bucolic town.
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I mean, I grew up in the 80s and 90s, which was mostly the slasher, Freddy Krueger, and Jason era.
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Set in Lagos, the book is an incendiary mash-up of two unlikely genres: the slasher and the domestic novel.
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L.A. loves its gaudy killers and gives them fun names like the Dating Game Killer and the Skid Row Slasher.
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Justin would really get her moment when she did the score for survival slasher horror film The Final Terror (19683).
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It means lots of pumpkin beers, comfy couches, a dark room and all eleven sequels of your favorite slasher film franchise.
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While his victims were never as disposable as those in other slasher series are, Chucky himself was clearly the selling point.
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Somehow, a slasher sequel, that lowly art form, becomes equal parts science fiction, romantic dramedy, horror movie, and zany campus comedy.
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Its particular flavor of elaborate, genteel nightmare is unusual, but it's as effective as any jump-scare-laden, blood-spattered slasher.
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The show's ninth season, 1984, appears to be an homage to the slasher movies of that era, like Friday the 13th.
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A longtime devotee of the genre, Perkins recently published her first horror-themed slasher YA novel, There's Someone Inside Your House.
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You can go gothic or slasher, found footage or torture porn, classic monster or heady nightmare—the possibilities are practically endless.
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Bautista's lowest-rated movie goes to the comedic thriller, "LA Slasher," which he starred in with Danny Trejo and Mischa Barton.
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In Rotten Tomatoes' critics' consensus, they described the film as a "dim and predictable remake of an already dull slasher film."
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Slasher flicks—the junk food of the genre—found new settings and victims in the health club and its aspiring Adonises.
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The slasher genre has always been ripe for thoughtful provocation, but Cocuza is ultimately more Thomas Ligotti than New French Extremity.
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Austin "SlasheR" Liddicoat will move to the assault rifle (AR) role with Brandon "Dashy" Otell becoming a submachine gun (SMG) player.
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But this movie has none of the titillation or theatrical kills of a slasher picture; it's deliberate, melancholy and deceptively layered.
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His breakthrough came in 1998 with his screenplay for the slasher film "Urban Legend," which starred Jared Leto and Alicia Witt.
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A remake of a Christmas slasher-horror film isn't something you see every day, but it's gracing us this holiday season.
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Where Wade remade himself in James' presence as a slasher and secondary distributor, Irving hasn't yet altered his approach much at all.
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This article originally appeared on VICE UK. Fear is normally the dominant emotion in slasher films, or at least the intended one.
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They cover a gamut of esoteric and goofy references, from Coleridge in Pleasuredromes of Kublai Khan, to slasher movies in Drill Killer.
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Sure, there are so many elements of the movie that are absurd and illogical, but what slasher movie is free of those?
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The rewarding reappearance of Andy Barclay (Alex Vincent) makes the case for this kind of drawn-out storytelling, rare in slasher movies.
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Later, she makes a sudden rapped verse feel like the climax of a slasher film, coolly eviscerating her targets with terrifying ease.
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In the front, it jutted out of my pants and begged to be snagged by one of the weekly subway slasher/muggers.
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My Sister, The Serial KillerBy Oyinkan Braithwaite Out November 212011Oyinkan Braithwaite is rewriting the slasher novel, and man, does it look good.
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Few doubt, however, that Mr Walsh, who earned the nickname "Slasher Walsh" for his penchant for cost-cutting, still pulls the strings.
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Esports consultant Rod "Slasher" Breslau noted that the channel was live for at least two hours before being suspended by Twitch administrators.
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The one outright wrist-slasher was John Meyer's "After the Holidays," a plea to a departing lover to stay until New Year's.
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His other credits include the 1987 slasher film Return to Horror High and appearances in CHiPs, Fantasy Island and The Love Boat.
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His other credits include the 1987 slasher film Return to Horror High and appearances in CHiPs, Fantasy Island and The Love Boat.
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Like the heroine of a silent-era serial or a 1970s slasher flick, she takes a licking and just keeps on ticking.
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And though 1984's Brooke is much older than the typical teen slasher heroine — she's attending community college — she seems pretty regressed.
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Rose, at his athletic peak, was a slasher, a sharpened wedge; Westbrook is a battering ram that has been set on fire.
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Scream, released 20 years ago December 20, is a slasher, but it's also a parody of the genre films that came before it.
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This discovery is the main emotional anchor of the film, elevating it from a zany slasher-sci-fi hybrid into something else altogether.
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In many ways, Black Christmas is a departure from the villain-centered slasher franchises that would come to define this subgenre of horror.
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Black Christmas is one of the very few examples of the slasher genre where teens having sex isn't a template for bloody punishment.
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October 2018's roundup features Damien Chazelle's First Man, Venom, and yet another revival of Halloween and its Shatner-masked slasher Michael Myers.
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At first glance, a slasher flick like Halloween may not seem to have much in common with an art house film like Suspiria.
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The original Halloween has received criticism, like many slasher movies have, about having a moral agenda in regards to its "final girl" trope.
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Universal and Blumhouse's slasher film starring Jamie Lee Curtis picked up another $8063 million, marking a 2806 percent decline from its impressive debut.
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Universal and Blumhouse's slasher film starring Jamie Lee Curtis picked up another $32 million, marking a 20173 percent decline from its impressive debut.
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The slasher may be motivated by a slight or trauma incurred years earlier, springing up to wreak his revenge on a significant anniversary.
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Kane Hodder -- who's acted in slasher films since the early '80s -- posted this video, explaining why he's no longer comfortable with movie violence.
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After his run with side band the Slasher Flicks came to an end in 2014, Portner began recording music in his California home.
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When the guy who directed the Sharknado trilogy wants to make a virtual reality slasher flick, you don't skimp on the fake blood.
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But while she may represent a subversive response to 80s slasher flicks, the original Buffy Summers doesn't diverge much from popular sexist stereotypes.
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Audience Score: 22%Critic Score: 25%In this high-school-based slasher film, a series of suspicious deaths turn out to be murders.
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This year, it's Sophia Takal's remake of slasher flick Black Christmas designed to offer a reprieve from all those A Christmas Prince sequels.
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It would be fitting, of course, if Green's film ushered in the new age of the slasher, the way that its predecessor Halloween did.
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Though all slasher movies will make your stomach churn, it's easy to get bored watching a bloody film that's clearly cut from a mold.
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Over the phone, Curtis talked about the legacy of the slasher movie and why now felt like the perfect time to return to Haddonfield.
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Wandering around on tour follows the rules of a 90s teen slasher film: If the phones are dead, whatever you do, don't split up.
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My mom once told me that she didn't like slasher movies because, unlike supernatural monsters, there really are people who kill women with knives.
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We're very much inspired by 80s/90s slasher movies we felt a dark ending was necessary to add a little twist the vibrant video.
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"Grace" An altogether more lurid experience is offered by Pun Homchuen and Onusa Donsawai's "Grace," a Thai slasher movie with pretensions to social commentary.
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The slasher victims' deaths aren't particularly chuckle-worthy, but the short vignettes they star in leading up to Myers' horrifying appearances are memorably hilarious.
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We've seen some of that, but we've also seen Democrats praising Ronald Reagan, the archetypal tax-slasher, and bemoaning the lack of bipartisan compromise.
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A companion "Slasher" VR app, available for iOS or Android devices at the Chiller TV website, lets you choose your own interactive Executioner adventure.
