Mike Miller is the executive editor on the movies team at Entertainment Weekly. He previously worked as a writer-reporter for PEOPLE and TMZ. Writer-director Chris Nash takes a stab at answering that ...

Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II is an ’80s slasher oddity, mixing Carrie horror with David Lynch’s surreal vibe.

Happy Friday the 13th! If the unluckiest of days puts you in the mood to watch a classic slasher movie like Friday the 13th, we have some recommendations. Curl up with your favorite black cat, look ...

We, as horror fans, would never be so devoted, so passionate, and so entertained without slashers. In our pop culture, it is often defined by horror and especially slashers, a subgenre that's full of ...

Fifty years ago, two independent filmmakers named Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel had a gruesome vision for a new kind of film. Their idea involved merciless kills, a chainsaw, a group of youths and a ...

The slasher is one of the most tried and true types of films in the horror genre, having been a movie staple for several decades and spawning a horde of well-known franchises. Many of those franchises ...

Slasher: The Executioner is the first season of the murder mystery TV series that revolves around a town and its mysterious serial killings. If you have watched Scream, the Slasher series will be of ...

There’s no doubt that the 1980s were a prime decade for American horror cinema in general—as we observed in a previous list of obscure zombie films of the decade, this was a time period when new ...

Slasher films were all the rage in the 1980s. Thanks to the likes of Michael Myers in Halloween and Jason Voorhees in the Friday the 13th franchise, along with their many clones, it seemed like a new ...

To paraphrase John Huston’s villainous Noah Cross in “Chinatown,” politicians, old buildings, and disreputable movie genres all get respectable if they last long enough. Take the slasher film, for ...

The Slasher franchise has had a rabid fanbase since 2016 when the series launched. The fifth chapter takes the franchise back to the late 19th century, with a killer stalking the streets. Instead of ...