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2[[caption-width-right:286:Here, we can see a slasher movie killer in their natural habitat: stalking the FinalGirl.]]
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4->''"Zombie movies are about groups: outside, the zombies are legion; inside, the humans struggle to work together. Slasher movies are about individuals: [[SerialKiller one man]] is doing all the killing, and only [[FinalGirl one girl]] will outwit him and survive."''
5-->-- '''Sara Bickley''', reviewing ''Film/TheRuins''
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7Movies about [[NighInvulnerability near-indestructible]] {{Serial Killer}}s stalking attractive young women, a combination that allows for buckets of gore ''and'' enough flesh to titillate.
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9[[StockSlasher The killers]], mostly driven by {{revenge}}, are also typically somewhat MadeOfIron, at a minimum, and frequently [[ImplacableMan Implacable]] to boot. Slashers prefer melee weapons that let them get up close and personal with their victims and almost never use [[DoesntLikeGuns firearms]]. Many are borderline (or explicitly) supernatural, having the ability to appear and disappear [[StealthHiBye as if by magic]]. The corpses of their victims tend to be equally elusive; a slasher killer can whisk away a fully-grown adult's body in seconds, leaving not a single drop of blood behind, or swiftly arrange all their victims into an elaborate tableau, [[OffscreenTeleportation without ever being seen lugging the dead bodies around]]. The more explicitly supernatural killers will have powers that range from SuperStrength (all the better to [[BarrierBustingBlow pull their victims through walls]]), the ability to [[DreamWalker appear in dreams and attack the dreamers]], or other ghostly abilities. Slasher movie killers are always [[https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/horror-movies/the-50-best-slasher-movies-of-all-time/ human or entities that were human at some point]] who have been transformed into remorseless killers and their actions can be seen as [[CompleteMonster pure evil]].
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11The victims are usually teenagers or young adults, all usually [[TheScourgeOfGod guilty of some minor to moderate vice]], which may tie into motives of revenge on the killer's part. Once the audience has had a convincing demonstration of their (usually [[SexSignalsDeath sexual]]) misdemeanours, they are [[JustForFun/HowToKillACharacter spectacularly slaughtered]]. If there's more than one sin or minority to pick from then the SortingAlgorithmOfMortality comes into play.
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13Eventually, there will be only one girl left standing, the FinalGirl, normally the only "morally pure" member of the main cast. With varying levels of luck, learning or knowing how to survive, and, often enough, considerable help from her [[MonsterThreatExpiration death battle exemption]], she will kill the killer.
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15Come the next sequel, it will be revealed that the killer was actually NotQuiteDead, or in some cases, [[LegacyCharacter inspired someone to take up their mantle]].
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17A subset of the {{Horror}} genre, slashers usually also contain at least a few {{Thriller}} elements, although the schlockier examples replace suspense almost entirely with gore. They are often considered [[BMovie B-movies]].
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19The history of slashers can be divided into several distinct waves. Creator/AlfredHitchcock's ''Film/{{Psycho}}'' and Creator/MichaelPowell's ''Film/PeepingTom'', both released in 1960, are frequently cited as early forerunners to the genre, which had a direct influence on subsequent films by introducing sympathetic characters who are unexpectedly murdered during the course of film, along with pushing the boundaries of sex and violence. The genre also has its roots in ''{{giallo}}'' films, a genre of Italian murder mysteries which rose to popularity in TheSixties and TheSeventies, best known for their then-groundbreaking use of bloody violence and steamy sexuality. Many famed Italian directors, like Creator/DarioArgento, Creator/LucioFulci, and Creator/MarioBava, began their careers in the ''giallos'', directing classic horrors like ''Film/ABayOfBlood'' and ''Film/DeepRed''. The earliest American (and Canadian) slashers, including ''Film/TheTexasChainSawMassacre1974'', ''Film/BlackChristmas1974'', ''Film/AliceSweetAlice'', and ''Film/TheTownThatDreadedSundown'', were carved directly from the giallo mold.
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21After steadily rising in popularity throughout the 1970s, slashers finally exploded into the mainstream in 1978, when the genre's TropeCodifier in the form of Creator/JohnCarpenter's ''Film/{{Halloween|1978}}'' landed in movie theaters and became a massive smash hit. Looking to cash in on its success, film producer Sean S. Cunningham created the original ''Film/FridayThe13th1980'', and once it too hit the big time, slashers were here to stay. A deluge of copycats, including sequels to ''Halloween'' and ''Friday the 13th'', flooded theaters throughout the first half of the 1980s, from ''Film/PromNight1980'' to ''Film/MyBloodyValentine'' to ''Film/TheBurning'', and just when the craze seemed ready to die, ''[[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984 A Nightmare on Elm Street]]'' arrived in 1984 and brought in a supernatural element to the proceedings. 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.
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231996's ''Film/{{Scream|1996}}'', directed by ''Nightmare on Elm Street'' creator Creator/WesCraven, [[SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror satirized the genre]]--while remaining a genuinely scary thriller--and became a big hit. Once again, studios sought to [[FollowTheLeader cash in on the film's success]], and began the second wave of slashers, with films like ''Film/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer'', ''Film/UrbanLegend'', and ''Film/{{Valentine}}''. These movies stood in rather stark contrast to their '80s brethren; good writing and characterization, considered disposable (and usually nonexistent) in the first era, were now all-important, as the plots now focused on the heroes trying to stay one step ahead of the criminals (who often based their murders on famous stories or past events in the good guys' lives) while also navigating their personal relationships, which--as teenage lives tend to be--were fraught with conflict and melodrama. The genre again petered out by the end of the 90s, due to parodies like ''Film/ScaryMovie'' as well as [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents the sudden tragedy of]] UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} and the rise of the J-Horror and TorturePorn flicks that dominated the [[TurnOfTheMillennium following decade]], but once again, it wouldn't be for long.
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25By the back half of the '00s, nostalgia for the original era of slashers began to rise (piggybacking on the usual way pop-culture nostalgia tends to be TwoDecadesBehind), and with nostalgia comes remakes. ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre2003'', ''Film/{{Halloween 2007}}'' and ''Film/FridayThe13th2009'' all returned, and a whole flood of new slashers, both remakes and original movies, followed once again in their wake. Now, in TheNewTens, it seems as though slashers are here to stay, with films like ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet2010'', ''Film/YoureNext'', ''Film/{{Hatchet}}'', and ''Film/TuckerAndDaleVsEvil'' able to safely co-exist with the more popular ghost- and demon-themed chillers of the decade. Time will tell if it stays that way.
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27Creator/RogerEbert called these movies "Dead Teenager Movies" due to their focus on teenagers getting killed. Another popular nickname is "Bodycount Films[=/=]Movies".
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29Keep in mind that, while every slasher movie features a serial killer or a spree killer, not every serial killer or spree killer movie is a slasher movie. Films with non-human antagonists who lack a conscience and vengeful motivation, e.g. [[Film/{{M3gan}} killer robots]], [[Film/FinalDestination fate]], [[Film/{{Predator}} aliens hunting for sport]], and [[Film/{{Jaws}} animals acting off instinct]], are generally ''not'' categorized as slasher movies even if they closely emulate their structure. Also note that a slasher film is quite different from a PsychologicalThriller, which tends to emphasize the SympathyForTheDevil part using a FreudianExcuse or two (and possibly a few PetTheDog moments in the killer's favor), and de-emphasize the FinalGirl, often [[CharactersDroppingLikeFlies killing off all characters]]. Many slasher movies are {{Exploitation Film}}s, especially ones focusing on the gore and girls.
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31Also not to be confused with HackAndSlash video games, which are occasionally referred to as "slashers".
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33Want to write your own slasher flick? We have [[SoYouWantTo/WriteASlasherHorrorStory a handy writer's guide]] for anybody looking to do just that.
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37[[folder:Tropes Applicable to the Genre:]]
38* AdultsAreUseless: Parents, teachers, [[PoliceAreUseless police]] or any other kind of authority figure are either blissfully unaware of what's happening or being obstructive and denying it. In the case of the ''Nightmare on Elm Street'' series, they're almost villains themselves.
39* AnyoneCanDie: Obviously, nearly nobody is safe from the death by the hand of the slasher killers. Expect decently high body counts and survivors falling further into this trope come sequels.
40* AssholeVictim: Particularly noteworthy in more than enough of them, with enough here and there among simply clueless usual victims in ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' (the later entries at least) and ''Franchise/FridayThe13th''; averted in ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'', where almost every victim is made to be sympathetic.
41* AxCrazy: The killer is often this, though in literal terms, axes are far from their only weapons.
42* BarrierBustingBlow: The killers in these kinds of films have the ability to punch through walls and doors to grab their prey, be it with aid of a weapon, tenacity, or strength rivaling that of Dr. Frankenstein's monster.
