In
all horror genres, nothing has been quite as enigmatic as the slasher
horror films. They were seemingly everywhere in the 80’s, only to
disappear as quickly as they had surfaced. Let’s take a look at
some of the best slasher horror movies of all time. What better time
than now, with Halloween coming up?
Scream
While
this movie released when people didn’t care about slasher movies
anymore, it was one of the better ones. It had something previous
slasher movies didn’t have: main characters that were more
interesting than the bad guy. This is also why this is probably the
only slasher series where the sequels didn’t absolutely suck.
Hellraiser
In
terms of tearing/slashing people apart, I doubt many movies got more
creative than the Hellraiser series. The first one is a classic that
everyone should watch and they’re probably decent up until the
third or fourth movie. There’s been almost a dozen though, so a lot
of movies to avoid.
Friday
the 13th
One
of the best known slasher series, this movie starts off by telling
the story of Jason Voorhees, who was bullied at camp so badly that
his trauma led him to live with his mother and murder everyone that
goes to camp. Makes sense, until he returns from the dead in the
third movie and gets revived in space in the tenth.
Halloween
Michael
Myers had the psychopath look nailed down completely with his pale
white mask and large meat knife. Sadly, the third Halloween movie
doesn’t even have Michael in it and somehow they still wanted to
make a movie after that. The recent remakes have been pretty good
though, even the Rob Zombie ones!
Nightmare
on Elm Street
Everyone’s
biggest nightmare was probably Freddy Krueger back in the 80s.
Ironically, he was only able to kill you in your sleep, so all you
had to do to survive his finger knives was stay awake! How hard can
it be?
Child’s
Play
If
you like dolls and want to keep it that way, Child’s Play probably
isn’t the movie to watch. A criminal uses his last energy to
transfer his consciousness into a doll, and then continues on killing
as a doll. The concept is completely whack, but the movie is loads of
fun to watch. Also, there’s a remake of this coming up soon.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
And last but not least: ol’ Leatherface. Where everyone else used knives, machetes or torture devices from hell, Leatherface didn’t waste any time. As the title of the series suggests, he stuck to the tool he admired the most: his chainsaw. If you wonder if that’s good for killing – it is.
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