slashers
How Scream Was A Horror Game-Changer
To mark the twentieth anniversary of Wes Craven’s game-changing slasher, Scream, Wicked Horror presents a week of specially-themed content celebrating the movie’s enduring appeal. In this installment,...
TV Slashers: The New Trend That Shouldn’t Work (But Really Does)
The slasher formula was designed for the time restraints of a motion picture–and not for a particularly long one, either. Halloween, Friday the 13th, Black Christmas and most of their ilk all ba...
Outside-the-Box Horror Movie Weapons That are Hilariously Inventive
One of the largest, most primal draws for a horror movie is the need to see people dispatched in creative ways. The only problem is that as slashers grew more and more popular, it became harder and ha...
Nine ’80s Slashers You Might Have Missed But Need to See
’80s slashers. Even today, these are how a lot of people define the entire genre. As a sub-genre, it’s never had as strong of an output as it did from 1980-1985, despite some resurgence in the m...
How Mario Bava Set the Template for American Slashers
It’s no secret that the early slasher films were heavily influenced by the Italian giallo movies. These were very similar features, albeit slightly more sophisticated—yet gorier—versions of the same t...
Why 90’s Slashers Get Too Much Flack (And How They Helped the Genre)
The slasher film began to build momentum in the late ’70s and really took off in the early s80s. Halloween was a major independent success and Friday the 13th followed right on its heels and lau...