43* BlackDudeDiesFirst[=/=]BuryYourGays: Character who is a part of a minority is usually as good as dead.
44* CoolMask: On quite some number of the killers. Usually leads to DramaticUnmask.
45* CreepyBasement: You can always expect at least one death in here.
46* CruelAndUnusualDeath: At least one death in many of these movies will qualify for this.
47* DarkSecret: One of these lies at the core of most of these films, usually as the reason that the killer is on the rampage.
48* DeadlyPrank: Some slasher movies have one of these as the way that one of the victims is killed. This can also be the original wrong that drives a revenge-motivated slasher (see ''Film/TheBurning'' for an early and influential case, and ''Film/UrbanLegend'' for a recent example).
49* DarkAndTroubledPast: Very, very common for both the villain/monster (after all, there's usually some reason they've become merciless killers) and some of their potential victims (possibly to justify why the killer is hunting them, to try and broaden out their character, or even to make the audience feel like their death was partly deserved).
50* DeathByGenreSavvy: Ran into the ground by lesser filmmakers when ''Film/{{Scream 1996}}'' made it popular, and mostly set aside during the age of Torture Porn.
51* DeathByPragmatism: You wouldn't have a very long movie if everyone did the intelligent thing and stuck together.
52* {{Determinator}}: Both killers and even final girls are well known for enduring wounds and, in any case, not giving up.
53* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: Typical slasher movie opens with a kill or two, and then use the next thirty minutes to establish the main cast for the grand slaughter to come. Since these people are, overall, more often meant to be expendable enough to the audience, they can come across as annoying, clueless, outright foolish, and/or outright jerks.
54* DontGoInTheWoods / SummerCampy: Summer camps and backwoods are a popular setting, owing to ''Friday the 13th'''s use of these locales.
55* DwindlingParty: Many slashers begin with a group of six to 10 teen-agers or young college students, often representing a cross section of interests and so forth. One by one, the antagonist (often a deeply troubled individual, but just as often someone who is with an unclear motive, possibly just pure evil) will kill off the kids in the most brutal way possible. Usually, only or two will survive in the end ... sometimes to help defeat the bad guy (usually by luring the villain into one of his own traps or by holding him off long enough for the hero to arrive), other times just leave to feel fortunate to survive. More than once, it is the villain who reigns supreme in the end by killing the last remaining opponent, often in a one-sided fight that ends with the most brutal, elaborate death.
56* TheEndOrIsIt: A common ending twist, especially where the makers are hoping to get a [[VillainBasedFranchise franchise]] started.
57* EveryoneIsASuspect: In movies where the killer's identity isn't known.
58* {{Fanservice}}: One of the reasons why the genre became popular.
59* FinalGirl: The TropeMaker. The trope was named by Carol J. Clover in her examination of the genre.
60* FollowTheLeader: These films tend to follow the path shown by the most successful entries.
61* {{Gorn}}: The name of the game in these movies (although some of the most famous examples, such as ''Film/TheTexasChainSawMassacre1974'' and ''Film/{{Halloween 1978}}'', are rather pointedly ''not'' very explicit - not to mention how censorship had removed a lot of vicious effects from theatrical releases in films).
62* GunsAreUseless: If you could just shoot the villains/monsters and kill them, that'd be pretty anticlimactic.
63* TheHeavy: Most of the films have the killer as the center of the story.
64* HockeyMaskAndChainsaw: Although in references to these films rather than in the actual films.
65* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: These films usually take place on holidays and such.
66* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: It's not uncommon for many slasher victims to meet this fate, whether by the killer's knife or through some other unfortunate circumstance.
67* ImplacableMan: Killers in these movies are rather hard to kill, if not [[NighInvulnerability nigh-indestructible]].
68* ImprovisedWeapon: To provide creative deaths, the killers will use whatever they can get their hands on to kill their victims.
69* InvincibleVillain: An unstoppable killer involves AcceptableBreaksFromReality since if the killer was easy to kill and never got up again, they wouldn't be a threat and you wouldn't have a franchise.
70* JobTitle: Some of the more gimmicky movies have a killer of a profession that will provide thematic kills and quips.
71* JokerImmunity: These films have tons of sequels for a reason.
72* JustHereForGodzilla: A lot fans honestly watch to see the killer doing his thing and really don't care much about the actual story.
73* KillTheCutie: Many slashers have several white-hot nova babeilicous girls ... and they are among those who are killed in the most violent of ways, and the end result is you won't see them lying in a casket, looking like an angel. Read: bludgeoned, disfigured, mutilated, burned, etc., sometimes several of these before the onset of death ... to the point where dental and/or [=DNA=] records (if there's anything left) are required to identify their remains.
74* MalevolentMaskedMen: The killer often wears a mask, both to hide his/her identity and look more menacing. They are quite ruthless indeed, but once in a while they leave a few people alone if they don't feel a need to kill at that time.
75* MauveShirt: In enough of these movies, a few soon-to-be-victims will have a trait of theirs showcased, such as a talent or way of acting. It's not unquestionable that these movies' writers could be trying to make at least unfamiliar viewers guess which people will get offed or not. Who knows? - One of them might seem dead and pop up during the film's final struggle...
76* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Slashers tend to blur the line between fantasy and reality. Even if the killer is an explicitly normal human, his seemingly superhuman speed, strength, and stamina or just implausibility thereof via RuleofScary will rarely be given an explanation.
77* MenacingStroll: It is rare to see the killer run after their victims; they simply walk after them, only to somehow reach their victims when they are about to elude them.
78* MenAreTheExpendableGender: Male deaths are usually sudden and without struggle; it's incredibly rare to have a chase scene with a male character being chased. And in 99% of slasher movies, being male is practically a death certificate, because no matter how TooDumbToLive the FinalGirl is, she ''will'' live despite being a complete moron (examples are [[spoiler: ''Film/FridayThe13thPartIII'', ''Film/TheStrangers'', ''Mother's Day (2011)'']]).
79* MonsterMisogyny: The other side of the coin. While men can and do die in these movies, the favorite victims of many slasher killers (and the ones that usually get the more elaborate deaths) are women. The Slasher is often misnamed as a serial killer[[note]]Given the ExtremelyShortTimespan of most slasher films, they're really spree killers[[/note]] [[TruthInTelevision and 70% of serial murderer victims throughout history have been women]].
80* MonsterThreatExpiration: When everyone but the FinalGirl is dead, oftentimes the killer will abandon the tactics that enabled him to rack up the killcount in favor of going after her directly.
81* MyCarHatesMe; If you're running from the killer, expect your car to let you down at the worst possible time.
82* NoBudget: One of the reasons slasher movies are so numerous is because they generally cost so little to make they are basically guaranteed to make their money back, so they're seen as low-risk (for example, ''Film/Halloween1978'' only cost $325,000 and made ''$70 million'' at the box office).
83* NotQuiteDead: Expect this to happen when it appears the killer has been slain. If a slasher movie goes into sequels, chances are this applies to the killer as well.
84* OffWithHisHead: One of the most common deaths you'll see in these types of movies.
85* OffscreenTeleportation: To make seem the killer seem like an omnipotent force of nature, they'll simply appear when needed to.
86* OurSlashersAreDifferent: The titular monsters tend to follow their own specific natures, rules and laws about how they operate. Some are explicitly supernatural beings or creatures, normal humans, and everything in between.
87%%* PaintTheTownRed
88* PeekABooCorpse: Count on at least one of these to show up at some point to freak someone out. Slasher killers especially love using previous victims this way.
89* PhallicWeapon: Mileage may vary, but some viewers point out that the often male killers sticking women's bodies with sharp, long objects is a representation of sexual frustrations.
90* PoliceAreUseless: The cops, the guys we normally expect to be able to deal with psycho killers, are especially useless in these kinds of movies - often by getting killed off or not being informed or believing the situation in time. As always, [[ItsUpToYou it's up to the]] FinalGirl to actually stop the killer.
91* PopularityPolynomial: The slasher genre was looking dead in the water by the end of TheEighties, though some big franchises had sequels in the early years from TheNineties, before it was resurrected by ''Film/{{Scream 1996}}''. Ironically, it was a SpringtimeForHitler for Wes Craven.
92* RedShirt: Yes, even in these. Before the main cast gets it, several minor (and usually unnamed) characters will get it early on.
93* TheReveal: Usually coupled with the unmasking.
94* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Most of the killers of these movies are on a vendetta of some sort.
95* SackheadSlasher: A sackcloth mask will be readily at hand for a rural killer or someone invoking the imagery.
96* TheSavageSouth: Slashers have some tendency take place in the southern regions. Ex: ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre''.
97* TheScourgeOfGod: Many slasher killers target the "bad" people among the cast while generally leaving the "good" ones alone for the most part.
98* ScreamingWoman: An (over)used stock character in every slasher movie.