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Even slasher films with no ties to religion often dabble in moralistic tropes against drugs, premarital sex, or doing anything the least bit salacious.
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In the opening, Steadicam shots around the grounds mimic the point of view of a slasher like Michael Myers or Freddy Krueger stalking prey.
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And we need her, because otherwise the filmmakers have little but a conventional slasher movie sprinkled with memory triggers and callbacks to its source.
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The movie is a reimagining of the 1988 slasher film of the same name, which gave birth to the killer doll known as Chucky.
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And there are multiple bizarre storytelling decisions, including a late-season homage to slasher films that is simultaneously played for horror and cutesy laughs.
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By the tranquil standards of poetry criticism, William Logan is a slasher, a burner, a brawler, a big-game hunter with a sleepless eye.
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Start with "My Bloody Valentine," a 1981 Canadian slasher film about a mining town besieged on Valentine's Day by a killer with a pickax.
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Tonally, it's a sometimes queasy mix of satire and slasher film, carried by an over-the-top performance from Stranger Things star Joe Keery.
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And thus, a slasher movie for the #MeToo movement is born, one where women take center stage in front of and behind the camera.
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School Spirit, a combination of The Breakfast Club and any generic slasher picture, has nothing notable to say about high school or masked murderers.
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But she won't even try it, because she has an irrational fear of being murdered in the woods, like in an '80s slasher flick.
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The photographs call on plenty of signposts from the visual history of slasher horror, with images that could be pulled straight from Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
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But he always comes back, stalking like a slasher, begging to be loved, or hovering like a bluff, bulky vampire waiting to devour her past.
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And speaking of Stephanie Perkins, next week, we're keeping Halloween alive by reading Stephanie Perkins' horror-themed slasher YA novel, There's Someone Inside Your House.
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Unlike other slasher villains, Michael has been mostly consistent: He's never embraced sarcasm and whimsy like Freddy Krueger, or gone to space like Jason Voorhees.
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But his long, grotesque scenes in a New Jersey slaughterhouse look like something you've seen only in the worst grindhouse slasher film on the shelf.
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Night Trap looks like a cheap slasher film, and its plays like one, too, with minimal input from the player shaping how the story progresses.
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"It isn't as binary as winning or losing," said Rod "Slasher" Breslau, longtime gaming and e-sports journalist formerly of ESPN and CBS Interactive's GameSpot.
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This is the plot of Sebastien Landry and Laurence Morais-Lagace's Game of Death, which follows in the grand tradition of pubescent fornication slasher movies.
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Critics compared the movie to the works of "Dressed to Kill" director Brian De Palma, with Hollywood Reporter calling it a "deliciously campy slasher flick".
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Horror heads, take heed: In the wake of the massive success of David Gordon Green's Halloween sequel, a new slasher reboot is heading our way.
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Robert Hy Gorman is best known for playing the sharp shooting Alex -- opposite Jennifer Aniston and Warwick Davis -- in the 1993 St. Paddy's slasher 'Leprechaun.
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There are also a few less familiar titles, like The Final Girls, a slasher comedy from 123 starring Taissa Farmiga, Nina Dobrev, and Alexander Ludwig.
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Shade names are to beauty products what creepy music is to slasher films: a vehicle that can be used to drive up the shock value.
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Meanwhile, producers separate the trembling herd into three rooms and Solo Round becomes what it was always meant to be: an all-out slasher movie.
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Critics rating: 8%"Prom Night" is a predictable slasher film full of clichés that doesn't elicit the suspense and fear that better horror films do.
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The latest installment of Ryan Murphy's anthology series will have an '80s slasher theme, which means the cast will sport mullets, headbands, and leg warmers.
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This Finnish slasher film is inspired by true, unsolved murders from the 1960s, which is never something people want to hear about a horror movie.
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The tagline from one of the posters for this '80s summer camp slasher says it all: "This summer if you're planning to go camping — Don't."
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Directed by the criminally underrated Joseph Kahn—a man who directed a time traveling, coming of age, meta-slasher about high school— ...Ready for it?
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The Halloween franchise and its resident boogeyman return this fall with Halloween, which sees serial slasher Myers escaped from prison and terrorizing victims once again.
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Just before the release of an updated "Halloween," we took a fresh look at the 1978 original — a founding father of the slasher film genre.
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In psychological terms, those gory slasher flicks are inheritors to classic films of containment and domestic tension, such as Hitchcock's Rear Window and Polanski's Repulsion.
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It's not Nosferatu in the corner, playing tricks on you (shout out to every millennial who remembers the Hash Slinging Slasher episode of SpongeBob SquarePants).
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The Gothic Lolita subculture-within-a-subculture takes this baby-meets-Victoriana style and adds slasher-red lips and smoky black eyeliner to the ensemble.
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Slasher Film Festival Strategy is the brainchild of one Christopher Ashley, a former punk turned labelrunner (he helms Foreign Sounds, a black metal/dark electronics concern).
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And he continued to lean into the humor that made Chucky a sassier alternative to the muted killers who usually stalked horny teens in slasher movies.
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There's the gruesome slasher, in which the protagonist yields a sharp tool toward (in these instances) lipomas or cysts on a person's back, neck, or face.
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It was a winking, knowing thread, heavily based in the tropes of the trashy slasher-movie genre brought to prominence by the Friday the 13th movies.
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Seminal slasher film Halloween opens from the killer Michael Myers' point of view, but by the end, we're hiding with Jamie Lee Curtis in the closet.
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This is an extremely well known trope that is mostly associated with films in the slasher subgenre of horror — but it's a trope for a reason.
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In the lead-up to Christmas, Nitehawk in Williamsburg is screening Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984), a controversial and beloved slasher film about a murderous Santa.
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By the fourth time Prince's work shows up, however, it's as if he's become a relentless killer from a slasher film, back for another wry deconstruction.
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After that, though, Halloween devolves into a fairly by-the-numbers slasher movie -- those numbers including a whole lot of gruesome deaths, mostly involving Allyson's classmates.
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It would make sense for the film to render its heroine as a heightened example of the slasher genre's favorite victims: women who survive because they're virtuous.
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A remake of 1974 slasher Black Christmas is in the works from Blumhouse, with the tale of stalked sorority girls getting a fun, feminist revamp, per Variety.
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A TV movie and a slasher at that, this forgotten gem features Sally Field, Julie Harris, Jessica Walter and the Sound of Music baroness herself, Eleanor Parker.
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When it comes to slasher villains of the '80s, Chucky stands alongside Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, and Michael Myers as the most iconic — just several feet below.
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Whatever the future holds for the Strode family, anyone with even a passing knowledge of the genre knows that you can't keep a good slasher villain down.
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Though she was funny as a mean sorority girl (and is still funny as a vexed slasher heroine), she deepens that performance with some unexpectedly emotional scenes.
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To find out, I consulted the experts themselves: Seven women renowned for their horror fiction, ranging from slasher tales to spectral stories in which mood outweighs gore.
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There's a fair bit of blood involved, but this isn't an ultra-gory splatter movie, so much as a form of a cat-and-mouse slasher movie.
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When the slasher is chasing a character, you can stupidly choose to hide under a bed — or not, and then deal with the consequences of either decision.
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Even in sub-genres of horror like the off-road slasher film—the cult classic The Hills Have Eyes would be an example—we see this imagery.
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Slasher flicks and torture porn have been cesspits of brutality, putting horrible female stereotypes through actual grinders and demeaning two-dimensional virgins to the point of parody.
