Genre
Slasher Movies
A horror subgenre organised around a masked or disfigured killer, a dwindling group of young victims, and a final survivor. Its rules are so fixed that breaking them became its own tradition.
Four textbook cases
Not the best four — the four that define the shape. Start anywhere.
Halloween
John Carpenter · 1978
Black Christmas
Bob Clark · 1974
Friday the 13th
Marcus Nispel · 2009
Scream
Tyler Gillett · 2022
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