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 ...

Writer-director Chris Nash tells EW how he put a fresh spin on the slasher genre. Ever watch a slasher movie and wonder what the killer was getting up to between murders? Writer-director Chris Nash ...

With 'MaXXXine' ready to carve its name in Hollywood, The Hollywood Reporter ranks the best modern slasher films within the last 10 years. By Richard Newby Men in masks. Final girls. A steadily ...

Horror underwent a radical change in the 1970s and early '80s, as religious tropes and monster movies gave way to more human threats in masks, creating the rise of the slasher. While many credit ...

Fifty years ago, two independent filmmakers named Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel had a gruesome vision for a new kind of film. Their idea involved merciless kills, a chainsaw, a group of youths and a ...

Jennifer Kaytin Robinson's reboot is an unextreme slasher movie, with a hint of 'Scream,' that knows what you did at the multiplex last century. The novelty of “I Know What You Did Last Summer” wasn’t ...

Adapting a YA novel, director Eli Craig tries to pass off a lack of originality as "meta." The result is neither scary nor fun. Here’s why the film, lunkish and plodding as it is, thinks it’s meta. We ...

Horror comes in an array of subgenre flavors to satisfy the tastes of different audiences. Some viewers eschew copious amounts of blood and brutality, instead opting for lighter fare that infuses ...