99* SerialEscalation: What's an easy way to top a slasher movie with a big body count? A sequel with an ''even bigger'' body count!
100* SerialKiller: The one doing all the killing, it wouldn’t be a slasher work without one.
101* SexSignalsDeath: If you have sex in one of these movies, rest assured that you will die. Horrifically.
102* ShaggyDogStory[=/=]ShootTheShaggyDog: The surviving protagonists generally don't get any reward for their trials. Oftentimes, their victories over the killers are completely undone in {{Sequel Hook}}s, even if the given movie doesn't have a planned sequel yet. It gets worse in that the survivors may, be it for factors like acting less intelligent or running out of luck, be the one to get taken out in the opening to a sequel.
103* ShroudedInMyth: An easy way to make the killer seem larger than life and more like a man-shaped monster than just a lunatic in dirty clothes is to make details of their past a mystery or UrbanLegend (ex. ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'', ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'').
104* SilentAntagonist: Most of the killers rarely talk, if ever (Exceptions include Freddy Krueger and Chucky the Doll).
105* SlashersPreferBlondes: Blonde girls in slasher films tend to get offed a lot, usually with more elaborate deaths. The FinalGirl is almost always brunette, in contrast to the blonde. Though of course there are exceptions.
106* SmallReferencePools: Judging by the number of parodies that feature the HockeyMaskAndChainsaw trope, it's as if ''Friday the 13th'' and ''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' were the only slasher flicks ever made.
107* StealthHiBye: Before the carnage truly unfolds, a character or two might get a peek on the killer spying on the proceedings.
108* StockSlasher: The archetypal NighInvulnerable, [[MalevolentMaskedMen masked]] and/or [[RedRightHand deformed]] killer.
109* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: {{Final Girl}}s of previous movies who sign on for sequels are especially at risk of dying, usually very early on in the movie. The Final Girl of the original ''Friday the 13th'' was famously the very first victim of Jason Voorhees.
110* ThemeSerialKiller: As slasher movies proliferated, many creators tried to distinguish their films from the pack by coming up with increasingly bizarre gimmicks for their killers.
111* ToiletHorror: Unsuspecting victims may be taken out in the bathroom.
112* TomboyishName: A common attribute of the FinalGirl.
113* TooDumbToLive: Some victims just might not be particularly GenreSavvy, but the first victim is usually in a class of his/her own. After all, if the victims were smart, chances are they wouldn't be victims.
114* TraumaButton: A killing spree is usually a result of a potential slasher being reminded of a traumatic event from his/her past.
115* VillainBasedFranchise: Especially popular with slashers.
116* WildTeenParty: One of the most common set ups.
117* TheWorfEffect: Often one of the killer's early victims will be athletic or tough in some way to show one or several things about how effective a killer he is - that he masters stealth and sudden attacks from seeming nowhere, or, in some cases at least, that simply trying to match his brute strength is hopeless.
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120!!Slasher Films with TV Tropes Articles:
121[[index]]
122[[folder:# - L]]
123* ''Film/TenToMidnight''
124* ''Film/OneHundredBloodyAcres''
125* ''Film/OneHundredTears''
126* ''Film/TwentyTwo''
127* ''Film/ThreeOhThreeFearFaithRevenge''
128* ''Film/FiveFiveFive''
129* ''Film/Absurd1981''
130* ''Film/AdultSwimYuleLog''
131* ''Film/AfterSchoolMassacre''
132* ''Film/AliceInMurderland''
133* ''Film/AliceSweetAlice''
134* ''Film/AllTheBoysLoveMandyLane''
135* ''[[Film/AloneInTheDark1982 Alone in the Dark]]''
136* ''Film/AmericanMary''
137* ''Film/AmericanNightmare1983''
138* ''Film/AmericanNightmare2002''
139* ''Film/AmericanPsycho2AllAmericanGirl''
140* ''Film/AmericanScarecrow''
141* ''Film/{{Amsterdamned}}''
142* ''Film/{{Amusement}}''
143* ''Film/{{Anatomy}}''
144* ''Film/AndThenThereWereNone'' (the UrExample)
145* ''Film/{{Angst}}''
146* ''Film/TheAnthropophagusBeast''
147* ''Film/AprilFoolsDay''
148* ''Film/{{Aquaslash}}''
149* Film/ArtTheClown:
150** The "Terrifier" segment of ''Film/AllHallowsEve''
151** ''Film/{{Terrifier}}'', a feature-length adaptation of the above.
152** ''Film/Terrifier2''
153* ''Film/AxEm''
154* ''Film/{{Axeman}}''
155* ''Film/BabysitterMassacre''
156* ''Film/BadApples''
157* ''Film/BadReputation''
158* ''Film/TheBagman''
159* ''Film/TheBananaSplitsMovie''
160* ''Film/ABayOfBlood''
161* ''Film/BehindTheMaskTheRiseOfLeslieVernon''
162* ''Film/{{Bereavement}}''
163* ''Film/BillyClub2013''
164* ''Film/TheBirdWithTheCrystalPlumage''
165* ''Film/TheBlackBellyOfTheTarantula''
166* ''Film/BlackChristmas1974''
167** ''Film/BlackChristmas2006''
168** ''Film/BlackChristmas2019''
169* ''Film/TheBlackPanther''
170* ''Film/BlackRat''
171* ''Film/BloodAndBlackLace''
172* ''Film/BloodCult''
173* ''Film/BloodFreak''
174* ''Film/BloodHarvest''
175* ''Film/BloodJunkie''
176* ''Film/BloodNightTheLegendOfMaryHatchet''
177* ''Film/BloodRage''
178* ''Film/BloodReaper''
179* ''Film/BloodSlaughterMassacre''
180* ''Film/BloodSuckingPharaohsInPittsburgh''
181* ''Film/BloodWasEverywhere''
182* ''Film/BloodWidow''
183* ''Film/BloodyBirthday''
184* ''Film/BloodyBloodyBibleCamp''
185* ''Film/BloodyHomecoming''
186* ''Film/BloodyMurderDuology''
187** ''Film/BloodyMurder1''
188** ''Film/BloodyMurder2ClosingCamp''
189* ''Film/BloodyMoon''
190* ''Film/BloodyPitOfHorror''
191* ''Film/BloodyReunion''
192* ''Film/BloodySummerCamp''
193* ''Film/BodiesBodiesBodies''
194* "The Gas Station" segment of ''Film/BodyBags1993''
195* ''Film/TheBoneCollector''
196* ''Film/TheBoogeyman1980''
197* ''Film/{{Borderland}}''
198* ''Film/{{Botched}}''
199* ''Film/Bruiser2000''
200* ''Film/TheBurning''
201* ''Film/ButcherBakerNightmareMaker''
202* ''Film/TheButchers''
203* "The Hook" segment of ''[[Film/CampfireTales1991 Campfire Tales]]'' (1991)
204* ''Film/{{Candyman}}''
205** ''Film/CandymanFarewellToTheFlesh''
206** ''Film/CandymanDayOfTheDead''
207** ''Film/Candyman2021''
208* ''Film/CarnageRoad''
209* ''Film/CarousHell''
210* ''Film/{{Carved}}''
211* ''Film/{{Carver}}''
212* ''Film/TheCatcher''
213* ''Film/TheCavern''
214* ''Film/CemeteryOfTerror''
215* ''Film/ChainLetter2010''
216* ''Film/{{Chained}}''
217* ''Film/CheerleaderCamp''
218* ''Film/CherryFalls''
219* ''Franchise/ChildsPlay'' [[note]]''Film/ChildsPlay2019'' reimagined itself out of the genre into a RoboticPsychopath movie.[[/note]]
220** ''Film/ChildsPlay1988''
221** ''Film/ChildsPlay2''
222** ''Film/ChildsPlay3''
223** ''Film/BrideOfChucky''
224** ''Film/SeedOfChucky''
225** ''Film/CurseOfChucky''
226** ''Film/CultOfChucky''
227* ''Film/ChristmasBlood''
228* ''Film/ChristmasBloodyChristmas''
229* ''Film/ChristmasEvil''
230* ''Film/CityInPanic''
231* ''Film/ClassReunionMassacre''
232* ''Film/{{Clownhouse}}''
233* ''Film/ClownKill''
234* ''Film/ClubDread''
235* ''Film/ColdPrey''
236* ''Film/ColonelKillMotherfuckers''
