You may know Halloween and Scream, but there is way more to the slasher genre. Here's your complete guide to the horror subgenre.
The Big Picture Ask a person who doesn't watch horror to name a popular horror film, and you're going to get a lot of titles. Classics like The Shining or The Exorcist will be up there for sure, but most of the time what you're going to hear from non-fans are the popular slashers, like Halloween, Friday the 13th, or The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Many times, these people might not even know the franchise titles, but they know the household names like Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees .
In the late '90s, and into the 2000s, found footage was everywhere. We have The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity to thank for that. Most recently was the subgenre that wrongly gets labeled as "torture porn." Splatter films are what these are really called. The Saw franchise is at ten films now and counting, and another Final Destination entry is on the way soon as well.
Once you've seen those, move on to Scream. Wes Craven's 1996 film brought the long-dead slasher film back by being a meta love letter to the past. Scream is if you took Halloween and turned it into a murder mystery that winks at the viewer. The gore isn't as intense as other slashers and each entry is a whodunit. Ghostface isn't one man, but a different killer each time. That difference alone makes them a fun foray into the subgenre.
The other influential film of 1974 isn't as well known, but it's just as important. Before Bob Clark gave us A Christmas Story, he made Black Christmas. It created many of the tropes later seen in Halloween, from the killer attacking on a holiday to showing his point-of-view and giving us the first-ever final girl. Though other horror hits became unending franchises, outside of a few bad remakes, Black Christmas and its chilling ending have stood on their own for almost half a century.
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