Teenage Slasher Movie Book, 2nd Revised and Expanded Edition

The Definitive Slasher Movie Reference The slasher movie is the most reviled but successful of horror''s subgenres. Taking its cue from Hitchcock, grind-house movies, and the gory Italian giallo thrillers of the 1970s, slasher movies brought a new high in cinematic violence and suspense to mainstream cinema. For six bloody years (1978-1984)—the golden age of slashers—cinema screens and video store...