237* ''Film/ColorMeBloodRed''
238* ''Film/TheConference''
239* ''Film/{{Cornered}}''
240* ''Film/TheCottage''
241* ''Film/{{Crawlspace}}''
242* ''[[Film/{{Creep 2004}} Creep]]''
243* ''Film/CriminallyInsane''
244* ''Film/TheCurseOfElCharro''
245* ''Film/CurseOfPirateDeath''
246* ''Film/{{Curtains}}''
247* ''Film/CutAndRun''
248* ''Film/CutthroatAlley''
249* ''Film/DTox''
250* ''Film/TheDarkHalf''
251* ''Film/DarkHarvest''
252* ''Film/DarkNightOfTheScarecrow''
253* ''Film/DarkRide''
254* ''Film/ADayOfJudgment''
255* ''Film/TheDeadComeHome''
256* ''Film/TheDeadPit''
257* ''Film/DeadlyBlessing''
258* ''Film/{{Deadly Games|1982}}''
259* ''Film/DeathAcademy''
260* ''Film/DeathBell''
261* ''Film/DeathFactory''
262* ''Film/DeathOnDemand''
263* ''Film/DeathScreams''
264* ''Film/DeathStopHolocaust''
265* ''Film/DeathWalksOnHighHeels''
266* ''Film/DeepRed''
267* ''Film/DemonsNeverDie''
268* ''Film/TheDen''
269* ''Film/{{Deranged}}''
270* ''Film/Deranged2012''
271* ''Film/{{Desecrated}}''
272* ''Film/Destroyer1988''
273* ''Film/{{Detention}}''
274* ''Film/DevonsGhostLegendOfTheBloodyBoy''
275* ''Film/DialCodeSantaClaus''
276* ''Film/DontGoInTheWoods1981''
277* ''Film/DontLook''
278* ''Film/DontOpenTillChristmas''
279* ''Film/TheDormThatDrippedBlood''
280* ''Film/DrGiggles''
281* ''Film/DreamHome''
282* ''Film/DressedToKill''
283* ''Film/TheDrillerKiller''
284* ''Film/DriveInMassacre''
285* ''Film/DriveThru''
286* ''Film/TheDrowningGhost''
287* ''Film/DudeBroPartyMassacre3''
288* ''Film/DyingBreed''
289* ''Film/EasterBunnyKillKill''
290* ''Film/EatenAlive''
291* ''Film/EbolaSyndrome''
292* ''Film/EdenLake''
293* ''Film/{{Effects|1979}}''
294* ''Film/TheElf''
295* ''Film/{{Evidence}}''
296* ''Film/EvilBreedTheLegendOfSamhain''
297* ''Film/EvilDeadTrap''
298* ''Film/EvilEd''
299* ''Film/EvilLaugh''
300* ''Film/{{Expose}}''
301* ''Film/EyesOfAStranger''
302* ''Film/{{Faceless}}''
303* ''Film/TheFarm''
304* ''Film/FatalGames''
305* ''Film/FearIsland''
306* ''Film/FearStreet''
307* ''Film/FenderBender''
308* ''Film/FinalExam''
309* ''Film/TheFinalTerror''
310* ''Film/TheFleshAndBloodShow''
311* ''Film/TheForest1982''
312* ''Film/FraternityMassacreAtHellIsland''
313* ''Film/{{Freaky}}''
314* ''Film/FreddyVsJason''
315* ''Franchise/FridayThe13th''
316** ''Film/FridayThe13th1980''
317** ''Film/FridayThe13thPart2''
318** ''Film/FridayThe13thPartIII''
319** ''Film/FridayThe13thTheFinalChapter''
320** ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVANewBeginning''
321** ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVIJasonLives''
322** ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVIITheNewBlood''
323** ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVIIIJasonTakesManhattan''
324** ''Film/JasonGoesToHellTheFinalFriday''
325** ''Film/JasonX''
326** ''Film/FridayThe13th2009''
327** ''WebVideo/FridayThe13thVengeance''
328* ''Film/Frightmare1974''
329* ''Film/Frightmare1983''
330* ''Film/FuneralHome''
331* ''Film/TheFunhouse''
332* ''Film/TheFunhouseMassacre''
333* ''Film/FunnyMan''
334* ''Film/TheGhostDance''
335* ''Film/{{Ghostkeeper}}''
336* ''Film/TheGingerdeadMan''
337* ''Film/GirlHouse''
338* ''Film/TheGoreGoreGirls''
339* ''Film/GraduationDay''
340* ''Film/TheGreasyStrangler''
341* ''Film/GutPile''
342* ''Film/{{Gutterballs}}''
343* ''Film/HackOLantern''
344* ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}''
345** ''[[Film/{{Halloween 1978}} Halloween]]'' (1978)
346** ''[[Film/HalloweenII1981 Halloween II]]''
347** ''Film/Halloween4TheReturnOfMichaelMyers''
348** ''Film/Halloween5TheRevengeOfMichaelMyers''
349** ''Film/HalloweenTheCurseOfMichaelMyers''
350** ''Film/HalloweenH20TwentyYearsLater''
351** ''Film/HalloweenResurrection''
352** ''[[Film/{{Halloween 2007}} Halloween]]'' (2007)
353** ''[[Film/HalloweenII2009 Halloween II]]''
354** ''[[Film/Halloween2018 Halloween]]'' (2018)
355** ''Film/HalloweenKills'' (2021)
356** ''Film/HalloweenEnds''
357* ''Film/HalloweenNight''
358* ''Film/TheHand''
359* ''Film/HandsOfTheRipper''
360* ''Film/HappyBirthdayToMe''
361* ''Film/HappyDeathDay''
362* ''Film/HappyHellNight''
363* ''Film/{{Hatchet}}''
364* ''Film/{{Haunt}}''
365* ''Film/HauntedWeen''
366* ''Film/{{Hayride}}''
367** ''Film/Hayride2''
368* ''Film/TheHazing''
369* ''Film/{{Hazmat}}''
370* ''Film/{{Headless}}''
371* ''Film/HeadlessHorseman''
372* ''Film/HeKnowsYoureAlone''
373* ''Film/HellFest''
374* ''Film/HellNight''
375* ''Film/HellsHighway''
376* ''Film/HenryPortraitOfASerialKiller''
377* ''Film/HesOutThere''
378* ''Film/HighTension''
379* ''Film/TheHitcher''
380* ''Film/TheHillsRunRed''
381* ''Film/HoldYourBreath''
382* ''Film/HollowMan''
383* ''Film/HomeSweetHome''
384* ''Film/TheHorrorShow''
385* ''Film/HospitalMassacre''
386* ''[[Film/HouseOfWax2005 House of Wax]]''
387* ''Film/TheHouseOnSororityRow''
388** ''Film/SororityRow''
389* ''Film/TheHouseThatJackBuilt''
390* ''Film/{{Humongous}}''
391* ''Film/{{Hush}}''
392* ''Film/IDrinkYourBlood''
393* ''Film/ISawTheDevil''
394* ''Film/IceCreamMan''
395* ''Film/{{Identity}}''
396* ''Film/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer''
397** ''Film/IStillKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer''
398** ''Film/IllAlwaysKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer''
399* ''Film/IllKillYouIllBuryYouIllSpitOnYourGraveToo''
400* ''Film/TheInitiation''
401* ''Film/{{Inside|2007}}''
402* ''Film/IntensiveCare''
403* ''Film/{{Intruder}}''
404* ''Film/TheInvisibleManiac''
405* ''Film/TheIsland1980'' (not a pure example, but shares many tropes with slasher films)
406* ''Film/IslandOfDeath''
407* ''[[Film/ItsAWonderfulKnife2023 It's a Wonderful Knife]]''
408* ''[[Film/ItsMyPartyAndIllDieIfIWantTo It's My Party and I'll Die If I Want To]]''
409* ''[[Film/JackFrost1997 Jack Frost]]''
410* ''Film/JackO''
411* ''Film/JackTheReaper''
412* ''Film/JollyRogerMassacreAtCuttersCove''
413* ''Film/JoyRide2DeadAhead''
414** ''Film/JoyRide3Roadkill''
415* ''Film/JuliasEyes''
416* ''Film/JustBeforeDawn''
417* ''Film/KillerNerd''
418* ''Film/KillerNun''
419* ''Film/KillerParty''
420* ''Film/KillerWaves''
421* ''Film/KillerWorkout''
422* ''Film/KnifeAndHeart''
423* ''Film/KnifeForTheLadies''
424* ''Film/LaidToRest''
425* ''Film/LasVegasBloodbath''
426* ''Film/TheLastSlumberParty''
427* ''TheLeopardMan''
428* ''Film/TheLeopardMan''
429* ''Film/{{Lighthouse}}''
430* ''Film/LizzieBordensRevenge''
431* ''Film/LongPigs''
432* ''Film/LoversLane''
433[[/folder]]
434
435[[folder:M - Z]]
436* ''Film/{{Ma}}''
437* ''Film/{{Macabre}}''
438* ''Film/Madhouse1974''
439* ''Film/Madhouse2004''
440* ''Film/{{Madman}}''
441* ''Film/Maniac1980''
442* ''Film/ManiacCop''
443** ''Film/ManiacCop2''
444** ''Film/ManiacCop3BadgeOfSilence''
445* ''Film/TheMeanOne''
446* ''Film/TheMidnightMeatTrain''
447* ''Film/MidnightMovie''
448* ''Film/{{Mikey}}''
449* ''Film/{{Mindhunters}}''
450* ''Film/MonsterParty''
451* ''Film/Mortuary1983''
452* ''Film/MostLikelyToDie''
453* ''Film/MotorHomeMassacre''
454* ''Film/TheMutilator''
455* ''Film/MyBloodyValentine'' (1981)
456** ''Film/MyBloodyValentine3D'' (2009)
457* ''Film/MyLittleEye''
458* ''Film/MySoulToTake''
459* ''Film/MySuperPsychoSweet16''
460* ''Film/TheNailGunMassacre''