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Writer/director/editor Xavier Coleman aims to highlight a tangible, less slasher-y horror: the plight that emerges when an urban neighborhood lacks community and displacement occurs.
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Carpenter's movie casts Jamie Lee Curtis (in her film debut) and Donald Pleasence as its main characters; Nick Castle plays the now-quintessential masked slasher, Michael Myers.
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" For the key role of Laurie, Mr. Carpenter cast Ms. Curtis, the 19-year-old daughter of Janet Leigh, star of Alfred Hitchcock's seminal slasher film "Psycho.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Joshua Marie Wilkinson's Meadow Slasher is a transcript from the abyss, the fourth of five titles in his No Volta series.
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Friday the 13th: The Game Play it on: Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox One Try and outrun Jason Voorhees in this video game based on the slasher classic.
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Or so says the 19-year-old Lauren (Kadijah Raquel) to her younger brother, Mark (Karl Green), after proposing a family fun night with a slasher video.
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They're great to put on at the end of a flight even if sheet masks make everyone look like a serial killer in a 1980s slasher film.
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Welch had dabbled in acting—he'd appeared as a victim in a low-budget slasher movie—thus, it followed, his raid on the restaurant had been staged.
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While this story is certainly something we've seen before in movies, the combination of Christmas, slasher, and urban legend isn't something that comes around a whole lot.
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From its nearly orgiastic societal frenzy over Satanic Panic, right down to its decadent, zany teen slasher movies, no decade was more surreally performative about its fears.
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There's also the fact that slasher movies turned the fear of women victims, cornered and powerless in the face of a man, into a spectacle for our entertainment.
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Billing himself as a horror photographer, Ewings' work plays out like a slasher flick, and he's quickly amassed a huge following on Facebook with over three million fans.
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As a lifelong horror fan who has watched way too many Final Destination films, I don't often find myself giddily gushing over the sequel to a slasher movie.
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After being criticized for spending too much time on lofty ideas in Prometheus, Scott seems to be teasing the audience with a heavy-handed wink to slasher films.
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Drawing from the Italian tradition of highly stylized slasher pictures known as giallo, the French husband and wife directorial team created this sensuous, sensual wisp of a film.
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Benjamin Walker (of "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson") plays Patrick Bateman, the Armani-clad slasher stockbroker who finds all sorts of enterprising uses for knives, axes and electric saws.
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The darkly funny, surreal comedy parodied the corny ensemble-oriented title themes of the 1970s and '80s sitcoms before spiraling into a bizarre slasher film that defied explanation.
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These pages of culinary abominations use the same tactics as gory slasher films to shock and awe the audience with scenes only stomach-able from a safe distance.
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It's sorta like how you end up rooting for the one likable character in a slasher movie, the person you hope does the sensible thing and runs away?
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The conservatism of the '80s produced slasher films like "Friday the 13th" in which the horniest couples got the ax first, and the virgin was the final girl.
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As the title suggests, this '80s slasher flick takes place at a summer camp where people begin dropping like flies after an introverted girl named Angela shows up.
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The result is a series comprised of stand-alone genre movies—slasher movie, action flick, film noir, fantastical drama—and one that is entirely unique in Hollywood cinema.
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Books of The Times In slasher films, there's a famous convention in which the last woman alive faces down the killer — Jamie Lee Curtis in "Halloween," for example.
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Even his female slasher victims have more substance than their bumbling boyfriends (if the male protagonists of House had listened to their girlfriends, they'd be alive right now).
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A film that's much smarter than it looks, The Cabin in the Woods is the ultimate slasher/monster movie homage, without being a schlocky parody like Scary Movie.
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But when The Wrap asked Minear if this homage to '80s slasher films was thanks to the renewed popularity of Halloween and its ilk, he made us think twice.
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Slasher audiences are never around to see what it must be like to re-negotiate your reality when everyone you loved has been killed, and you nearly were too.
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Riverdale creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's script is a meta meditation on the slasher, and director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon helps turn the film into a worthy entry in the genre.
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Whether it's Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, The Shining, or most of the slasher movies that we know … the female experience is really kind of central to the horror genre.
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Evans isn't out to make a Halloween horror film — this is more thriller than slasher — but the body parts pile up quickly, and the violence is intense and shocking.
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Slice, the seemingly campy and bizarre slasher-comedy that stars Chance The Rapper as a pizza delivery boy who also happens to be a werewolf, was released this morning.
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"The first time I knew it was a slasher movie was when I bought my popcorn and bought my ticket and excitedly walked into the theater," Ms. Duncan said.
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The 1990s marked a revitalization of the horror genre and "Scream" has often been cited as the movie that sparked the resurgence of love and appreciation for slasher films.
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Some folklorists align the current clown scare with other stories of "phantom attackers," like the Phantom Slasher of Taipei from the 1950s or the Mad Gasser of Mattoon, Ill.
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Each episode has something for everyone: a little sci-fi philosophy here, a little Wild West shootout there, a sprinkle of robo-human romance, a dash of slasher horror.
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What Mr. Shyamalan wants is to strip them down to their underwear and to explore, exploit and occasionally subvert the basic tropes of the female-victim psycho-slasher movie.
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In this golden age of horror, when's the last time you went to the theater to see a scary movie and were rewarded with your average middlebrow doofy slasher?
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This is why slasher movies don't have much of an impact on me: if the bodies piling up are largely interchangeable and anonymous, I can't get concerned about who's dying.
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His stunningly large and varied back catalogue—featuring many a lost soundtrack to retrofuturist teen slasher VHS flicks—makes him one of European electronic music's most beloved and eccentric figures.
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Its surprising success sparked the slasher boom of the '280s, inspiring movies like Friday the 22018th and A Nightmare on Elm Street, which became massively successful franchises of their own.
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But there's no question the slasher got progressively dumber after its heyday and again after its late-'90s resurgence, and the genre as a whole has fallen out of favor.
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Slasher flicks remain the one trend-impervious box-office bet, as recently proven by the umpteenth Halloween's resounding success, yet this comes at the cost of some measure of homogenization.
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Halloween season is finally upon us, so you might expect your streaming service of choice to be filled with dozens of new slasher flicks, gothic thrillers, and serial killer movies.
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The film puts a comedic, Groundhog Day twist onto a classic slasher flick, leading to something that looks a whole lot more fun to watch than the average horror movie.
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The book responded to a common reading of horror (and particularly slasher) films of the '70s and '80s: that they were misogynistic invitations for men to torment women by proxy.
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At the time Teeth came out, studios were trying to replicate the success of torture-porn slasher franchises like Saw; Saw 3 came out a year before Teeth's Sundance premiere.
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Recall that high-rise thriller episode that looked like it was filmed as one long take, for example, or the series's perfect simulacra of 1990s sitcoms and 1980s slasher films.
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Puppet Combo, a one-person studio run by Ben Cocuza with a love for VHS grain and slasher flicks, creates deeply unsettling games that focus on largely non-supernatural horrors.
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John Reis has almost as many nicknames—Speedo, The Swami, Slasher—as he has bands, whether that's Rocket From The Crypt, Hot Snakes, The Night Marchers, or Drive Like Jehu.
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Like "video nasty" or "slasher films," torture porn is an inherently negative and reductive term—it fuses pornography and torture, rendering any film with this label as cheap and dismissible.
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All of this is neatly tied up by the revealer at 25D, SLASHER FILM, which is normally a phrase that describes a movie with a lot of carnage in it.
