Slasher Movies

[Nighthawk76]

After the success of Halloween (1978) and Friday the 13th (1980) the slasher movie became the most popular type of horror movie during the early 80's and the target for the moral majority. And very few of them actually did well at the box office. Even popular titles like Happy Birthday to Me and My Bloody Valentine did little box office business and didn't really find an audience until video. And there's a simple fact that most slasher movies were pretty bad. Ones that I find totally deplorable include Don't Answer the Phone, The Burning and Silent Night, Deadly Night. Still, there are some slasher movies that were true horror classics and here are some of my favorites. What are you're?

1. A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)
2. Halloween (1978)
3. Friday the 13th (1980)
4. Scream 2 (1997)
5. Graduation Day (1981)
6. A Nightmare On Elm Street Part III-Dream Warriors (1987)
7. Happy Birthday to Me (1981)
8. Friday the 13th Part 3 (1982)
9. Halloween II (1981)
10. Prom Night (1980)

[Torgo]

I love slashers, even the bad slashers, at least from the 80's, I find the bad ones extremely entertaining.

I like both The Burning and Silent Night Deadly Night, SNDN I try to watch it every December, interestingly it isn't the first horror film to have a killer dressed as Santa (Tales From The Crypt '72, Christmas Evil, To All A Good Night all had killer Santas before SNDN) , but it's one that became controversial when parents began protesting the film.

My Top 10 favorites (no order)-

My Bloody Valentine (1981)
Happy Birthday To Me (1981)
Halloween (1978)
Black Christmas (1974)
The House On Sorority Row
Blood Rage (1987)
Hell Night (1981)
Just Before Dawn (1981)
The Prowler (1981)
Friday The 13th (1980)

Also love- Final Exam, Prom Night, The Burning, Madman, Slumber Party Massacre, Terror Train, Humongous, The Final Terror, Intruder, The Mutilator, Curtains, The Silent Scream, Sleepaway Camp, Hide And Go Shriek, Death Screams, Slaughterhouse, Friday The 13th parts 2-5, Halloween II, and 4, The Initiation, The Slayer, Cheerleader Camp.

Some of my favorite bad slashers-

Pieces (1982)
Blood Lake (1987)
Last Slumber Party (1988)
Slumber Party Massacre II (1987)
Blood Hook (1986)
The Redeemer: Son Of Satan! (1978)
Sledgehammer (1983)
Destroyer (1988)
Splatter University (1984)
Horror House On Highway Five (1985)
Don't Go In The Woods (1981)
Bikini Girls On Ice (2009)
You Can't Kill Stephen King (2012)


More recent (post 2000) slashers I've enjoyed-

Cold Prey 1 & 2
Hatchet 1-3
Blood Junkie
All The Boys Love Mandy Lane
Severance
The Cottage
The Hills Run Red
Toolbox Murders (2004)
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
Wrong Turn
Midnight Movie
Cherry Falls
Gutterballs
If A Tree Falls
Tucker And Dale VS Evil

[Penny Lane]

I hate slasher movies! I'm very squeamish and I just can't watch them. I like just good old spooky ghost stories like "Poltergeist".

[Nighthawk76]

Originally Posted by Penny Lane

I hate slasher movies! I'm very squeamish and I just can't watch them. I like just good old spooky ghost stories like "Poltergeist".

Poltergeist is a classic! As far as slasher movies are concerned, you should give Halloween a try. Very scary but with very little gore.

[Nighthawk76]

Originally Posted by Torgo

I love slashers, even the bad slashers, at least from the 80's, I find the bad ones extremely entertaining.

I like both The Burning and Silent Night Deadly Night, SNDN I try to watch it every December, interestingly it isn't the first horror film to have a killer dressed as Santa (Tales From The Crypt '72, Christmas Evil, To All A Good Night all had killer Santas before SNDN) , but it's one that became controversial when parents began protesting the film.

My Top 10 favorites (no order)-

My Bloody Valentine (1981)
Happy Birthday To Me (1981)
Halloween (1978)
Black Christmas (1974)
The House On Sorority Row
Blood Rage (1987)
Hell Night (1981)
Just Before Dawn (1981)
The Prowler (1981)
Friday The 13th (1980)

Also love- Final Exam, Prom Night, The Burning, Madman, Slumber Party Massacre, Terror Train, Humongous, The Final Terror, Intruder, The Mutilator, Curtains, The Silent Scream, Sleepaway Camp, Hide And Go Shriek, Death Screams, Slaughterhouse, Friday The 13th parts 2-5, Halloween II, and 4, The Initiation, The Slayer, Cheerleader Camp.

Some of my favorite bad slashers-

Pieces (1982)
Blood Lake (1987)
Last Slumber Party (1988)
Slumber Party Massacre II (1987)
Blood Hook (1986)
The Redeemer: Son Of Satan! (1978)
Sledgehammer (1983)
Destroyer (1988)
Splatter University (1984)
Horror House On Highway Five (1985)
Don't Go In The Woods (1981)
Bikini Girls On Ice (2009)
You Can't Kill Stephen King (2012)


More recent (post 2000) slashers I've enjoyed-

Cold Prey 1 & 2
Hatchet 1-3
Blood Junkie
All The Boys Love Mandy Lane
Severance
The Cottage
The Hills Run Red
Toolbox Murders (2004)
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
Wrong Turn
Midnight Movie
Cherry Falls
Gutterballs
If A Tree Falls
Tucker And Dale VS Evil

Now, that's what I call a list. I haven't heard of most of these movies.

