The slasher movie is the most reviled but successful of horror's subgenres. Taking its cue from Hitchcock, grind-house movies, and the gory Italian "giallo "thrillers of the 1970s, slasher movies brought a new high in cinematic violence and suspense to mainstream cinema. For six bloody years (1978-1[...]
'Death has come to your little town', Dr Loomis to the cops in John Carpenter's "Halloween", the movie that kick-started the Golden Age of Slashers. "Teenage Wasteland": The Slasher Movie "Uncut" lifts the lid on the glory days of the slasher perhaps the most reviled but also commercially successful[...]