Fans consider the 1980s the high point of horror cinema for a reason. With home video becoming a standard part of every American home, and cable channels growing every day, distributors wanted ...

Back in 2003, horror fans everywhere got to experience something truly special. Two of the greatest and most iconic figureheads in the genre collided on the big screen in Freddy vs. Jason. Neither ...

Horror is a broad canvas that covers many unique sub-genres, from zombie movies to haunted house flicks. None of them are as intertwined with the genre, however, as slasher horror movies. Some of ...

One, two, Freddy's coming for you... A whole generation of high schoolers found out the hard way that one dares not fall asleep in Springwood, Ohio unless they want to risk never waking. Wes Craven's ...

For decades, one of the most prevalent subgenres in horror is the slasher. The barebones definition of a slasher, according to Merriam Webster, is a person who kills with an edged blade. Along with ...

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 ...

Even though horror is an immense and expansive genre, nothing beats a good old-fashioned slasher flick. Before the 21st-century horror Renaissance, where scary movies became more artistic and ...