▶ watchobscureBoardinghouse
1982 · USA · 88m
The first shot-on-video horror feature, blown up to 35mm and just as ugly as that sounds.
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▶ watchobscureHuman Lanterns
1982 · Hong Kong · 99m
A Shaw wuxia that turns into a slasher, with lanterns made of human skin.
▶ watchobscureRituals
1977 · Canada/USA · 99m
The Canadian Deliverance, and grimmer than the nickname promises.
▶ watchcultThe Toolbox Murders
1978 · USA · 93m
A proto-slasher that front-loads its nastiness, then becomes a different and stranger film.
▶ watchcultPieces
1982 · Spain · 85m
Spanish, incoherent, and gleefully stupid. 'Bastard! Bastard!'
▶ watchcultTourist Trap
1979 · USA · 89m
Mannequins that move, telekinesis, and a masked killer. Far stranger than a slasher should be.
▶ watchcultHell Night
1981 · USA · 101m
Linda Blair, a frat hazing, an old dark house. Atmosphere over arterial spray, and better for it.
▶ watchcultTales from the Crypt
1972 · UK/USA · 93m
The best Amicus omnibus, and Joan Collins versus a killer Santa two years before Black Christmas.
▶ watchknownStageFright
1987 · Italy · 90m
A killer in a giant owl mask, a locked theatre, and Soavi announcing himself.
▶ watchknownThe Slumber Party Massacre
1982 · USA · 76m
Written as satire, shot straight, and stranger than either choice on its own.
▶ watch⊘ bannedknownThe Funhouse
1981 · USA · 95m
Tobe Hooper does a carnival slasher. A deformed killer, a hall of mirrors, and real dread.
▶ watchknownAlice, Sweet Alice
1976 · USA · 108m
American giallo in Catholic New Jersey. Genuinely disturbing and well acted.
▶ watch⊘ bannedknownManiac
1980 · USA · 88m
Savini's effects, Spinell's performance, and a very bleak little film.
▶ watchknownTerror Train
1980 · Canada · 97m
A costume party on a moving train, a killer swapping disguises, and Jamie Lee Curtis again.
▶ watchknownHappy Birthday to Me
1981 · Canada · 110m
A prestige director slumming in the glut, and a poster more famous than the film.
▶ watchknownSleepaway Camp
1983 · USA · 85m
Ninety minutes of nothing, then an ending nobody who has seen it forgets.
▶ watch⊘ bannedknownThe Prowler
1981 · USA · 89m
A killer in WWII combat gear stalks a graduation dance. Savini's best gore work.
▶ watchknownMy Bloody Valentine
1981 · Canada · 90m
Canadian, mine-set, unusually well shot. The censored cut ruined it for decades.
▶ watch⊘ bannedknownThe Burning
1981 · Canada/USA · 91m
The raft scene is the best kill in any slasher. The rest is fine.
▶ watchknownSilent Night, Deadly Night
1984 · USA · 79m
The killer-Santa movie that got itself run out of cinemas in a week.
▶ watch⊘ bannedknownProm Night
1980 · Canada · 93m
Jamie Lee Curtis, a masked killer, and a decade-old secret. Halloween cashes in, disco included.
▶ watchknownManiac Cop
1988 · USA · 85m
A dead cop stalks New York in uniform. Larry Cohen writes, Robert Z'Dar's jaw does the rest.
▶ watch⊘ bannedknownA Bay of Blood
1971 · Italy · 85m
Bava invents the slasher a decade early. Friday the 13th copied two kills outright.
▶ watchknownHigh Tension
2003 · France · 91m
Aja before Hollywood, at maximum brutality, with a twist that still starts fights.
▶ watchcanonBlack Christmas
1974 · Canada · 98m
Predates Halloween and is scarier. The phone calls still work.
▶ watch⊘ bannedcanonThe Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1974 · USA · 83m
Almost bloodless, and still the most upsetting film here. The heat is the horror.
▶ watch⊘ bannedcanonFriday the 13th
1980 · USA · 95m
Cynical, derivative, and it industrialised the whole form. Savini's finest hour.
▶ watchcanonHalloween
1978 · USA · 91m
$325,000 into $70 million, and every slasher after it is a photocopy.