The 30 slasher films on this list are the game changers, the rule breakers, the iconic, and the absolutely terrifying
Classic slashers: Scream, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and Psycho. Photo: Vortex/Dimension Films/Paramount Pictures This article originally ran in 2018. We’re republishing it with Bodies Bodies Bodies now in theaters.
Peeping Tom Photo: Astor Pictures Corporation The backlash for this British psychological horror film was so strong upon release that director Michael Powell never made another British film again. Revolving around an aspiring filmmaker that uses his camera to murder women while simultaneously capturing their dying expression on film, the violence, sexual content, and voyeuristic themes proved too much for audiences to handle at the time.
Available to stream on Shudder Shudder Torso Sergio Martino’s giallo lacks the visual style of his Italian colleagues; really, his nihilistic Torso has a lot more in common with the American slasher. It follows a mysterious masked killer who stalks and butchers female college students. He’s particularly nasty to the promiscuous, and like most slasher antagonists, he has a vendetta against those he feels wronged him for a past misdeed.
Stream on Pluto TV and Vudu Pluto TV Vudu Alice, Sweet Alice Set in the 1960s, Alice, Sweet Alice sees a 9-year-old girl murdered on the day she’s to receive her First Communion, an inciting event that sets off a string of murders. This film, directed by Alfred Sole, breaks multiple taboos, first by killing a young child early on, and then again by having the girl’s 12-year-old sister Alice as the main suspect behind the slayings.
Rent on Amazon and iTunes Amazon iTunes Maniac Director William Lustig’s Maniac bucks the typical formula. Lustig presents his slasher, told entirely from the perspective of Frank Zito , a killer with a penchant for scalping women and conversing with his mannequins, from a gritty, psychological perspective. Zito still stalks and kills his prey in gruesome fashion, and this slasher does have a Final Girl in Anna .
Available to stream on Tubi and Freevee Tubi Freevee The Slumber Party Massacre Directed and produced by Amy Holden Jones, and written by Rita Mae Brown, The Slumber Party Massacre appears to be just another generic horror flick at first glance. The simple plot follows a, yes, slumber party gone wrong when a power-tool-wielding maniac crashes the party and picks off the girls one by one.
Stream on Pluto TV Pluto TV A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors Long before writing and helming the Stephen King adaptations Shawshank Redemption and The Mist, Frank Darabont co-wrote one of the best slasher sequels of all time with director Chuck Russell.
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