461* ''Film/NationalLampoonsClassReunion'' - a parody
462* ''Film/NeonManiacs''
463* ''Film/NewYearsEvil''
464* ''Film/TheNewYorkRipper''
465* ''Film/TheNightOfAThousandCats''
466* ''Film/NightOfTheDribbler''
467* ''Film/NightOfTheScarecrow''
468* ''Film/NightOfTheTemplar''
469* ''Film/ANightToDismember''
470* ''Film/{{Nightbreed}}''
471* ''Film/{{Nightmare}}''
472* ''Film/NightmareBeach''
473* ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet''
474** ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984''
475** ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreetPart2FreddysRevenge''
476** ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors''
477** ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet4TheDreamMaster''
478** ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet5TheDreamChild''
479** ''Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare''
480** ''Film/WesCravensNewNightmare''
481** ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet2010''
482* ''Film/NightSchool1981''
483* ''Film/NineGuestsForACrime''
484* ''Film/NineLives2002''
485* ''Film/NutcrackerMassacre''
486* ''Film/Opera1987''
487* ''Film/OtherHalves''
488* ''Film/TheOuting''
489* ''Film/PeepingTom''
490* ''Anime/PerfectBlue''
491* ''Film/PhantomOfTheMallEricsRevenge''
492* ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1998''
493* ''Film/{{Pieces}}''
494* ''Film/{{Pitchfork}}''
495* ''Film/ThePool''
496* ''Film/{{Popcorn}}''
497* ''Film/PresidentsDay''
498* ''Film/{{Prevenge}}''
499* ''Film/ThePrey''
500* ''Film/PromNight1980''
501** ''Film/HelloMaryLouPromNightII''
502** ''Film/PromNightIIITheLastKiss''
503** ''Film/PromNightIVDeliverUsFromEvil''
504** ''Film/PromNight2008''
505* ''Film/TheProwler''
506* ''Film/{{Psycho}}''
507** ''Film/PsychoII''
508** ''Film/PsychoIII''
509** ''Film/PsychoIVTheBeginning''
510** ''Film/Psycho1998''
511* ''Film/PsychoCop''
512** ''Film/PsychoCopReturns''
513* ''Film/ThePumpkinKarver''
514* ''Film/{{Pumpkins}}''
515* ''Film/{{Rabies}}''
516* ''Film/TheRanger''
517* ''Film/RedMist''
518* ''Film/TheRedwoodMassacre''
519* ''Film/TheRental''
520* ''Film/TheRetreat2021''
521* ''Film/ReturnToHorrorHigh''
522* ''Film/TheRipper''
523* ''Film/RipperLetterFromHell''
524* ''Film/{{Rituals}}''
525* ''Film/{{Robowar}}''
526* ''Film/RomasantaTheWerewolfHunt''
527* ''Film/{{Rovdyr}}''
528* ''Film/TheRow''
529* ''Film/{{Salvage}}''
530* ''Film/SantasSlay''
531* ''Film/SatansLittleHelper''
532* ''Film/{{Savaged}}''
533* ''Film/SawneyFleshOfMan''
534* ''Film/{{Scalps}}''
535* ''Film/ScareCampaign''
536* ''Film/Scarecrow2002''
537** ''Film/ScarecrowSlayer''
538* ''Film/{{Scarred}}''
539* ''Film/{{Schizo}}''
540* ''Film/Scream1981''
541* ''Film/{{Scream}}''
542** ''Film/Scream1996''
543** ''Film/Scream2''
544** ''Film/Scream3''
545** ''Film/Scream4''
546** ''Film/Scream2022''
547** ''Film/ScreamVI''
548* ''Film/ScreamBloodyMurder''
549* ''Film/ScreamPark''
550* ''Film/{{Seance}}''
551* ''Film/SeeNoEvil''
552** ''Film/SeeNoEvil2''
553* ''Film/Severance2006''
554* ''Film/{{Shrooms}}''
555* ''Film/{{Sick}}''
556* ''Film/SilentNightBloodyNight''
557* ''Film/SilentNightDeadlyNight''
558** ''Film/SilentNightDeadlyNightPart2''
559** ''Film/SilentNightDeadlyNightIIIBetterWatchOut''
560** ''Film/SilentNight2012''
561* ''Film/SilentRage''
562* ''Film/Sissy2022''
563* ''Film/Slash2002''
564* ''Film/{{Slashers}}''
565* ''Film/SlaughterHigh''
566* ''Film/{{Slaxx}}''
567* ''Film/Sledgehammer1983''
568* ''Film/SleepawayCamp''
569** ''Film/SleepawayCampIIUnhappyCampers''
570** ''Film/SleepawayCampIIITeenageWasteland''
571** ''Film/SleepawayCampIVTheSurvivor''
572** ''Film/ReturnToSleepawayCamp''
573* ''Film/TheSleeper''
574* ''Film/SleepyHollowHigh''
575* ''Film/TheSlumberPartyMassacre''
576** ''Film/SlumberPartyMassacreII''
577** ''Film/SlumberPartyMassacreIII''
578* ''Film/{{Smiley}}''
579* ''Film/SororityHouseMassacre''
580* ''Film/SoSweetSoDead''
581* ''Film/StageFrightAquarius''
582* ''Film/TheStepfather''
583** ''Film/TheStepfather2009''
584* ''Film/StepsTroddenBlack''
585* ''Film/Stitches2012''
586* ''Film/StormWarning''
587* ''Film/StrangeBehavior''
588* ''Film/{{Superstition}}''
589* ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet''
590* ''Film/SweetSixteen''
591* The "Sweet Tooth", "Trick" and "Friday the 31st" segments of ''Film/TalesOfHalloween''
592* ''Film/{{Tamara}}''
593* ''Film/{{Targets}}''
594* ''Film/{{Tenebre}}''
595* ''Film/TerrorFirmer''
596* ''Film/TerrorTrain''
597* ''Franchise/TheTexasChainsawMassacre''
598** ''Film/TheTexasChainSawMassacre1974''
599** ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre2''
600** ''Film/LeatherfaceTheTexasChainsawMassacreIII''
601** ''Film/TexasChainsawMassacreTheNextGeneration''
602** ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre2003''
603** ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacreTheBeginning''
604** ''Film/TexasChainsaw3D''
605** ''Film/{{Leatherface}}''
606** ''Film/TexasChainsawMassacre2022''
607* ''Film/Thanksgiving2023''
608* ''Film/{{Thankskilling}}''
609* ''Film/TheresSomeoneInsideYourHouse''
610* ''Film/ThereWasALittleGirl''
611* ''Film/ThirteenWomen'' (one of the earliest films to influence the genre)
612* ''Film/Thriller2018''
613* ''Film/TimberFalls''
614* ''Film/TooBeautifulToDie''
615* ''Film/TheToolboxMurders''
616* ''Film/TooManyCooks''
617* ''Film/TheToothFairy2006''
618* ''Film/Tormented2009''
619* ''Film/{{Torso}}''
620* ''Film/TotallyKiller''
621* ''Film/TouristTrap''
622* ''Film/TheTownThatDreadedSundown''
623* ''Film/TragedyGirls''
624* ''Film/TrickOrTreats''
625* ''Film/TheTripper''
626* ''Film/TruthOrDareACriticalMadness''
627* ''Film/{{Turistas}}''
628* ''Film/TuckerAndDaleVsEvil''
629* ''Film/UncleSam''
630* ''Film/TheUndertaker1988''
631* ''Film/Unhinged1982''
632* ''Film/UnmaskedPart25''
633* ''Film/TheUntoldStory''
634* ''Film/UrbanLegend''
635** ''Film/UrbanLegendsFinalCut''
636** ''Film/UrbanLegendsBloodyMary''
637* ''Film/{{Valentine}}''
638* ''Film/VarsityBlood''
639* ''[[Film/Venom2005 Venom]]'' (2005)
640* ''Film/ViolentShit''
641* ''Film/VisitingHours''
642* ''Film/{{Vlog}}''
643* ''Film/WatchMeWhenIKill''
644* ''Film/{{Welp}}''
645* ''Film/WhenAKillerCalls''
646* ''Film/TheWindmillMassacre''
647* ''Film/WinnieThePoohBloodAndHoney''
648* ''Film/{{Wishcraft}}''
649* ''[[Film/WithoutWarning1980 Without Warning]]''
650* ''Film/{{Wrestlemaniac}}''
651* ''Film/WrongTurn''
652** ''Film/WrongTurn2DeadEnd''
653** ''Film/WrongTurn3LeftForDead''
654** ''Film/WrongTurn4BloodyBeginnings''
655** ''Film/WrongTurn5Bloodlines''
656** ''Film/WrongTurn6LastResort''
657** ''Film/WrongTurn2021''
658* ''X'' film series:
659** ''Film/{{Pearl|2022}}''
660** ''Film/{{X|2022}}''
661* ''Film/YouMightBeTheKiller''
662* ''Film/YoureNext''
663[[/index]]
664[[/folder]]
665
666!! Homages, Parodies, Other Stuff Regarding the Genre:
667[[folder:Advertising]]
668* There was a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17B54nHCs7I Nike commercial]] where a woman outran the chainsaw-toting psycho during a chase scene. Some of the viewers clung on to the fact that it had a half-naked woman running around and it eventually got banned.