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There are so-called vampire facials, LED light masks that make wearers look as if they're in a slasher film and fish that nibble your dead skin during a pedicure.
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Before Bob Clark made "A Christmas Story," the gift of holiday programming that keeps on giving, he directed this slasher film that has a decidedly deadlier take on the holiday.
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He's kind of a slasher at the plate who's going to hit the ball all over the yard, take competitive at-bats and be a real threat on the basepaths.
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According to United States intelligence, Prince Mohammed had ordered Mr. Khashoggi's death, which his men carried out with slasher-flick aplomb, reportedly using a bone saw to dismember his body.
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Another slasher, this one is probably most famous for creating a controversy when the movie-going public objected to the idea of someone dressing up as Santa Claus and killing people.
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Halloween also helped establish the rules of the slasher genre — the hulking, silent masked killer; the horny, boozing teens who serve as cannon fodder; and the one innocent girl who survives.
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It's a setting out of a Halloween movie, except instead of a masked slasher, Andre's afraid of getting shot by the cops because a panicked local assumed he was a threat.
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Genre fans who've only ever watched post-Halloween slasher movies may need to adjust their expectations for Silent Night, Bloody Night, which isn't aiming to be a white-knuckle scare-fest.
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That said, it would've been easy for Into the Dark to kick off with some generic slasher film, loaded up with Halloween-friendly jump-scares and good-looking young murder victims.
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Having wrapped production on Ryan Murphy's campy co-ed slasher series Scream Queens, the former child star is putting more time into her music career and prepping for an upcoming album.
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But that would be facile, and would also mean that Michelle had been in a standard slasher movie, where arbitrarily bad things happen to random people, and nothing much is learned.
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Blood Bitch, being about vampires and blood, takes a subtle turn toward the pulsing electronic textures of the late 1970s and 80s, the broad sinewaves of exploitation and slasher film soundtracks.
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It kickstarted the wave of 1980s slasher films like Nightmare on Elm Street and laid out an entire rubric of rules for the genre, which movies like Scream would later lampoon.
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By the looks of the trailer, the series will have an '80s slasher theme, which means the cast will sport mullets, headbands, leg warmers, and other iconic looks from the era.
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I don't know if Halloween — the 703th entry in the horror franchise that codified the rules of the slasher subgenre — is a good movie, but I know it's a cathartic one.
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The 20103s The slasher genre came into its own in the '80s, with the introduction of Jason in "Friday the 13th" (1980) and Freddy in "A Nightmare on Elm Street" (2415.9).
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Universal's slasher sequel was No. 1 at the box office for a second week and grossed an estimated $32 million this weekend, bringing its North American total to about $126.7 million.
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Rewind The 1973 slasher film "Sisters," digitally restored and playing at the Quad Cinema, as well as streaming on services like FilmStruck, was Brian De Palma's first homage to Alfred Hitchcock.
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The rules are somewhat trivial (don't you dare say "I'll be right back" or go hook up in the woods), but any slasher fan will tell you that they're also wildly accurate.
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However, that less-than-stellar premise belies the fact that this comedy-slasher boasts an oddly eclectic cast that includes Fran Drescher, Chris Kattan, Rebecca Gayheart, Dave Thomas and Emilie de Ravin.
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The Happy Death Day films are pushing slashers into new stylistic territories, but they're also beginning to examine what it means to be a slasher film and to fetishize violence against women.
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You need Black Christmas, a Canadian horror film made by director Bob Clark in 1974 on a shoestring budget (about $700,000), four whole years before Halloween supposedly kicked off the slasher genre.
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The first film in that series, Alien, is more of a horror film — a kind of science fiction riff on the same late-'70s slasher-movie formula found in films like Halloween.
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The veteran actress is filming a trashy Christmas slasher movie when she's interrupted by Madison (Emma Roberts) because the impending doom being brought on by Michael requires all witchy hands on deck.
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It's part slasher flick, part home invasion thriller, and its alligator theme offers a much-needed reprieve from the shark movies that Hollywood seems to crank out like soft-serve every summer.
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The vertical brings veteran esports writers and editors to the sports media giant, including Rod "Slasher" Breslau, who has covered the field for more than a decade, Darin Kwilinski and Tyler Erzberger.
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A true slasher film pits a violent maniac, usually male and blade-wielding and unstoppable, against a group of teens who succumb one by one, according to a kind of moral sequence.
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Here's why you need enhanced memory Timothée Chalamet is a reluctant ruler in the first Netflix trailer for 'The King' 'American Horror Story: 1984' goes full slasher in campy trailer
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The fantastic Shriek of the Mutilated (1974) follows a standard slasher narrative: A group of attractive students (check) travels to a remote location (check) where they are all slowly killed off (check).
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When the characters die one by one in a patterning that is basically identical to a slasher film, the group mentality is the one that the viewer is meant to identify with.
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However, Carpenter's tale did serve to mainstream both the slasher film and the Final Girl, thanks largely to the magnetism of Jamie Lee Curtis as the canny, if mostly helpless, Laurie Strode.
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We think his aggressiveness will be able to help us get some more kills around the map while simultaneously letting SlasheR, who is another traditional main AR player, control those power positions.
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If you view the whole history of their respective records in context, the Sanders camp is going too far in trying to pitch Biden as some kind of fanatical Social Security slasher.
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Brian De Palma first used the Steadicam, with Mr. Brown as an operator, in "Blow Out" (1981) for the opening sequence, an elaborate horror movie parody in which a slasher attacks coeds.
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Olay -- The company's first Super Bowl ad -- a horror-movie spoof featuring scream queen Sarah Michelle Gellar -- wasted that casting coup, where even the slasher wants to discuss her great-looking skin.
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" The frightening side of fairy tales always appealed to her: "Being afraid of a wicked queen or a robber bridegroom is delicious and distant, miles away from, say, watching a slasher flick.
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Ryan Murphy revealed Wednesday morning that season 9 of American Horror Story will be called 1984 and appears to be an homage to the slasher movies of that era, like Friday the 13th.
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As a fervent lover of the entire slasher saga—shout out to the Busta Rhymes and Tyra Banks days—I naturally want to throw my own two cents in on the sequel assessment.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads For some people, it's slasher films, and for some, it's corn mazes, but on this spookiest day of the year, everyone deserves to experience a little terror.
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Three seasons in, The Atlantic even credited Pretty Little Liars with reinventing the slasher for TV. Scream Queens creator Ryan Murphy might owe PLL creator I. Marlene King a curt nod for that.
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These are the questions at the center of the recently released Gen-Z slasher film Assassination Nation, when an anonymous hacker suddenly bares an entire town's electronic secrets open for all to see.
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Kyrie Irving was needed for only 23 minutes of action, but in that time, he played the slasher/scorer/facilitator role to perfection, getting to the line and keeping the entire squad involved.
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Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare is a fairly paint-by-numbers slasher flick about an unfortunate band getting killed off until (twist!) it's revealed at the end that Satan is behind the whole thing.
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Excuse the morbidity of what I'm about to say — and if you hate slasher flicks and/or spoilers, you may want to stop reading now — but I love, love, love the Scream franchise.
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Notable only for the involvement of the genre pillar Wes Craven (who died last year and is credited as an executive producer), this sad slasher is as lacking in scares as in ideas.
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Gearbox and Counterplay Games have just announced Godfall at The Game Awards, a "third-person fantasy looter-slasher focused on melee combat" that marks the first game announced for Sony's upcoming PlayStation 5.
