Slasher films were all the rage in the 1980s. Thanks to the likes of Michael Myers in Halloween and Jason Voorhees in the Friday the 13th franchise, along with their many clones, it seemed like a new ...
Chris Nash’s In a Violent Nature puts a different spin on the slasher movie with interesting, yet inconsistent, results. The premise is slasher 101. A local legend of a murderous man thought long dead ...
This delightfully trashy entry in the seasonal subgenre follows a killer Santa with a heart, and a case of blood lust.
If there’s one thing you can expect from your typical slasher film, it’s an all-white (or mostly white) cast of straight characters. It’s a tried and true formula that, yes, has given us some of the ...
Nostalgia for summer camps is a strange thing. Whether you've been to camp as a child, a teen camper, and/or an adult counselor, chances are most of your experiences there have involved some sort of ...
Time is the slasher genre’s ultimate villain. As final girls like Laurie Strode and Sidney Prescott slow down with age, the masked killers who relentlessly pursue them never lose a step. Rather than ...
We don’t talk enough about Leigh Janiak’s impressive “Fear Street” film trilogy, based the young adult horror novels by R.L. Stine. Four years ago Janiak unveiled, one week after another, three mostly ...
The Bloomquist Brothers' election-themed slasher isn't so much a bold send-up of American political brutality as it is a junk-drawer oddity barely saved by its illogical twists and the rare lesbian ...
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Isabella Soares is a Senior Writer for Collider, as well as a Cherry Picks-approved critic. A film and TV enthusiast from an early age, Isabella used to write reviews in her journal growing up, which ...
In Scream and its sequels, the slasher-movie characters couldn’t suppress their own knowledge of slasher movies – couldn’t even, in the first film, stop watching Halloween as a masked killer ...
The Red Eye section at the Chattanooga Film Festival is always a fun deep dive into horror curios, from cheesy creature features to genre films that simply fell between the cracks, giving long-time ...