Sentences with phrase «slasher subgenre»

Horror movies have experienced an insane renaissance over the course of the last few years, but the slasher subgenre has fallen oddly silent.

A predecessor to the slasher subgenre, it's said to have heavily influenced the Friday the 13th films.

Despite its popularity in film, the teen slasher subgenre has never made its way to games.

Not exact matches

The references have ranged from thematic to blatant — as in, literal writing on the wall — and they span several horror subgenres, from old slasher movies and Japanese horror to mid-aughts-style torture porn.

The most fun that could be had at the movies this year, Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon's clever, funny, scary feature lovingly deconstructs the creaky subgenre of the slasher flick and puts it back together into something that winks at the familiar tropes while never skimping on being rollickingly entertaining in its own right.

The definition of a slasher film varies depending on who you ask, but in general, it contains several specific traits that feed into the subgenre's formula.

By the time Halloween II came out in 1981, the success of John Carpenter's 1978 original had already unleashed a slew of imitators in the odious «slasher» subgenre, and critics were primed to take it out on the sequel.

If you look at the film industry, you have a wide variety of genres and subgenres to choose from: you have slashers, gore movies, body horror and psychological horror movies.