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A memorable weapon (a knife, a chainsaw, a hook, a… salt shaker).
Mix them, bend them, subvert them however you wish — these are the core elements of the slasher movie, one of horror’s most successful subgenres.
Born of the thrills created by Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978) and Sean S. Cunningham’s Friday the 13th (1980), slashers reached their heights in the early ’80s as the successors to proto-slashers like Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960), Mario Bava’s A Bay of Blood (1971), along with a host of Italian giallo films and independent North American films that established the early tropes.
By the mid-’80s, slashers, which were coming out nearly weekly, hit a downward trend until Wes Craven revitalized the formula with A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984).
Whether these recent slasher films have worked as nostalgic callbacks, unique subversions or served as signs of the time, audiences are hungry for more.
And part of that enduring enthusiasm is in part thanks to Maxine Minx (Mia Goth), who turned heads in Ti West’s throwback slasher X (2022), which led to a prequel Pearl (2022) and the highly anticipated sequel now in theaters, MaXXXine.
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