Retro Slashers

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Proto-Slashers: Looking at the flicks that paved the way for Halloween and the heyday of slasher movies.

The practical joke gone wrong, such a staple of the slasher film. Hell Night, The Burning, Slaughter High – a common device within the genre is justifying the killer’s motives by using the prank as a catalyst, in an attempt to create sympathy and humanise the antagonist. It gives the audience some light humour, creates [...]