Most of the iconic slasher movie villains have a signature weapon they use to kill their (mostly) innocent victims; Jason Voorhees has a machete, Michael Myers has a kitchen knife, Freddy Krueger has ...

Mike Miller is the executive editor on the movies team at Entertainment Weekly. He previously worked as a writer-reporter for PEOPLE and TMZ. Writer-director Chris Nash takes a stab at answering that ...

Slasher films were all the rage in the 1980s. Thanks to the likes of Michael Myers in Halloween and Jason Voorhees in the Friday the 13th franchise, along with their many clones, it seemed like a new ...

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 ...

Slayer icons such as Ghostface prove that anyone can be the killer, adding to its meta-commentary and parodic elements. Michael Myers terrifies his victims with cold callousness in the Halloween ...

The history of horror movies is littered with plenty of underrated gems, and the slasher genre has produced more than its fair share of unsung classics. Though the origin of the slasher film is hotly ...

For decades, one of the most prevalent subgenres in horror is the slasher. The barebones definition of a slasher, according to Merriam Webster, is a person who kills with an edged blade. Along with ...