i need to know for my essay! thanks
2006-09-26 01:48:52 · 5 answers · asked by oscar quiroz 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
I would think it's because everyone gets slashed in them.
2006-09-26 01:50:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Halloween with Jamie Lee Curtis is sort of the first of the present day slasher films. While Halloween is a very scary thriller, most of the violence is either only hinted at or actually happens off screen. Halloween was very successful and spawned a series of copy cat films. Unfortunately, in my opinion, the films imitating Halloween focused on gruesome death scenes. It is interesting that many of these films can be viewed as a comment on the then emerging AIDS crisis. In many of them the victims met their gory end after having sex. It was often the virginal female lead who ended up being the sole survivor.
2006-09-26 08:33:26 · answer #2 · answered by Jeff S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like your answer Jeff S. 'Slasher', from my personal memory, was a term I first 'heard'/'saw used' in the horror magazine, Fangoria in the early 80's right after the onslaught of copy-cat movies derived from the success of 'Halloween' and 'Friday The 13th'. Alfred Hitchcock's Pcycho is considered the 'first' slasher film. 'Halloween', the first modern-day slasher film. 'Scream' and 'The Ring' perhaps, now-a-days slasher films.
2006-09-26 14:33:43 · answer #3 · answered by Army Of Machines (Wi-Semper-Fi)! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would have assumed because people kept getting slashed... such as Freddy, Jason and Michael Myers, they did a bit of slashing
2006-09-26 01:53:23 · answer #4 · answered by cino_bean 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dates back to the Wolfman the first creature to slash his victims to death.
2006-09-26 01:59:04 · answer #5 · answered by LORD Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