The 1980s were the heyday of the slasher movie, when dozens of films about masked killers slashing their way through unsuspecting, often teenage, victims made their way into theaters and onto video ...

Night of the Reaper starts streaming on Shudder on September 19. Night of the Reaper follows college student Deena, who returns home and takes on a babysitting job amid the aftermath of a teenager's ...

Other times, however, the big names (before they became big), were in one-off slashers. Those are the big names that follow. Because of the behind-the-scenes issues, Clownhouse is now next to ...

Freddy Krueger was always at least middle-aged, but now his whole series is about to follow suit: A Nightmare on Elm Street, the Wes Craven slasher classic, is turning 40 shortly after Halloween. It’s ...

Director Ti West’s breathtaking horror trilogy comes to its gory, glamorous conclusion in the new film MaXXXine. Emphasis on glamorous—this one is set in the grimy underbelly of 1980s Hollywood, where ...

Lisa Frankenstein recently arrived in theaters, giving us all a fresh dose of leg warmers and hair spray and reminding everyone that, while ’90s nostalgia is hot, ’80s nostalgia isn’t over yet. Zelda ...

William Lustig's Maniac remains to this day one of the more infamous titles in the annals of 1980s slasher cinema. A grimy, low-budget affair about a disturbed man who kills women and takes their ...

The original Prom Night was released in 1980, towards the beginning of the slasher boom. Overall, it’s an effective entry in the subgenre with a bizarrely long dance number and a connection between ...

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 1990s is the one decade that doesn't have a clear horror movie identity, but there are some films from the '90s that best ...