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BACKGROUND HISTORY ON SLASHER GENRE

BACKGROUND HISTORY ON SLASHER GENRE. What Are Slasher Films. Slasher film is a sub-genre of the horror film genre involving a psychopathic killer stalking and killing a sequence of victims in a graphically violent manner, often with a cutting tool such as a chainsaw.

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BACKGROUND HISTORY ON SLASHER GENRE

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  1. BACKGROUND HISTORY ON SLASHER GENRE

  2. What Are Slasher Films • Slasher film is a sub-genre of the horror film genre involving a psychopathic killer stalking and killing a sequence of victims in a graphically violent manner, often with a cutting tool such as a chainsaw. • Although the term "slasher" may be used as a generic term for any horror movie involving graphic acts of murder, the slasher as a genre has its own set of characteristics which set it apart from related genres like the splatter film. 

  3. Influences And Origins • The earliest film that could be called a slasher, Thirteen Women (1932) tells the story of an old college sorority whose former members are set against one another by a vengeful peer, seeking penance for the prejudice they bestowed on her because of her mixed race heritage. Another film important to the sub-genre is Michael Powell's Peeping Tom (1960). • The film's plot centres around a man who kills women while using a portable movie camera to record their dying expressions. The film was immensely controversial when first released, critics called it misogynistic (similar to the slasher films of the golden age)

  4. Thirteen Women (1932) Thirteen Women (1932) is a psychological thriller film, produced by David O. Selznick and directed by George Archainbaud. It starred Myrna Loy, Irene Dunne, Ricardo Cortez, Florence Eldridge and Jill Esmond. Several characters were deleted, including those played by Leon Amesand Betty Furness (in her film debut at the age of sixteen).

  5. Influences And Origins The Splatter Film • The self-proclaimed "guru of gore, Herschell Gordon Lewis," invented the splatter film in 1963 with the release of Blood Feast. Blood Feast was made quickly and cheaply but differed from its genre generation in that it featured the stalking and disfigurement of beautiful women. Lewis went on to use this successful formula to make movies such as 2000 Maniacs, Color Me Blood Red and The Gruesome Twosome.

  6. Early Slashers • It wasn't until the huge box office success of John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) and Sean S. Cunningham's Friday the 13th (1980), both of which spawned numerous sequels and countless imitators that endlessly recycled their predecessors' character archetypes and plot. • Halloween, though not the first film of its kind, was the first to introduce the concept of the slasher as an indestructible evil force and is often considered the film responsible for the rise of the slasher trend, popularizing many of what would become key elements in the genre. A long series of slasher films started to be produced, though  Halloween actually has far less graphic violence than the slasher genre has become known for.

  7. HALLOWEN Halloween is a 1978 American independent horror film set in the fictional suburban  Midwestern town of Haddonfield, Illinois, USA on Halloween.

  8. GOLDEN AGE •  My Bloody Valentine •  New Year's Evil • Happy Birthday to Me • April Fool's Day,  • Prom Night • Mother's Day • Silent Night, Deadly Night (followed by such others as Bloody Birthday, Hell Night, Terror Train,

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