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" There are also international pictures, such as the 2003 French nouvelle-slasher flick "High Tension" and the 2007 Japanese period ghost story "Kaidan," directed by Hideo Nakata, who made the 1998 classic "Ringu.
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His films Stitches (2012) and Dead Meat (2004) are frequently cited as must-see slasher flicks, but his latest feature film, From the Dark (2014), is a whole housefull of non-stop terror.
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In those days, neo-pagans began celebrating the customs of Yule, and by the 1970s, you began seeing an even more nihilistic response with Christmas slasher films like Black Christmas or Christmas Evil.
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The Weeknd, represented by his human self, Abel Tesafaye, and a black leopard apparently named Murphy, encounters a mysterious enemy to a violent end in is his new 12 minute video/mini slasher flick.
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Stalking into theaters a full four years before Michael Meyers started bothering babysitters in Halloween, this slasher has Margot Kidder, Olivia Hussey and Andrea Martin playing sorority girls fleeing a mystery killer during Christmas.
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It certainly looks like American Horror Story: 1984 will be an homage to the iconic slasher flicks of the '80s, such as Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street, in which case: Bring.
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But the title doesn't just place us in the 80s where the clothes are bad but the hair is worse, it places us within the bloody, breathless (and increasingly feminist) world of slasher movies.
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Grief is almost antithetical to the point of a slasher, and yet Happy Death Day 2U gets around this by shifting the focus from the killer onto the emotional fallout of its final girl.
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Happy Death Day 2U isn't the only slasher released in the past year that provides a meta-commentary on the resilience of women in horror and the trauma the final girl is left with.
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" Reviews for Cult of Chucky have been even more positive than they were for Curse of Chucky: The Hollywood Reporter called the film "part self-spoofing slasher, part lowbrow bloodbath and all guilty pleasure.
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Altogether, Kahn's made three films, including 2004's self-aware Fast and the Furious-but-with-motorcycles riff Torque, and the 2011 teen-comedy-slasher genre mashup Detention, which, like Bodied, he funded himself.
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Now, with 2018's Halloween and the return of the most prototypical final girl, Jamie Lee Curtis' Laurie Strode has ushered in a new kind of slasher flick for the horrors uncovered by #MeToo.
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There's a lot more to the story, however, and with one big reveal, Better Watch Out transforms from a reasonably competent slasher to a truly terrifying horror film about toxic masculinity and male entitlement.
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Other films on Box Office Mojo's list, which has separated the films into the supernatural horror category as opposed to simply slasher flicks, includes The Blair Witch Project, The Ring, and What Lies Beneath.
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We've gotten menacing camp vibes from American Horror Story before—shout out to Twisty's cool-as-hell trailer setup in Freak Show—but the series has never fully committed to this sleepaway slasher trope.
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It's a slasher-flick variation on the sex lives of ordinary teens, during a stage when people often take risks because they don't know what they want, other than for something major to happen.
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There are times when you watch it with your eyes half-covered, like a horror movie, because the specter of failure pursues Pied Piper as relentlessly as a slasher villain in a hockey mask.
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The original "Friday the 13th" inspired countless knockoff slasher films that tried, and usually failed, to recapture the terror that unfolded at Camp Crystal Lake years after a young boy named Jason Voorhees drowned.
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Of course, every good slasher film has a sequel, and there are several in the works in this case with the calls for Mueller, Rosenstein, and former White House counsel Don McGahn to testify.
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"I don't want or like real death," he says This aversion to death probably corresponds to how many fetishers on boards like DeadSkirts believe they developed their kink watching old exploitation or slasher movies.
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Slasher films of the 80's such as A Nightmare on Elm Street vicariously mirrored Cold War fears and torture porn's boom coincided with 9/11, the War on Terror and the Iraq war.
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But they've got a weirder, wilder streak as well, as evidenced in some of their features (including the pseudo-slasher movie Baghead and the sci-fi drama The One I Love, which they produced).
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This year saw the release of a tight, thrilling, and thoroughly campy slasher flick masquerading as a sci-fi film that drew from one of the most iconic alien-based franchises in film history.
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Bava was a founding father of the slasher film: His "Blood and Black Lace" (July 16 and 25), from 1964, is a dazzlingly art-directed account of fashion models stalked by a homicidal predator.
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I think it could be a similarly atmospheric exploration of any of the other things that informed that era, whether it was Satanic Panic, or UFO conspiracies, or kidnappings or what have you, slasher movies.
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The almost total absence of the slasher in 2018 is, in part, a sign of changing tastes: Audiences now seem to prefer supernatural stories, like the ghosts and demons of the Insidious and Conjuring franchises.
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Although he no longer lashes out at the league the way he did in the early days of Deflategate — his style is to be a conciliator, not a slasher — he is said to feel betrayed.
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This isn't the first time in recent years that Friday the 13th — which hit theaters in 1980, two years after John Carpenter's Halloween breathed new life into the slasher subgenre — was considered for a reboot.
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At the very end of the movie, that not-so-little boy Jason — who would become the iconic "face" of the franchise in a hockey mask — shows up to reveal the film's supernatural slasher element.
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While "fire" and "space" are two words we typically only associate in the context of science fiction slasher films, NASA would like to recreate this particular disaster in an expendable spacecraft to see what happens.
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Technically, it's an R, given the pervasive, messy bloodshed: arms get hacked off, heads get cleaved open, and so forth, all as part of the slasher genre's usual reverence for particularly over-the-top kills.
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Universal and Blumhouse's slasher sequel launched in fifth place with $9.8 million over the weekend Its $11.4 million bounty since opening on Wednesday is almost half of what tracking services estimated heading into the weekend.
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For this ad to make sense to a viewer, the viewer must be familiar with Gellar's reputation as a scream queen and some general conventions of slasher movies — two things that were crystallized decades ago.
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The first comes from Agent DiPierro, talking to Darlene about "The Careful Massacre of the Bourgeoisie," the fake slasher movie that served as a sort of tonal Rosetta Stone for the season's horror-movie vibe.
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For every leotard-heavy Jane Fonda workout tape or Olivia Newton John music video, there was a student getting crushed to death by a barbell, like in the Canadian slasher Happy Birthday to Me (20173).
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Two years ago, the Miami Heat traded several draft picks for Dragic, thinking he was the drive-and-kick slasher they desperately needed to lift Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, and Hassan Whiteside to the Finals.
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The famous house used in the first "Scream" slasher film is going out with a bang ... with a Halloween party offering die-hard fans their last chance to get scared by Ghostface ... for a price.
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One of the first films to jump onto the slasher craze right after "Scream" was released, "I Know What You Did Last Summer" is one of the more decent scary movies in the late 90s.
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Happy Death Day 2U goes further than its predecessor, questioning what it means to make a slasher sequel and what it means to be a final girl after the killer is caught and the credits roll.
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The duo's getaway car is a vintage Murder Man car straight from a '70s slasher flick, not too terribly far off visually from the 1970 Dodge Challenger driven by Tracie Thoms in 2007's Death Proof.
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If you despise slasher films, hate any scene that'll make you toss your popcorn, and flee spooky previews let alone full-length fright fests, then here's something really terrifying: Hollywood's horror industry is coming for you.
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On top of that, this month saw Zombie drop his sixth theatrically-released film 31, a crowdfunded slasher epic about a group of carnies trying to escape a gang of killer clowns the night before Halloween.
