While not the first slasher, John Carpenter’s masterpiece, Halloween, ushered in the golden age of carnage that would dominate horror cinema through the 1980s. Just like Grunge music or reality TV, the initial appeal wore off, and the genre grew stale, but there has been a resurgence of fresh, innovative slasher films.With a basic formula of a shadowy killer slaughtering teenagers, slasher movies are a bit limited, but creative twists and new approaches have sharpened the knives on a genre that had been dull for decades. Great modern slashers owe their existence to the classics, but have carved out their own bloody niche.The Funhouse Massacre, released in 2015, realized that if one stalker was chilling, then a whole slew of them is pure mayhem. Instead of one bloodthirsty madman escaping an asylum for the criminally insane and killing teens at a funhouse, this movie has six of them.10 Most Overlooked Slasher Movies
While not the first slasher, John Carpenter’s masterpiece, Halloween, ushered in the golden age of carnage that would dominate horror cinema through the 1980s. Just like Grunge music or reality TV, the initial appeal wore off, and the genre grew stale, but there has been a resurgence of fresh, innovative slasher films.
With a basic formula of a shadowy killer slaughtering teenagers, slasher movies are a bit limited, but creative twists and new approaches have sharpened the knives on a genre that had been dull for decades. Great modern slashers owe their existence to the classics, but have carved out their own bloody niche.
The Funhouse Massacre, released in 2015, realized that if one stalker was chilling, then a whole slew of them is pure mayhem. Instead of one bloodthirsty madman escaping an asylum for the criminally insane and killing teens at a funhouse, this movie has six of them.
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