My new article at Anorak gazes at the 1980s, and the era of the slasher film (or as some call it, the slasher glut...).
FOLLOWING the incredible box-office and critical success of John
Carpenter’s Halloween (1978), the slasher film
quickly became the go-to-format for up-and-coming horror filmmakers in the
1980s. These films had titles like Happy
Birthday to Me (1981) and My Bloody Valentine (1981), and most of them concerned
bloody massacres on holidays.
Although critics denigrated these slasher
films as “dead teenager movies” or “knife-kill” films and slammed
their apparent sense of misogyny, and formulaic story lines, the slasher craze
of the epoch actually produced a number of great and memorable horror films.
In the thick of things, however, critics weren’t necessarily able
to distinguish the good slasher films from the bad ones, and so below is a list
of five slasher films that, on retrospect, are much better and much more
artistic than their reputations indicate:"
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