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The return of the iconic "Ghostface" killer (who was made famous in the 1996 slasher film and franchise of the same name) will mark the first time the mask will be shown in a TV series.
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While the film itself isn't any worse than your run-of-the-mill slasher, Silent Night, Deadly Night actually scared a whole lot of people when it was released, thanks to early adventures in film marketing.
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This week on the MashReads Podcast, we read and discuss Stephanie Perkins' new book There's Someone Inside Your House, a YA homage to classic slasher movies like Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer.
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Forty years (and nine sequels and remakes) later, John Carpenter's classic slasher film got yet another update, one that reprised Jamie Lee Curtis's role as the baby sitter who survived a killing spree on Halloween night.
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Aniston, who next stars in Apple's The Morning Show with Reese Witherspoon, recently stopped by SiriusXM's The Howard Stern Show where she looked back on her career, including her appearance in the 1993 slasher film Leprechaun.
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And though that's an easy first comparison, a lot of the work depicts a more gleeful approach to violence reminiscent of obscure slasher movies like Happy Birthday to Me and the modern filmic output of Rob Zombie.
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The trope of the final girl — you know, the last one standing in horror movies, who either simply survives or also kills the villain that murdered all her friends — didn't just define the slasher formula for decades.
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But alongside predictable choices like Spider-Man and Elsa, the regular cast includes the killer from bloody slasher film Scream, and a cartoon Joker who looks specifically like Heath Ledger's dark live-action interpretation of the character.
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On Wednesday, the Slasher actor (and now boxing coach!) hosted a private boxing/sparring class called "The Lunch Punch" at Tapout Fitness in Woodland Hills – and opened up to PEOPLE about why it was important to him.
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These include privatising inefficient state companies (a one-off deficit-slasher), further cutting subsidised lending (which distorts credit markets and monetary policy) and simplifying a regressive tax system that gives 4% of GDP in concessions to businesses.
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The Halloween franchise, which sparked a booming subgenre of slasher horror that's endured over the decades (Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream are just a few of its descendants) wasn't always heralded as feminist.
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The new version of the horror classic looks like it will still have that dark, weird slasher vibe that fans of the 1988 original know and love (or hate), just with a completely new team behind it.
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For the last few months, she's been watching Nazi exploitation films, gory slasher movies, and porny art house cinema from the comfort of her living room, to pick films for the cinema's latest themed season, Cheap Thrills.
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But for as dumb as the slasher episode is — and it's so dumb — it at least gets the series to a place where it can explore one of its favorite themes, the difference between justice and mercy.
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Spring break is the target in this under-the-radar oddity that marries the slasher film and the beach party flick, two genres that share a love of "naked girls and stupidity," as one critic put it.
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My best guess is the horror-film slasher who first wore the money-man mask that Elliot's collective fsociety adopted as a symbol, but I'm perfectly happy to have no real idea until the show reveals it.
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I wanted women to have a fun female villain to identify with, and I also wanted for men to see a movie where romantically or sexually disappointing men are killed, reversing gender tropes in typical slasher films.
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Price: $60.92 on Amazon You know that thing where you're watching a horror movie and the dumbass soon-to-be slasher victim hides under the bed when there's a perfectly good door to escape through five feet away?
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See also: The 22018 Best Albums of 221 | The 236 Best Songs of 230 A slasher flick-themed hardcore record would typically suffer a fate worse than high school sweethearts taking a midnight skippy dip at Murder Lake.
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The sequel to Blumhouse's 2017 time-loop thriller Happy Death Day (basically a slasher Groundhog Day) does pause during its first half-hour to recap the original film for any uninitiated viewers, but that's not its first priority.
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There is the sound of something ripping, a scream and then a cut to the spattering of blood on the side of the tub, like a shot from a slasher flick in which all the horror is implied.
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Sixteen years after Curtis was unceremoniously killed off as Laurie Strode in Halloween: Resurrection, her character's, uh, resurrection in the quasi-reboot Halloween opened with a gargantuan $2304.1 million domestically, the best debut ever for a slasher movie.
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The studio's witchy hack-and-slasher, Bayonetta, was a critical darling in 2009, the recipient of countless close-to-perfect review scores—but it didn't do the numbers that either its publisher Sega, or Platinum itself, was after.
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Forget Hallmark Christmas movies — September and October are the best months on television for fans of horror or classic slasher movies, and those dark scenes are the spookiest when you can actually see who's lurking in the shadows.
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Lois Duncan, whose suspenseful young adult novels inspired the slasher movie "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and who later wrote about the unsolved murder of her daughter, died on Wednesday at her home in Bradenton, Fla.
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Think of Murphy's Law: the notion of an individual being perpetually doomed and ever confronting impending crisis (a mindset to which I am deeply sympathetic) are riven through the Celt creed and the green demesne of Meadow Slasher.
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We holed up watching Troma schlock or looping slasher flicks, discussing one friend's family's vision of the Evangelical apocalypse or another's furious commitment to supporting the war, stepping outside only to smoke cigarettes under the abyssal Northern sky.
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Here was a movie about angry white men releasing their white male anger, and I was a sixteen-year-old Asian American feminist who despised violence, was incensed that war drafts ever existed, and squirmed during slasher movies.
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: 40th Anniversary See Details On the other end of the gore spectrum is another classic, Rosemary's Baby, which manages to be just as terrifying, without the gore and violence of a slasher flick.
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"1984" should be a good hint the new season will pay tribute to '80s slasher films, where scary serial killers go running around on the screen with a knife (or a other sharp object of the killer's choice).
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Kent, who is engaged to producer Randall Emmett, recently starred in a sorority slasher flick called The Row, and has upcoming appearances in The Vault with Samira Wiley, as well as Ten Minutes Gone, which features Bruce Willis.
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We hold these horror truths to be self-evident: Unless you're the "final girl" at the end of the slasher flick, women and people of color are usually the victims in scary movies and TV shows, not the heroes.
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But, if you're more interested in rom-coms than slasher flicks at the moment, this is also an excellent transit to spend with those closest to you, engaging in intimate and profound conversations about anything that comes to mind.
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Levinson's bloody, stylized take on the slasher horror genre focuses on four teenage girls who spend most of the hour and forty-seven minute run time clad in the shortest shorts possible, with the camera lecherously panning their legs.
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Series regular Emma Roberts is back once again, and in a switch from her usual amoral blonde goth, this time she's playing the sweater-wearing virgin who usually doubles as the final girl of the classic teen slasher movie.
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In "Happy Death Day," a 2017 slasher variation on the classic time-loop comedy "Groundhog Day," a prickly but engaging college student, Tree Gelbman, had to solve her own murder in order to stop reliving the day it happened.
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The slasher flick currently has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 2320 percent and has the added benefit of being produced by Blumhouse, which has set a new standard for horror production in the 2000st century, which is lifting the entire category.
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So while the movie initially features modestly clever wrinkles -- and gets a lift from Brian Tyree Henry as a local cop, whose mom lives in their building -- the satirical and technology-inspired elements recede as the conventional slasher bits take over.
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The film even built in critiques of characters — a pair of podcasters eager to get an interview, a psychiatrist desperate to understand his most famous patient — who found silent slasher Michael Myers far more fascinating than the survivors of his rampage.
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On Monday, the Slasher actor, 52, revealed on the latest episode of his "Daddy Issues" podcast that he and his wife Tori Spelling, 46, were once having sex early on in their relationship when they were interrupted by McDermott's son Jack.
