American actress Vera Miles stars as Lila Crane in the horror classic 'Psycho', directed by Alfred Hitchcock, 1960. “The call is coming inside the house.” “Don’t leave the group.” “Watch out, he’s ...

Horror history is filled with terrific slasher films. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Great horror movies cannot be singularly ...

Movies have been scaring the wits out of folks for a century now and one of cinema's most effective terror delivery systems is the "slasher." Yes, horror movies have ...

As Halloween approaches slasher movies draw their biggest audiences as All Things Considered host Andrew Limbong talks with NPR's Brianna Scott and Ryan Benk about what keeps the genre alive and why ...

Slasher films were all the rage in the 1980s. Thanks to the likes of Michael Myers in Halloween and Jason Voorhees in the Friday the 13th franchise, along with their many clones, it seemed like a new ...

Fifty years ago, two independent filmmakers named Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel had a gruesome vision for a new kind of film. Their idea involved merciless kills, a chainsaw, a group of youths and a ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook For decades, one of the most prevalent subgenres in horror is the slasher. The barebones ...

When you sit down to watch a slasher, you know exactly what to expect: a group of faceless youth being slaughtered. From the 1980s to the more recent slasher renaissance (or “slasher-ssance”), with ...