
Given the many slasher films that have elements directly traceable back to Halloween, watching this 1978 film in 2019 is both a familiar and refreshing horror experience. The subgenre of horror films became very popular in the 80s when iconic films like A Nightmare on Elm Street, Childs Play, Halloween, and Friday the 13th were released. As a testament to its longevity, there’s already talk of an upcoming sequel to the 2018 revamp of the movie, in which original villain Nick Castle, who played Michael Myers in 1978, is reportedly ready and willing to make an appearance. Slasher films are horror movies usually featuring a rugged, resilient, merciless killer murdering a bunch of people using a knife or some kind of bladed weapon. While many blood-soaked, genre-making slasher films have come before it, only 1978’s Halloween managed to violently drag the gritty, low-budget, independent slasher genre into the mainstream limelight. To me this is a very creepy and deep slasher as the cosyume used by 'Leatherface' is to hide the identity, like many others, although which contributes to this is the.
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When it comes to defining the slasher sub-genre of horror, no other movie can hold a candle to John Carpenter’s Halloween. A slasher film which was supposed to be based on true events about a group that get stranded out in the open and get tourmented by a stranger that is known as 'Leatherface'. Ever since the movement was born in John Carpenters Halloween and Bob Clarks Black Christmas, the slasher movie has become one. Halloween (1978) Compass International Pictures Slasher movies are part of the bread and butter of horror cinema. IN I978, HALLOWEEN HERALDED a new SUD genre of horror, the teen slasher film. A slasher film is a subgenre of thriller and horror film, typically involving a psychopathic killer stalking. At its heart, slashers occupy a space in the horror genre that is closest to reality. subgenre of horror films involving a violent psychopath stalking and murdering a group of people, usually by use of bladed tools. The Monstrous Years: Teens, Slasher Films, and the Family.

1932s 'Thirteen Women' featured sorority sisters at the center of a. A determined human killer with access to sharp objects brings something to the screen that dangerous aliens or demons simply can’t. However, films with a murder or mystery at the center eventually gave rise to the tropes associated with modern slasher movies. Im not much of a slasher movie fan, but I do like them when there is an element of unreality, or a twist that sets them apart.


Out of the many sub-genres of horror, slashers are the most visceral, a psychic stab at the all too familiar sensations of pain, suspense, and ill motive. The movie set up mood of the slasher: Sexually charged, with a degree of mystery, where the ample cast of characters one-by-one take a sharp turn into doom. There are plenty of reasons why B-Sides and Badlands is obsessed with the slasher genre.
