With slashers, you can count on high body counts involving gory death sequences, a killer motivated by a past trauma, and a protagonist that outlasts their friends to face off against the killer and survive, usually in the form of the Final Girl. Prescott’s definition aside, the slasher is a cinematic mainstay that, like Scream, involves a violent, often masked psychopath who stalks and murders groups of people with bladed weapons. Sidney Prescott famously summed up in Scream what many think about a certain horror subgenre: “Some stupid killer stalking some big-breasted girl who can’t act, who is always running up the stairs when she should be running out the front door.” She was talking, of course, about the most popular and prevalent of all horror subgenres: the slasher film. We’re republishing it with Bodies Bodies Bodies now in theaters. Photo: Vortex/Dimension Films/Paramount Pictures Classic slashers: Scream, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and Psycho.
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