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She shrieked her way through the 22014s and 1980s in "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre", "Halloween" and "A Nightmare on Elm Street"; "Scream" (1996), a slasher movie which mocked the worn tropes of the genre, more or less finished her off.
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Plot twists and surprises aside, this is in many ways a pretty standard slasher-in-the-woods story, and it can use every unique signifier it can get, from the central couple to the memorable performances to the moody musical interludes.
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They constructed an iconic set of films that continue to impact viewers and directors, ranging from 1997's I Know What You Did Last Summer to 2017's Happy Death Day, another college-based slasher, but with a time loop conundrum.
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Shot in just over a week on a scant budget in the woods of Maryland, "The Blair Witch Project" dispensed with the run of 1980s slasher films and even laid waste to the '90s sardonic horror of the "Scream" franchise.
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Some critics have pointed to the rising divorce rate in the 1970s as the catalyst for the slasher film's rise, reading them as tributes to disenfranchised adolescents' terror as they come of age without the nuclear family as a protective shield.
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Although older films like Peeping Tom and Psycho laid the groundwork for the slasher, its golden age was between 1978 and 1984, which saw the release of classics like Friday the 13th (1980) and A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984).
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The horror-comedy "Happy Death Day" benefits from a winning performance by Jessica Rothe as Theresa, a reckless sorority sister who finds herself reliving the same day over and over — and repeatedly getting murdered by a masked slasher at the end.
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While we sat there, it began to rain again, violent sheets of rain, and I felt a surge of worry, as if Harvey, like some slasher-movie villain, hadn't been vanquished after all and was back to wreak more havoc.
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The trailer alone pays homage to several iconic slasher films, such as Friday the 13th and I Know What You Did Last Summer, which is just a small sample of the scares Murphy is bound to have in store for viewers.
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Remember, one of the officers who responded to the fight wrote in a report afterward that Josh had told him he didn't want to pursue charges against the slasher, and he knew the guards hadn't let that happen on purpose.
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Their psychedelic doom-death sound mixed with their love of slasher movies, black magic, and weed creates an atmosphere that hails back to the good ol' 1980s, when horror movies were golden and the Satanic Panic was in full swing.
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The gore is a little over-the-top, calling to mind slasher films or the grislier parts of Seven: for instance, one bloody victim is tied against a wall in Park Güell, pieces of trencadís mosaic embedded in his skin.
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John Carpenter's original 1978 film Halloween was one of the first mainstream films to claim a place in the slasher genre, and Michael Myers — the escaped mental hospital patient with a vendetta against babysitters — one of this sect of horror's first household names.
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What you need this Christmas is a horror movie, a slasher film that starts out with a series of creepy-as-hell phone calls, ratchets up the tension, never reveals who the killer is, and includes an in-your-face pro-choice subplot.
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Here, at least, there's that really delightful 3D gimmick to keep things moving along, and when you've got a slasher flick about a guy in a gas mask and mining gear slaughtering teens with a pickax, that gimmick is more than enough.
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The tension is in high supply, and so is the bloodshed: Director Ryûhei Kitamura, who also cowrote the screenplay, once again proves that he is a master of artful slasher gore, as he did in 2008's appallingly gross The Midnight Meat Train.
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Silent Night, Deadly Night is a 1984 slasher film about a man who, years after witnessing his parents' murder at the hands of a criminal dressed in a Santa costume, goes on a Christmas killing spree to punish those on the "naughty" list.
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But all that high-concept mumbo-jumbo can't mask the fact that at its core, Alien: Covenant really just wants to be one thing: a relentless slasher film that ups the gore, piles on the body count and the revs up the shocks.
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Unlike some of A24's other films in the genre (Hereditary, The Witch), Slice seems to engender everything we love about a good, campy slasher flick: unexplainable murders, a portal to hell, and enough throat slashing to make even the thirstiest vampire squeamish.
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But Levinson's twist on slasher revenge films like Scream and Friday The 103th, a genre that has traditionally been harmful to women, resonated with audiences at Sundance midnight screenings, primed for a movie that reflected the fury they felt at the status quo.
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The film is a comic blend of highbrow and lowbrow culture, meant to seem surreal because the decorous formality of a 19th-century comedy of manners seems so at odds with the joyously vulgar, Tarantino-friendly bloodbaths of a cheap slasher movie.
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The '80s were filled with iconic films like "Friday the 13th" and "Nightmare on Elm Street" as well as a slew of slasher sequels, but many of these relied heavily on formulaic plot lines and didn't break any new ground for the genre.
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Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream all proved that slasher films can get good reviews – they scored 92 percent, 94 percent and 78 percent, respectively – but Friday the 2953th was a turkey right from the get-go, scoring only 58 percent.
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While Alien gave us a female slasher protagonist who had no romantic interest and went largely un-sexualized, Aliens turned Ripley into a proper, armed-to-the-teeth action hero—paving the way for Sarah Connor, Buffy, Imperator Furiosa, and countless others.
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Writing the Danny Boyle-directed standouts like zombie nu-classic 28 Days Later, underrated space slasher Sunshine, and his own directorial efforts in the dystopian sci-fi of Ex Machina and Annihilation have solidified Garland as one of Hollywood's foremost genre experimentalists.
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Honestly, this season of Orange gets better and better the longer it goes (though, weirdly, the slasher homage is dropped into the middle of the otherwise very good back half of the season), and the final three episodes go from strength to strength.
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Anticipating the slasher boom that would begin four years later with "Halloween," Leatherface (played with hulking abandon by Gunnar Hansen, who died in 2015) hunted his prey with ferocity and panache, using a hammer, a meat hook and, of course, a chain saw.
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Before taking a decidedly warmer view of the holiday season with "A Christmas Story," the director Bob Clark offered this nasty piece of counterprogramming, a proto-"Halloween" slasher film with big scares and boozy wit, much of it coming from Margot Kidder.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles police arrested a 19-year-old man on Wednesday on suspicion he is the "slasher" who has cut the faces of at least nine people, seemingly at random, as he rode through the city on a bicycle, police said.
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It's a good thing, then, that the almost-expired pile of titles at Netflix is more than enough to get you through the slasher-flick marathons plaguing so many cable networks: casually entertaining action films; family-friendly sci-fi; even a contemporary cartoon classic.
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The color of blood may conjure up images of gory slasher films or shaving your legs for the first time — which, let's be honest, aren't that different — but when it comes to makeup, the hue is one of the most flattering I've ever tried.
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By now, certain horror movie tropes that originated in slasher films like Halloween (1978) are so familiar we can practically identify just when the masked killer will emerge, and on whom he'll prey first (It's always the guy who gets separated from the group).
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Wheatley's past films —" the dark comedy Sightseers, the genre-defying slasher Kill List, the weird black-and-white micro-project A Field In England —" come together in this film, which is crazed and violent, image-driven and a moral lesson, and just plain strange.
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In the same way we yell at a slasher film heroine, "Don't go in the house," we yell at Celeste, "Don't leave the house," as she glides out of her palatial mansion with Perry — who previously threatened to kill his spouse — towering over her.
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"Halloween" has become one of Hollywood's most famous slasher film franchises, with nine sequels and reboots over the years, the last being Rob Zombie's 2009 "Halloween II." Curtis' last appearance in the franchise was in 2002's "Halloween: Resurrection," in which her character was killed.