669* Another commercial had a couple pick up an ObviouslyEvil man because, along with a giant axe, he had a case of beer with him. The guy at the wheel's sure he has a good reason for the axe, and lets the hitchhiker in when he says [[BlatantLies it's a bottle opener.]] Then, further down the road, they see another guy with a mask, a chainsaw, and another case of beer.
670-->'''Driver:''' Look! He has Bud Light.
671-->'''First Psycho:''' ''And a chainsaw!''
672* Yet [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xzij-cMFqs another ad]] had a masked and machete-totting maniac barge in on a cabin full of partying teenagers, who are unable to emit anything louder than forced whispers because they've been saving their screams for the Much Music Video Awards.
673* A Geico ad mocked the stupid decisions made in these films, with the teens opting to hide behind a row of hanging hooks and saws instead of getting into a running car, much to the killer's bewilderment.
674-->'''Teen:''' (while being chased by the killer) Head for the cemetery!
675* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-y740MuzdA An ad made by Latin American channel Space]] had an attractive blonde TalkingTheMonsterToDeath with a thinly disguised Leatherface, trying to analyze him through things such as FreudianExcuse. As the camera cuts to the slogan "Not Everything Is Solved By Talking", a chainsaw revving and screams are heard.
676[[/folder]]
677
678[[folder:Anime And Manga]]
679* ''Manga/BloodyMaidenJuusankiNoShima'' is a Slasher Movie in manga form, involving thirteen young women slated to be "sacrificed."
680* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'': The series is known for its gorn and oftentimes, the murders are committed by people seeking revenge against presumed wrongs.
681* ''Kichikujima''- Based around Texas Chainsaw Massacre and other movies. Kaoru is based on Leatherface but with powers.
682* ''Manga/PumpkinNight'': The manga follows the structure and plot of one, where a strange killer terrorizes a group of high school students. It does, however, have a very sympathetic killer, and makes various references to horror movies of the genre, like having an opening chapter mimicking ''Film/{{Scream}}''.
683* Several of Kindaichi's casefiles in... ''Manga/TheKindaichiCasefiles''
684* A [[HairRaisingHare rabbit]]-masked killer locks a group of young people in an abandoned asylum and begins picking them off as they try to find a way out and discern who among them is the murderer in ''Manga/{{Doubt}}''.
685* ''Manga/FinalGirl2019'' is an AffectionateParody of the genre, following the story of an ordinary salaryman suddenly waking up not just in the plot of a stock slasher film, but as [[DesignatedVictim the sexy cheerleader that is almost assuredly going to die first]], forcing him to [[GenreSavvy identify the genre tropes]] and defy them to survive.
686[[/folder]]
687
688[[folder:Comics]]
689* ''ComicBook/HackSlash'' stars a former FinalGirl who hunts down slashers. Essentially, every distinct story arc is its own 'movie' -- Cassie even refers to the return of Father Wrath ([[spoiler:actually a copycat]]) as a "sequel".
690* The genre is played with in Andrea Mouse-themed storylines from ''ComicBook/BobTheDog''. Given the comic's [[SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror style]], it teeters between straight example and AffectionateParody.
691* The Shadowline[=/=]Creator/ImageComics miniseries ''Gutwrencher'', explicitly stated to be inspired by classics like ''Prom Night'' and ''Slaughter High''.
692* Frank deals with a demented cannibal hillbilly clan straight out of ''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' et al. in ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'' story ''Welcome to the Bayou''.
693* ''Chaos Campus: Sorority Girls vs. Zombies'' is a horror GenreMashup with two slashers named Kurtis Kasey the Body Snatcher and Mikhail the Meat Man.
694* A desperate producer tries to resuscitate his floundering career with a slasher film called ''"President's Day"'' (it's about someone who switches between President masks while rampaging through a car lot on President's Day weekend) in ''The Auteur''. Things go a bit awry when he bribes a jury to acquit a serial killer so that he can hire the psycho to be his "murder consultant."
695* The one-shot ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' villain Gorehound went on slasher-inspired killing sprees, though in her crazed personal narrative Batman was "the monster" while she was the FinalGirl. Her MO in conjunction with her slightly Gothic appearance made her come off as some kind of evil version of Cassie Hack from the aforementioned ''Hack/Slash''.
696* Even ComicBook/ChickTracts did this, with the anti-Halloween tract ''Boo!''
697* The Creator/HillHouseComics book ''ComicBook/BasketfulOfHeads'' is something of a spin on the slasher story. It has a similar tone and story, with a young woman as a main character, a storm and killings committed with a big Viking axe, but with the twist that the main character is the one running around with the axe, killing people who are targeting her in self-defense.
698[[/folder]]
699
700[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
701* ''Film/TheBoy2015'' is a psychological character study that plays with the "killer kid" variation of the genre, actually showing the budding twistedness of the titular boy. While we see him gradually become more fascinated with violence over the course of the film, [[spoiler: only one person is actually shown dying by his hand on-screen, and it's in a flashback filling in the blanks from an earlier point, revealing what he did.]] Upon this reveal, [[spoiler: he creates a crown for himself, signifying his birth into a killer, and proceeds to kill all his victims at once in the last few minutes of the movie by setting his hotel on fire, bringing the body count from one to at least a dozen in a flash.]]
702* ''Film/CabinByTheLake'' centers around a serial killer who performs his murders to write a more "sophisticated" horror movie script than the usual slasher fare he puts out.
703* ''Camp Cuddly Pines Powertool Massacre'', a porno-slasher notable for sharing its set with ''Film/{{Hatchet}}''. Amusingly, the villain's origin is mish-mash of Freddy, Michael and Jason's respective backstories.
704* ''Film/ChristmasEvil'' is often mistaken to be one, but it really is more of a character study/psychological horror than a full-blown slasher. Nonetheless, many horror fans still refer to it as one.
705* ''Film/CryWolf'' is worthy of mention here for being a "faux-slasher". [[spoiler:Only two people die]]. And [[spoiler:neither of them really dies in a particularly brutal fashion]] as has become accustomed to the genre.
706* ''Film/TheElf'': The movie has a lot of the genre's trappings. While the killer may not be a StockSlasher like most movies have, the killer elf doll certainly acts like one, utilizing OffscreenTeleportation to move about the house, ambushing the occupants and killing them one by one.
707* In ''Film/FearInc'', the eponymous company stages many of its simulated (or are they real?) murders in the style of slasher movies. So much so that GenreSavvy protagonist Joe is identifying specific films as he comes upon the 'corpses' (''Franchise/FridayThe13th'', ''Film/{{Scream}}'', ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'', etc.).
708* ''Film/TheFinalGirls'' is a fourth wall bending DeconstructiveParody of the genre crossed with drama about a girl's attempt to overcome the grief of her famous actress mother's passing while she and her friends are [[TrappedInTVLand trapped in the film that made her mother famous]].
709* ''Film/FishAndCat'' is an Iranian film that has the template of a slasher film, but does not feature any on-screen violence or death; its scares instead come from the implications brought on by what the killers say, do, and how they interact with the other characters. Director Shahram Mokri states that he intended to make a film about why the bad guys do what they do, rather than how.
710* ''Film/{{Freaky}}'' combines the genre with a [[FreakyFridayFlip body swap]] between the standard FinalGirl and the serial killer. It's a race against the clock for the former to switch back while also tackling her insecurities.
