Top 10 Slasher Movies
Nothing beats watching a movie where the witless victims walk outside in the dark while you scream “Don’t go outside!” You know the crazed killer is going to be just waiting for them. Hollywood has produced some really great (and gory) slasher films so here is a list of the top ten slasher movies of all time.
- Black Christmas – One of the first true slasher films, even before Halloween. Girls in a sorority house start getting menacing phone calls. The game turns deadly when they find out the calls are coming from inside their sorority house.
- Psycho – Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller convinced everyone to always lock the door when you take a shower. It also proves that your mother, no matter how much you love her, can drive you crazy. Anthony Perkins may seem like a nice, well-mannered motel owner but deep down, he has issues.
- Scream – Credited with rejuvenating the slasher film, it also blatantly poked fun at many of the genre’s clichés. Basically, a crazed killer is on the loose. A group of kids who watch horror movies and should know better, become his latest victims.
- Friday the 13th – The very first of the film franchise is still the best. The moral here is that if you try to get it on with someone while at camp, you are going to get the axe. The film creates a horror icon with the character Jason.
- Halloween – This movie is the granddaddy of the slasher films and credited with the start of the genre. It set up many of the characteristics such as the masked, unstoppable killer, buckets of blood, and an expendable cast. It also gave us Michael Myers.
- Nightmare on Elm Street – Wes Craven took the slasher film and gave it a supernatural twist with Freddy Kruger. As a bad guy that attacks us in our dreams, he is hard to fight back against. The first film was refreshing and different from other typical slasher flicks.
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre – Although this movie was before Halloween, it doesn’t get the credit of starting the genre because it was an independent film. The film is about a group of teenagers that stumble on a family of cannibals in backwoods Texas. They even have their own butcher with Leatherface.
- My Bloody Valentine – A crazed miner hates Valentines Day and warns the town never to celebrate the holiday ever again. Years pass and naturally, the town decides to hold a Valentine’s Day dance. Who comes knocking but the crazed miner intent on taking out some party goers.
- Suspiria – Maybe not a well-known slasher flick but a darn good one. A young girl goes to Germany to attend dance school. When she gets there, she finds out the walls are inhabited by a coven of witches.
- Child’s Play – What child wouldn’t want a toy that was alive and could play with you? The problem is that Chucky has the soul of a serial killer. So when people start dying, who would think a toy was capable of it?
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