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Slasher Films

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1. Black Christmas (1974)
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People who added this item 56  Average listal rating (32 ratings) 5  IMDB Rating
2. Prom Night (1980)
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If you're not back by midnight...you won't be coming home.

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People who added this item 25  Average listal rating (14 ratings) 6.3  IMDB Rating 5.7 
3. My Bloody Valentine (1981)
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There's more than one way to lose your heart...

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People who added this item 20  Average listal rating (11 ratings) 6.5  IMDB Rating 5.3 
4. Happy Birthday to Me (1981)
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John Will Never Eat Shish Kebab Again.

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5. Curtains (1983)

People who added this item 594  Average listal rating (395 ratings) 7.1  IMDB Rating
6. Halloween (1978)
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The Night HE Came Home!

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Definitely one of my favourite slasher films. Great atmosphere, and relies more on suspense, and "creepniness", than lots of violence/gore, like a lot of slashers tend to. In fact I don't even think they spill a single drop of blood in this film, and most of the violence is offscreen, but the good directing, and atmosphere more than make up for it. It goes to show that great effects are cool, but aren't everything. It also has a great soundtrack. I am quite fond of Caprenter's synth scores, and Carpenter's films.



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People who added this item 195  Average listal rating (122 ratings) 6  IMDB Rating 6.3 
7. Halloween II (1981)
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More Of The Night He Came Home

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The tagline pretty much sums this film up. Like most slashers of it's time it was just an attempt to cash in on the slasher craze sparked by it's predecessor. This second installment of the Halloween series relies more on on-screen violence to shock you, and because of this Michael gets a bit more screen time. At least they still had the original mask for this one.

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People who added this item 130  Average listal rating (75 ratings) 5.2  IMDB Rating 5.6 
8. Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
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People who added this item 111  Average listal rating (68 ratings) 5.2  IMDB Rating 4.5 
9. Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)
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People who added this item 75  Average listal rating (47 ratings) 4.4  IMDB Rating 4.4 
10. Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)
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People who added this item 299  Average listal rating (191 ratings) 4.6  IMDB Rating 5.3 
11. Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
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People who added this item 164  Average listal rating (98 ratings) 4.3  IMDB Rating 3.9 
12. Halloween: Resurrection (2002)
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People who added this item 230  Average listal rating (154 ratings) 6.4  IMDB Rating
13. Halloween (2007)
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People who added this item 45  Average listal rating (26 ratings) 5.2  IMDB Rating 5.8 
14. April Fool's Day (1986)

People who added this item 303  Average listal rating (200 ratings) 5.4  IMDB Rating 6.2 
15. Child's Play (1988)
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People who added this item 3  Average listal rating (2 ratings) 5.5  IMDB Rating 3.9 
16. Final Exam (1981)
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People who added this item 403  Average listal rating (254 ratings) 6  IMDB Rating 6.3 
17. Friday the 13th (1980)
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They were warned...They are doomed...And on Friday the 13th, nothing will save them.

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People who added this item 185  Average listal rating (121 ratings) 5.6  IMDB Rating 5.5 
18. Friday the 13th Part II (1981)
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The body count continues...

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People who added this item 144  Average listal rating (94 ratings) 5.1  IMDB Rating 5.1 
19. Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
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People who added this item 117  Average listal rating (71 ratings) 5.4  IMDB Rating 5.2 
20. Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter (1984)
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People who added this item 90  Average listal rating (58 ratings) 4.2  IMDB Rating 3.9 
21. Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985)
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People who added this item 108  Average listal rating (67 ratings) 5  IMDB Rating 5.2 
22. Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)
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People who added this item 104  Average listal rating (61 ratings) 5.2  IMDB Rating 4.6 
23. Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)
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People who added this item 102  Average listal rating (59 ratings) 4.9  IMDB Rating 3.8 
24. Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manha... (1989)
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People who added this item 74  Average listal rating (50 ratings) 4.4  IMDB Rating
25. Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)
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People who added this item 141  Average listal rating (115 ratings) 4.2  IMDB Rating 4.4 
26. Jason X (2001)
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People who added this item 135  Average listal rating (82 ratings) 5.5  IMDB Rating 5.7 
27. Friday the 13th (2009)
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People who added this item 23  Average listal rating (2 ratings) 3  IMDB Rating
28. A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

People who added this item 680  Average listal rating (436 ratings) 6.7  IMDB Rating 7.4 
29. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
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If Nancy Doesn't Wake Up Screaming She Won't Wake Up At All.