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Four decades after the release of John Carpenter's slasher classic, Universal released the latest film in the "Halloween" franchise this weekend with the hope that a resurgence in mainstream interest in horror and nostalgia for old scary movies would deliver a box-office smash.
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Walsh made his name standing up to unions and cutting costs first at Ireland's Aer Lingus, where he became CEO in 2001, and then at British Airways, earning him the nickname Slasher Walsh in an industry he once characterized as a "fight for survival".
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The director Sophia Takal, who wrote the screenplay with the film critic April Wolfe, has taken the 1974 Canadian sorority slasher standard — remade once before, in 2006 — and run with it, emerging with a movie significantly different in style and tone from its source.
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Why it's scary: If you liked the new "Halloween" -- in theaters now -- you should skip all the other sequels and go back to the original, which made a star of Jamie Lee Curtis and set the bar against which all slasher movies are measured.
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This season, the teen slasher movie will get its due, and "Camp Redwood" starts strong with references to the pioneering summer camp massacre movie, Friday the 13th, and to Halloween's serial killer asylum escapee (at one point a famous Halloween murder is briefly recreated).
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A good director could easily lull an audience with the seductive beach setting and our empathy with Emily's quest to rebuild her life — all to make the abrupt about-face and the sudden switch to a grueling slasher/stalker narrative that much more terrifying.
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Happy Death Day 2U is the sequel to 2017's Happy Death Day, a slasher with a Groundhog Day premise as sorority girl Tree (Jessica Rothe) gets murdered on the night of her birthday and enters a time-loop, reliving her death over and over again.
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He soon earned the Slasher Walsh nickname for the job cuts he made at the Irish carrier before he was hired to become boss at BA in 2005 where his skills were put to the test when the global financial crisis also dampened demand for travel.
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The game took Heavy Rain's branching story structure and applied it to a self-aware slasher tale, which felt like a much more natural fit — even if you made the wrong call and let a character die in an gory instant, the story would just keep going.
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Such is the premise of the gleefully gory prenatal slasher Prevenge, out tomorrow, which finds Ruth using the presumed vulnerability prompted by her swollen belly to her advantage, dutifully bumping off victim after victim and tracking her increasingly complicated kills in a "Baby's First Steps" scrapbook.
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You already have a gazillion other things to worry about during this special time in your life — figuring out how to maneuver around your belly with a sharp razor to your nether regions without making a slasher movie out of it shouldn't be one of them.
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The '90s were a time of cultural restoration—the release of Boomerang, The Inkwell, Poetic Justice, and similar movies heralded a black rom-com renaissance—and with it came two black horror tentpoles: the cult slasher trilogy Candyman (1992, 1995, 1999) and Tales From the Hood (1995).
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And yet, by throwing in just about everything he's ever loved — comics and teen soaps and great books and slasher films — and hitting the button for frappé, Aguirre-Sacasa has made something original: shows that are sexy and smart, story-drunk and story-driven, pointedly inclusive.
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The landscape of "The Terrifying" — which is richly enhanced by Ben Williams's elaborate, scream-ridden sound design — is drawn not so much from the slasher and demonic possession movies that have dominated the genre for the past several decades as from a hoarier kind of film.
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Before long, I was beginning to wonder whether Larocque, a writer for the TV series "Slasher," wasn't simply replacing ethnocentricity, noxious and unacceptable as it is, with chronocentrism — a term coined in 1974 to suggest among other things, prejudice against other times, rather than against other races.
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Variety hails it as a logical and admirable progression: The Korean trickster god is above all known for his uncategorizable movie melées which tumble bloodily down the genre stairs hitting every step — comedy, horror, drama, social commentary, slasher, creature feature, murder mystery, manifesto for vegetarianism — on the way.
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Halloween is often credited as being the first example of the slasher subgenre of horror, and for introducing the world to the concept of the Final Girl: the one girl, usually singled out for her virginal qualities, who gets to survive the cinematic massacre of all her counterparts.
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Among his best-loved works: his creepy, crayon-colored celebration of the Chiodo Brothers cult classic "Killer Klowns From Outer Space," and his in-your-face take on John Carpenter's 1978 slasher classic, "Halloween," which captures the precise moment when Michael Myers bursts into the closet and starts stabbing.
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Even the most unrealistic and absurd works do it: back in 1956 "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" cast a knowing eye on American McCarthyism while "Hostel", a silly slasher flick released in 2005, nodded to the fear of outsiders and foreign travel in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
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Horror thrillers are generally fraught with sexism, but I Know What You Did Last Summer which not only passes the Bechdel Test many times over, but also stars two women leads, Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt) and Helen Shivers (Sarah Michelle Gellar), is mildly refreshing for a late-90s slasher film.
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The slash-happy Giallo genre of Italian noir thrillers predates Halloween by about a decade, and two earlier slasher movies gave us the prototypical Final Girls: Tobe Hooper's Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the Canadian cult classic Black Christmas, which were released a few months apart from each other in 22.
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And Mick Mulvaney, the President's acting chief of staff and OMB director, who had earned a reputation from his colleagues on the Hill as a take-no-prisoners budget slasher, had been pushing for a rescissions package throughout the summer that would have cut roughly $4 billion in foreign aid.
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Friday the 13th became one of the iconic slasher series of all time by turning in an increasingly amped-up installments throughout the '80s, throughout which Jason became less of a figure of terror and more of a video-game character, juggernauting his way through films in series of escalatingly violent set-pieces.
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Silent Night, Bloody Night (sometimes distributed as Death House, Deathouse, or Night of the Dark Full Moon) is a prime example of the pre-Halloween slasher, where the identity of the killer is shrouded in mystery, as the audience witnesses a string of murders through his or her first-person point of view.
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It says something about our current cultural climate that the slasher movie seems to have the much more honest and authentic take on reality, but in either case, it's an example of storytellers trying to grapple with the realities of the moment — a trend that will no doubt continue in the coming years.
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In the third installment of Wes Craven's slasher franchise, the hapless Sidney Prescott (Neve Cambpell) chooses to live in self-imposed isolation, only to be dragged back into a bloody whodunit when the actors in "Stab 3" — the latest in a scary-movie series based on Sidney's life — are murdered one by one.
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Bucking the then-popular slasher trend for a pastoral vibe that hits closer to home, this adaptation of a Stephen King short story about possessed children who murder all of the adults in their Nebraska town was lampooned in a South Park episode, so you know it's part of the cultural unconscious.
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Indoor tanning was, at one point, all the rage in white America—to the point that not one, but two totally forgettable teen slasher movie sequels from the '90s and '00s, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer and Final Destination 3, had its killer use a tanning bed as a weapon.
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Near the beginning of Don't Breathe — the taut, appropriately breath-stealing new movie that galvanizes the tired home invasion subgenre of horror the way films like The Witch and It Follows have done for the coven and slasher subgenres — the camera lingers on some abandoned houses in a dead neighborhood of Detroit.
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Day one fans of Casisdead's slasher rap style might be wondering where all the shagging, murder, naked bodies, dead bodies, necrophilia and nasty drugs have gone, but even they can't deny that when the Tottenham MC turns his hand to this level of hypnotic synth-rap heater, he's probably better at it than anyone else.
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They expertly execute speed metal's core tenets—heavy metal, thrash, even They simply show up, plug in, and shred—echoing the loose, bare-bones approach of their forebears down to their song titles ("Night Slasher" is a particularly sick ripper), leather-clad aesthetic, reckless tempos, and vocalist Dimi's high-pitched squeals and unhinged laughter.
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