711* ''Film/HollywoodChainsawHookers'' is a ridiculous parody of slashers about ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
712* ''Film/HotFuzz'', the second of the ''Film/ThreeFlavoursCornettoTrilogy''. It may be classified as an action-comedy, but the film features a cloaked serial killer murdering people using over-the-top gory methods. Add in that one of the characters literally name drop the term "slasher" at one point, and it's clear that part of the movie parodies slasher films, much like the other two films in the trilogy (''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'' and ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'') parody other genres of horror.
713* ''Film/{{Pitchfork}}'' is about a killer with a really rusty pitchfork in place of one of his hands killing people on a farm during a party.
714* The comedy film ''Film/PsychoBeachParty'' is an homage to old slasher movies, and beach movies from the 1960s.
715* ''Film/ScaryMovie'' parodies the genre, mostly ''Scream'' and ''I Know What You Did Last Summer''. Its sequels venture into other genres.
716* ''Film/ShriekIfYouKnowWhatIDidLastFridayTheThirteenth'', which also heavily parodied ''Scream'' and ''I Know What You Did Last Summer''.
717* ''Film/StageFright2014'' is an AffectionateParody of slashers that's also a musical.
718* ''Film/StanHelsing'' features {{Captain Ersatz}}es of various horror icons, including ones from slasher movies.
719* ''Film/StudentBodies'' and ''Wacko'' predate ''Scream'' and ''Scary Movie'' by more than a decade.
720* ''Film/TragedyGirls'' is a PerspectiveFlip of the slasher movie, as our protagonists are two teenage {{Serial Killer}}s who pick off members of their community for fame.
721* ''Film/TuckerAndDaleVsEvil'' parodies the 'degenerate hillbilly' variation on this genre by flipping it; the two main characters are a pair of sweet-natured but not very bright hillbillies who, through a [[ContrivedCoincidence bunch of misunderstandings]], are mistaken for psycho killers by a group of college students camping in the woods. [[HilarityEnsues Very Gory Hilarity Ensues]].
722* ''Film/UnmaskedPart25'' is an existential British satire of the ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' series, in which a deformed slasher named Jackson tries to leave his life of meaningless slaughter for his love of a beautiful blind woman. It's somewhat reminiscent of ''Film/TheToxicAvenger.''
723* ''Film/YouMightBeTheKiller'' has the dorky protagonist living out a classic summer-camp slasher, the one where camp counselors are brutally murdered by a masked man. To make sense of his situation, he rings up his horror GenreSavvy friend and through her insight, they discover ''he's'' the masked man all along. The story is told in unchronological order as he tries to remember what happened prior to calling his friend.
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726[[folder:Literature]]
727* Agatha Christie's 1939 masterpiece ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone'' is essentially a slasher written decades before the genre was established.
728* Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/TheDarkHalf'', which was adapted into a 1993 film directed by Creator/GeorgeARomero.
729* ''Literature/TheFinalGirlSupportGroup'' is a slasher in itself where the famous Slasher Movies of the past are real and actually happened.
730* There are some slasher novels, like ''Literature/KillRiver and its two sequels, Disco Deathtrap, Golf Curse, Slay Bells, Joyride, Deadly Detention, Literature/{{Apeshit}}'', and ''Under the Blade''.
731* ''Where The Bodies Are Buried'' and sequels by Creator/KimNewman are about a series of slasher movies of the same name, whose slasher, Rob Hackwill, has a nasty habit of [[RefugeeFromTVLand becoming real]].
732* A group of phobophages (shapeshifters who feed on fear) attack a convention while disguised as horror film characters (including slasher villains like "[[CarryABigStick Hammerhands]]" and "[[SinisterScythe The Reaper]]") in the ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' novel ''Literature/ProvenGuilty''.
733* ''Literature/MyHeartIsAChainsaw'' and the other books in Stephen Graham Jones' ''Indian Lake Trilogy'' feature a host of slashers who make their way through a small mountain town in Idaho.
734* Played with in the satirical comedy horror ''Larry'' by Adam Millard, which sees a slasher in a pig mask return to his old campsite stomping ground for a fresh round of slaughter after a long time off. Problem is, he's in his 60's now and just not as spry as he used to be...
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737[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
738* Attempts at bringing the genre to television include ''Series/HarpersIsland'', ''Series/ScreamTheTVSeries'', ''Series/{{Scream Queens|2015}}'', ''Series/{{Slasher}}'', and ''Series/DeadOfSummer''.
739* The ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'' episode "[[Recap/BoyMeetsWorldS5E17AndThenThereWasShawn And Then There Was Shawn]]" parodied slasher movies. It involved the main characters getting killed off one by one by a masked killer while trapped in [[DetentionEpisode detention]] after school (it was AllJustADream, of course). The episode came out during the revitalization of the genre in the late 1990s and even guest-starred Creator/JenniferLoveHewitt, who had recently starred in ''Film/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer''.
740* The ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' episode "Chick Flick" had a MonsterOfTheWeek who could travel in and out of films; he brought a pair of slasher villains, Bloody Mary and Axe Husband, to life to help him kill the Charmed Ones. And in a later episode, Phoebe starts having slasher film-based nightmares in which she is chased around the manor by a lunatic with a HockeyMaskAndChainsaw.
741* ''Series/CriminalMinds'' can often feel like one, especially with episodes where the actual stalking and murder scenes are shown. A couple examples:
742** The beginning of Season 2's "North Mammon" where three teenage girls are stalked and subdued by a masked man.
743** Season 5's "Exit Wounds" where the [=BAU=] are stranded on an island in Alaska while hunting for a serial killer wearing an ''[[Film/UrbanLegend Urban Legend]]''-esque [[InTheHood hooded]] parka. The [[TheTeaser cold open]] has the killer stalk and stab a woman with an arrow.
744** Season 6's "The Stranger" begins with a woman being murdered by a serial killer with a hunting knife. That in itself is not slasher-like, but the killer toying with his victim by turning on her stereo and then attempting to swipe at her while she blocks the door are very much like something out of ''Film/{{Scream}}''. What seals the deal is prior to the murder, the [=BAU=] were discussing the aforementioned movie.
745** Season 8's "#6" is more like a ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' film, but there is a scene where the masked unsub uses a remote control to activate a victim's car stereo, then pops up from the backseat behind her.
746** Season 9's "Blood Relations" features a deformed woodsman with superhuman strength using barbed wire to kill people. The episode even ends like a slasher movie with a CliffHanger where the killer escapes and ends up in a couple's home.
747** Season 10's "Hashtag" deals with a serial killer that bases their murders around an [[Main/{{Creepypasta}} internet urban legend]] dubbed "The Mirror Man".
748** Season 14's "Sick and Evil" features a masked PsychoKnifeNut targeting people living in supposedly haunted houses.
749* The ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' episode "Eat Me" is an OutOfGenreExperience into horror that starts off with ZombieApocalypse tropes, but becomes a Slasher Movie once its primary bad guy appears.
750* The opening of ''Series/TheKingOfQueens'' episode "Prints Charming" had Doug and Carrie watch ''Slaughter Beach'', a slasher flick which had a boy be cut in half by a surfboard by a killer with the catchphrase, "Surfs up!"
751* In ''Series/{{Monk}}'', the victim of "[[Recap/MonkS2E12MrMonkAndTheTVStar Mr. Monk and the T.V. Star]]" was an actress whose only credit was an in-universe slasher flick called "Frat Party Massacre".
752* Jessica Fletcher is dismayed to learn that the film adaptation of one of her novels, ''The Corpse Danced at Midnight'', is a gory, T&A-filled slasher film that has next to nothing to do with the original story in the ''Series/MurderSheWrote'' episode "[[Recap/MurderSheWroteS1E3HoorayForHomicide Hooray For Homicide]]."
753* The ''Series/TruCalling'' episode "[[HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday Valentine]]".
754--> '''Harrison:''' Can you believe we're in a motel with a cemetery next door, and a freaking psycho on the loose? Can it get anymore ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'', huh?
755--> '''Tru:''' That was a summer camp.
756* ''Series/TheSopranos'' has ''JustForFun/{{Cleaver}}'', Christopher Moltisanti's FilmWithinAFilm.
757* ''Series/WeirdScience'': "Bikini Camp Slasher" opens with the main trio watching the latest installment of the in-universe series (where a catcher mit-masked killer stalks victims at a summer camp). Even though he's never seen it before, Gary predicts every development, due to his knowledge of slasher tropes and rules. When he remarks he'd like to match wits with a slasher and see who'd come out on top, Lisa zaps them into the movie. They can only leave once the movie is over, so to survive, they'll have to fend off Mittface, abide by the various rules that Gary knows by heart, and (much to Gary and Wyatt's disappointment) avoid two scantily clad, willing women.
758-->'''Wyatt:''' This is your idea of fun?! Being stalked by a homicidal, kill-crazy maniac?!
759* The "Dead Air" (a late-night radio show host is stalked by a psychopath) and "Rest Stop" (a carload of students is picked off one by one at the eponymous locale) segments of the horror anthology show ''Series/NightVisions''.