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I've always enjoyed this film, and as a kid actually found it pretty scary. Freddy was always pretty much what I figured the boogey man to be like. I'd say it was the first film to actually get me interested in horror films, and so it's kind of like my first love. This film also has some of my favourite horror movie theme music.

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People who added this item 219  Average listal rating (136 ratings) 5.3  IMDB Rating 4.8 
30. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Reveng... (1985)
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The Man of Your Dreams Is Back.

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"There's something inside of me."
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Not a bad film, I guess, but it has some very strong homo erotic undertones. I'm not sure if this was intentional, or not, but it certainly makes for a different kind of nightmare.

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People who added this item 204  Average listal rating (141 ratings) 6  IMDB Rating 6.2 
31. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
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People who added this item 185  Average listal rating (127 ratings) 5.4  IMDB Rating 5.2 
32. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Maste... (1988)
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People who added this item 150  Average listal rating (98 ratings) 4.9  IMDB Rating 4.7 
33. A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)
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People who added this item 267  Average listal rating (158 ratings) 5.1  IMDB Rating 4.4 
34. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)
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People who added this item 379  Average listal rating (244 ratings) 5.1  IMDB Rating 5.8 
35. Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
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People who added this item 6  Average listal rating (3 ratings) 5.3  IMDB Rating 5.1 
36. Bloody Birthday (1981)

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37. Criminally Insane (1975)

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38. Death Screams (1982)

People who added this item 3  Average listal rating (2 ratings) 2.5  IMDB Rating 4.1 
39. Don't Answer the Phone! (1980)

People who added this item 8  Average listal rating (4 ratings) 6.5  IMDB Rating
40. Don't Go in the House (1980)

People who added this item 3  Average listal rating (1 ratings) 1  IMDB Rating 2.4 
41. Don't Open 'Til Christmas (1984)

People who added this item 0  Average listal rating (0 ratings) 0  IMDB Rating 5.1 
42. Don't Open the Door! (1975)

People who added this item 20  Average listal rating (12 ratings) 4.8  IMDB Rating 4.7 
43. The Driller Killer (1979)

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44. Drive in Massacre (1977)

People who added this item 1  Average listal rating (1 ratings) 5  IMDB Rating 2.5 
45. Girls Nite Out (1984)

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46. Graduation Day (1981)

People who added this item 11  Average listal rating (6 ratings) 5.3  IMDB Rating 5.3 
47. Hell Night (1981)
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People who added this item 0  Average listal rating (0 ratings) 0  IMDB Rating 4.1 
48. Hospital Massacre (1982)

People who added this item 844  Average listal rating (543 ratings) 5  IMDB Rating 5.4 
49. I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)

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50. Just Before Dawn (1981)
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Comments

Posted : 6 months, 2 weeks ago at May 8 14:03
Good luck, there are thousands of slashers :)
Posted : 6 months, 2 weeks ago at May 8 17:23
Oh I know...

I'm still going to try to make as complete a list as I can though. :D
Posted : 5 months, 3 weeks ago at May 28 21:00
Cool to see someone else trying to list all the slashers out there. I started a list about 2 years ago, and I have over 2000 listed now. It really depends on what your definition of the term "slasher" is, but you seem pretty loose with the meaning.
Posted : 5 months, 3 weeks ago at May 31 13:19
Thanks for the comments!

This list is still just a work in progress. In addition to adding more films, I may end up pruning films as well, if I ultimately decide they don't quite fit. But you are right, I am being pretty loose with the term "slasher".


Posted : 5 months, 3 weeks ago at May 31 14:24
Well, if you ever need any help, message me.

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Description

Slashers new and old, good and bad, and everything in between. For those of you who do not know what a "slasher film" is, and are curious, here is Wikipedia's description of a slasher film:

"The slasher film is a sub-genre of the horror film typically involving a psychopathic killer stalking and killing a sequence of victims in a graphically violent manner. 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."

Some of the films on this list - arguably - may not be considered conventional slasher films, but have been heavily influenced by them, and contain most of the same elements. If a film contains a psychopath (masked or unmasked) who stalks and kills people (often groups of teenagers) in violent ways (usually using various implements), then it is probably on this list. This list also contains films which are considered to be "proto-slashers", meaning earlier films that were influential to the slasher sub-genre (like Psycho for example), and helped lay the foundation for slashers to come. The lines defining the slasher sub-genre can get a bit blurry at times, so for the purposes of this list I have chosen not to include any gialli, or rape revenge films. Even though most gialli and a lot of rape revenge films could be considered slasher films as well, they will get their own lists.

This list is a work in progress. I am also adding trailers to the films that don't have them, if I can find the trailer on YouTube, as well as better quality poster images, if I can find them.

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