It wasn't until the final years of the 80s that slashers finally burned out, as the established franchises grew stale and the ripoffs grew more desperate, but it wouldn't be for long.ġ996's Scream, directed by Nightmare on Elm Street creator Wes Craven, satirized the genre - while remaining a genuinely scary thriller - and became a big hit.
A deluge of copycats, including sequels to Halloween and Friday the 13th, flooded theaters throughout the first half of the 1980s, from Prom Night (1980) to My Bloody Valentine to The Burning, and just when the craze seemed ready to die, A Nightmare on Elm Street arrived in 1984 and brought in a supernatural element to the proceedings. Cunningham created the original Friday the 13th (1980), and once it too hit the big time, slashers were here to stay. Looking to cash in on its success, film producer Sean S. The earliest American (and Canadian) slashers, like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), Black Christmas (1974), Alice, Sweet Alice, and The Town That Dreaded Sundown, were carved directly out of the giallo mold.Īfter steadily rising in popularity throughout the 1970s, slashers finally exploded into the mainstream in 1978, when the genre's Trope Codifier in the form of John Carpenter's Halloween landed in theatres and became a massive smash hit. Many famed Italian directors, like Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, and Mario Bava, began their careers in the giallos, directing classic horrors like A Bay of Blood and Deep Red. The genre also has its roots in giallo films, a genre of Italian murder mysteries which rose to popularity in The '60s and The '70s, best known for their then-groundbreaking use of bloody violence and steamy sexuality. Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho is often cited as having a direct influence over the genre by introducing sympathetic characters that are unexpectedly murdered during the course of film, along with pushing the boundaries of sex and violence. The history of slashers can be divided into several distinct waves.
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