Since the boom in the ’80s,the slasher genrehas been on a slow decline.
But in recent years, slashers have received a new breath of life and are slowly being resurrected.
They perfectly encapsulate what a modern slasher movie looks like.
In the first film, Art stalks and tries to kill three women on Halloween night.
8Bodies Bodies Bodies
Modern horror movies mean dealing with modern questions.
How would the self-centered, social-media-obsessed teens and young adults of Gen Z react in a life-threatening situation?
Bodies Bodies Bodies has the answer: pure and absolute chaos.
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To pass time, the group decides to play a game that quickly goes horribly wrong.
Now, theyre forced to uncover if somebody among them isnt who they say they are.
7In A Violent Nature
Have you ever wanted to watch a horror movie from the killers perspective?
With In A Violent Nature, now you finally can.
6Fear Street Series
R.L.
Stine is among one of the horror greats.
For many, his novels were the stepping stones into the genre.
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Although the movies are a brand-new take on the series, they perfectly capture the spirit of the novels.
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After 17-year-old Jamie comes face-to-face with the maniac, she somehow finds herself back in 1987.
It has some great callbacks to the decade that started the slasher genre and is a great original concept.
4MaXXXine
Ti Wests X trilogy took the internet by storm.
While the original movies arent categorized as a slasher, the third movie fully embraces its slasher roots.
It’s set in 1980s Hollywood and Maxine Minx has finally gotten her big break on the big screen.
Mix soon realizes that its not so easy to leave her past behind.
3They/Them
Horror has always seen queer storylines featured more prominently than any other genre.
It has been used to express queer identities, both explicitly and through subtext.
But with They/Them, theres very little subtext to sift through.
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This indie horror gem has a lot in common with the queer cult classic.
While it’s great that the movie features queer characters, there are some things the movie gets wrong.
Nonetheless, its a new take on slashers that we should celebrate.
From Christmas to New Years, theres typically a horror movie to accompany a holiday.
But there was a gap for one holiday that legendary director Eli Roth decided to fill.
Back in 2007, Roth created a fictional trailer for his movie Grindhouse.
Years later, he finally got the chance to make his movie.
The wait was well worth it and there are some hilarious bits with even more memorable kills.
