When it comes to the horror genre, one type of film clearly ruled the 1980s: the slasher movie. Based on a template largely established by John Carpenter’s 1978 classic Halloween – with a hat tip also due to Bob Clark’s 1974 effort Black Christmas – the slasher sub-genre originally ran on the simple but often effective formula of a silent, stealthy killer stalking a group of teenagers or young adults and killing them off one by one. The climax would then feature the “final girl” engaging in a showdown with her tormentor.
That formula was upended in 1984, with the release of Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street. Featuring an imaginative premise ...
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