With eight films released in ten years, the Friday the 13th franchise was the king of the 1980s slashers. Though the first film excelled as a mystery with the reveal of Pamela Voorhees (Betsy Palmer) ...

Paste’s ABCs of Horror 3 is a 26-day project that highlights some of our favorite horror films from each letter of the alphabet. The only criteria: The films chosen can’t have been used in our ...

There are few horror movies that have impacted the genre like John Carpenter’s 1978 classic Halloween. It isn’t the first slasher film by any means (it was preceded by ‘60s proto-slashers like Peeping ...

If you’re gonna giallo, you gotta Dario Argento. We’ve covered the Italian horror icon extensively in the past, but if you want an Argento giallo, Tenebrae—about an author targeted by a bloodthirsty ...

While it is true that Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho is one of the earliest precursors to the entire slasher sub-genre, there was a direct influence the film had on cinema that eventually led to slashers ...

Paste’s ABCs of Horror 3 is a 26-day project that highlights some of our favorite horror films from each letter of the alphabet. The only criteria: The films chosen can’t have been used in our ...

Daniel is a 27-year-old List Writer for Collider living in the south suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. As an avid film buff, he watches and analyzes many films and TV shows, especially in the horror genre ...

Horror history is filled with terrific slasher films. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Great horror movies cannot be singularly ...