The Scream franchise plays by the slasher horror film rules but also pays homage to many different classics throughout the series. "The Exorcist was on, it got me thinking of you" is one of the more ...
Happy Friday the 13th! If the unluckiest of days puts you in the mood to watch a classic slasher movie like Friday the 13th, we have some recommendations. Curl up with your favorite black cat, look ...
While it is true that Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho is one of the earliest precursors to the entire slasher sub-genre, there was a direct influence the film had on cinema that eventually led to slashers ...
Listen, I'm a grown man, a full-on adult. But if I'm home alone and I'm hopping in the shower, I am locking that bathroom door all because this scene from "Psycho" is imprinted in my mind. (SOUNDBITE ...
To paraphrase John Huston’s villainous Noah Cross in “Chinatown,” politicians, old buildings, and disreputable movie genres all get respectable if they last long enough. Take the slasher film, for ...
When there is a discussion of what the first-ever slasher was, a lot of titles come up. John Carpenter's Halloween in 1978 certainly changed everything and set off the subgenre, with Friday the 13th ...
"Psycho" is cemented in cinema history as one of the earliest slasher films. But since it came out over 60 years ago, only one of its stars is still alive.