[Torgo]

Originally Posted by Shine

Now, that's what I call a list. I haven't heard of most of these movies.

Slashers are one of my favorite horror sub genres. They were the films that got me into horror when I was a kid.

[Nighthawk76]

Originally Posted by Torgo

Slashers are one of my favorite horror sub genres. They were the films that got me into horror when I was a kid.

Another one I liked that I didn't have enough room to put on my list is 1980's The Boogey Man. I like that one. Halloween and Friday the 13th were two of my earliest horror movie experiences.

[JamesG]

I was checking out some various lists on underrated or forgotten slasher flicks:


Alone in the Dark (1982)
Dr. Giggles (1992)
Graduation Day (1981)
He Knows You're Alone (1980)
The Initiation (1984)
Jack-O (1995)
Lovers Lane (1999)
Madhouse (1981)
New Year's Evil (1981)
Offerings (1989)
You Better Watch Out (1980)
Curtains (1983)
Alice, Sweet Alice (1976)

[Nighthawk76]

Originally Posted by JamesG

I was checking out some various lists on underrated or forgotten slasher flicks:


Alone in the Dark (1982)
Dr. Giggles (1992)
Graduation Day (1981)
He Knows You're Alone (1980)
The Initiation (1984)
Jack-O (1995)
Lovers Lane (1999)
Madhouse (1981)
New Year's Evil (1981)
Offerings (1989)
You Better Watch Out (1980)
Curtains (1983)
Alice, Sweet Alice (1976)

He Knows You're Alone is really good. I love Graduation Day!!!!

[Torgo]

Originally Posted by Shine

Another one I liked that I didn't have enough room to put on my list is 1980's The Boogey Man. I like that one. Halloween and Friday the 13th were two of my earliest horror movie experiences.

The Boogey Man is great. The TV Spots used to scare me when they aired

I have the double feature DVD with The Boogey Man and the director's other movie The Devonsville Terror.

The Boogey Man 2 was awful as the majority of the movie is just scenes from the first. The Return Of The Boogeyman was just as bad.

[Torgo]

Originally Posted by JamesG

I was checking out some various lists on underrated or forgotten slasher flicks:


Alone in the Dark (1982)
Dr. Giggles (1992)
Graduation Day (1981)
He Knows You're Alone (1980)
The Initiation (1984)
Jack-O (1995)
Lovers Lane (1999)
Madhouse (1981)
New Year's Evil (1981)
Offerings (1989)
You Better Watch Out (1980)
Curtains (1983)
Alice, Sweet Alice (1976)

I own all of these except Dr. Giggles, I was never a fan. Or Lovers Lane, though I have seen it, it's an okay Scream clone, it does have Les Nessman in it.

Offerings is a fun blatant rip off of Halloween.

I have the double feature DVD of The Initiation and Mountaintop Motel Massacre.

[Torgo]

Some others I like-

Fatal Games (1984) This is a sports themed slasher, set at a school for Olympic hopefuls. The killer's weapon of choice is a javelin. It features Sally Kirkland, and Nicholas Love (who played Willy in The Boogeyman)

Silent Madness (1984). Released in 3D. It has both Katherine Kamhi and Paul DeAngelo from Sleepaway Camp. I have copies of both 2D and 3D.

Bloody Birthday (1981) Three kids go on a killing spree.

Satan's Blade (1984) A local is possessed by an evil spirit and kills patrons at a ski lodge.

Happy Hell Night (1992) Features Darren McGavin, and Sam Rockell plays a younger version of McGavin's character in flashbacks. The killer priest is creepy, except when he talks, sadly they tried to make him like Freddy Krueger.

Hospital Massacre (1982) Starring Barbi Benton.

Iced (1988) Fun, cheesy, slasher with a snow setting. Featuring the original Wednesday Addams Lisa Loring.

The Funhouse (1981) Directed by Tobe Hooper. Dean Koontz wrote the novelization.

StageFright (1987) One of the few Italian straight up slashers.

Savage Weekend (1979) Unlike most slashers this one doesn't center around teens/college students. Features "my name is Larry" William Sanderson.

Blood Harvest (1987) Yep, the one with Tiny Tim.

Girls Nite Out (1982) I've always liked the killer's outfit being the college mascot bear costume with metal claws.

The Dorm That Dripped Blood (1982) Daphne Zuniga's film debut. Love the ending.

[Nighthawk76]

The Funhouse is one of my favorite movies ever! I don't consider it a slasher movie though. I think its more of a Universal monster movie updated for the early 80's. I'm a big Tobe Hooper fan and The Funhouse is one of my favorites from him.

[veggie-tari-jenn]

Love slasher movies.....Friday the13ths are my absolute fave...nightmare on elm street is good....halloween is good.....I like any and all slashers and b horror movies.....

[Dude111]

Here are my favourites

Halloween - 1978
Friday The 13th - 1980