Research in to Slasher movies.

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slasher film: A subgenre of horror, related to the splatter movie. The villian, a blade welding serial killer, often has apparently supernatural powers of survival. The victims are usually youg, attractive and sexually active. Early examples include peeping tom (Michael Powell, UK, 1960) and psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, USA, 1960). The genre really developed in the 1970s and 1980s with Haloween (John Carpenter, USA, 1978) Friday the 13th (sean Cunningham, USA, 1980) and a nightmare of elm street (Wes Craven, USA, 1984) by the 1990s the slasher movie was seen as a format that had run out of ideas, but the postmodern ernist series of Scream films brief revitalised the genre.