760* The 2021 ''Series/MurdochMysteries'' HalloweenEpisode "I Know What You Did Last Autumn" is, as the title suggests, a slasher pastiche, as a MonsterClown hunts down a group of teenagers, while Detective Murdoch tries to find out who is behind the costume and what their motives are. The following year's Halloween Episode is "I Still Know What You Did Last Autumn", which is set during the making of a movie about the Clown Killer, thereby adding some ''Film/Scream2'' style meta.
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763[[folder:Music]]
764* The music video for E-Type's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe4D3FFzX1k&feature=related Angels Crying]]" is based around slasher movie tropes.
765* The Music/WeirdAlYankovic song "Nature Trail To Hell".
766* Music/{{Aqua}}'s "Halloween".
767* Music/{{Eminem}} liked to incorporate slasher movie imagery into his songs and stage performances, especially during ''Music/TheMarshallMathersLP'' era, where he'd appear on stage with a HockeyMaskAndChainsaw. His album ''Relapse'' is essentially a whole album of Slim Shady as a MedicalHorror-themed slasher villain, binging on pills and murdering mostly young women.
768* Music/IceNineKills are horror geeks, and use horror movies as inspiration for many of their songs. The songs in The Silver Scream, in particular, are all themed around horror movies, including slasher like Franchise/FridayThe13th, Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet, and Film/{{Scream}}.
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771[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
772* ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'' has... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Slashers]], who are people influenced by the supernatural into becoming perfect {{Serial Killer}}s. They range from Rippers, who have abnormal, but still theoretically possible abilities, to Scourges, who are obviously supernatural. The types are: [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Avengers]] & [[UrbanLegend Legends]], [[ImplacableMan Brutes]] & [[TheJuggernaut Masks]], [[ManipulativeBastard Charmers]] & [[TalkativeLoon Psychos]], [[RedRightHand Freaks]] & {{Mutants}}, and [[DiabolicalMastermind Geniuses]] & [[TheChessmaster Maniacs]]. It is possible, though difficult, to play one as a Type IV or V AntiHero, targeting people, or supernatural beings, who deserve it.
773* ''TabletopGame/TheLastFriday'' is basically ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' the board game. Players take on the role of the killer or campers repairing an old, abandoned summer camp as they alternate between hunting each other down and trying to survive until the end.
774* Similarly, ''TabletopGame/MixtapeMassacre'' is premised around archetypal killers running amok in a small town in 1986.
775* Spectrum Games' flagship RPG ''Slasher Flick'' essentially has the players and GM creating and acting out their own slasher movie.
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778[[folder:Urban Legends]]
779* ''Film/Halloween1978'' was inspired by a variant of TheCallsAreComingFromInsideTheHouse.
780* The Bunnyman, a Virginian story about a mental patient in a bunny suit roaming the woods with an axe and killing travellers. Interestingly, the story originated in 1970, several years before ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre1974'', the first "true" slasher film. It probably loosely inspired the ''Bunnyman'' series of films by Carl Lindbergh.
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783[[folder:Video Games]]
784* ''VideoGame/CampSunshine''
785* ''VideoGame/ClockTower'', released in 1995, is very similar to a slasher movie, with a near-indestructible slasher villain who murders young women off-screen. It's immediate sequel, released in 1996, also follows the formula of a slasher movie sequel, with FinalGirl Jennifer returning and a host of new characters being added to the mix, as they investigate the new killer.
786* ''VideoGame/TheCrawfordFamily', is a freeware horror game where the player is a trucker kidnapped by a family of lunatics straight out of the texas chainsaw masscace.
787* ''VideoGame/ChzoMythos'' the [[FreewareGame freeware]] horror [[AdventureGame adventure games]] series by [[Creator/BenCroshaw Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]] has elements of this genre.
788* ''VideoGame/DeadByDaylight'' pits a group of player-controlled survivors against one of several unique masked (or unmasked) maniacs. Some of the game's [[DownloadableContent DLCs]] even adds characters from slasher films such as ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'', ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre'', ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' and ''Film/{{Scream}}''[[labelnote:*]]The Ghostface in the game is not one of the actual Ghostfaces from the films, but an original character wearing the costume[[/labelnote]].
789* ''VideoGame/FridayThe13thTheGame'' pits a player-controlled group of stereotypical teen camp counselors against a player-controlled Jason Voorhees.
790* ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami'' is a little more on the action movie/psychological thriller side of things, but there's something to be said about the main character being a silent, masked killer that murders droves of criminals using a variety of sharp implements.
791** The follow-up, ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami2WrongNumber'', has a ShowWithinAShow ([[CallBack based on the events of the first game]]) called "''Midnight Animal''" that is a more straight-forward example of a slasher film. Ironically, the protagonist of the first game has two representations within the film. The first is a pudgy and gruesome killer that mimics his actual actions years prior, except here he is actually insane and targets helpless teens instead of the Russian Mafia. As the protagonist himself is modeled after Ryan Gosling in his role in ''Film/Drive2011'', the second is a handsome blonde boy that looks exactly like him unmasked, but suffers from SexSignalsDeath by the killer within the film after making out with his girlfriend.
792* ''VideoGame/KillerBear'' is an RPG maker Parody of the genre.
793* ''VideoGame/KillerFrequency'' fashions itself as an interactive version of this genre, through the perspective of a radio host named Forrest Nash, who has to double as Gallows Creek's 911 operator. The long-dead killer known as the Whistling Man has seemingly reemerged on Whistling Night, picking out various targets in the small town to maim them. Nash, with his producer Peggy, has to save callers from classic horror scenarios set up by the killer, while trying to uncover the mystery of the town that triggered this occurrence.
794* ''VideoGame/LakeviewCabin'' and its sequel ''VideoGame/LakeviewCabinCollection'' are homages to these films. The basic setup of every level is a group of characters must prepare for the arrival of a slasher that must then be defeated.
795* ''VideoGame/LastYearTheNightmare'' is a game where the players control a group of stereotypes pitted against a masked murderer, also player-controlled. It shares more than a few similarities with ''VideoGame/FridayThe13thTheGame'', and legal battles between the two games have even happened.
796* The ''VideoGame/{{Manhunt}}'' games have often been compared to slasher movies, only with you playing as the killer.
797* ''VideoGame/NaughtyBear'' is explicit about its slasher influence, albeit in a much LighterAndSofter form (mostly in that [[BloodlessCarnage there's no blood and gore due to your victims being teddy bears]]).
798* ' VideoGame/{{Northburygrove}}'' featues many of these elements found in puppet combo(see below)games
799* ''VideoGame/SlayawayCamp'' is a voxel-animated sliding puzzle game with the twist that you control a serial killer hunting down and killing victims in gruesome fashions. It pays homage to many slasher films of the 1980s, especially the original ''Friday the 13th.'' The different sections of the film are all represented by an [[{{Sequelitis}} ever-increasing number of sequels]], each featuring different killers and different obstacles/traps.
800* Creator/PuppetCombo/Pig Farmer Games makes game that combine [[{{Retraux}} mid 90s PS1 graphics]] and 80s slasher aesthetics.
801** ''VideoGame/BabysitterBloodbath'' which started out as a ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' fan game
802** ''VideoGame/PowerDrillMassacre'' has a car crash survivor being chased by a masked lunatic with a power drill
803** In ''VideoGame/NightRipper'' the player is being chased by maniac in a duck mask through [[TheCityNarrows New York dirty back alleys.]]
804** In ''VideoGame/BuzzSawBloodHouse'' the player is a teen schoolgirl who's been kidnapped and forced to partipate in a deep web snuff reality show with a chainsaw wielding killer.
805** ''VideoGame/StayOutOfTheHouse'' puts the player in the role of a kinapped gas station clerk trapped in the house with a [[SackheadSlasher sack headed killer]] called TheButcher
806** Many have you playing as the killer. Including ''VideoGame/FeedMeBilly'', ''Splatter Camp'' and ''Meat Cleaver Mutilator''.
807* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7'' has a HillbillyHorrors slasher movie feel to it as the protagonist is stuck in a situation where he's constantly hunted by nearly invincible immortal rednecks. .
808** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis'' and its 2020 remake also counts, as it features a female protagonist, Jill Valentine, being violently pursued by an ImplacableMan antagonist, Nemesis, in a zombie infested city. Nemesis also attempts to kill anybody who gets in its way of eliminating Jill, including her allies.
809* ''VideoGame/UntilDawn'', in which eight young friends go to [[DontGoInTheWoods a secluded hotel in the mountains]] and get attacked by (what are implied to be) supernatural killers.[[spoiler: But this is actually an InvokedTrope - the mastermind behind the slasher attacks is actually pulling a very cruel -- if harmless -- prank on the other characters as revenge for a prank they performed in the intro. However, he isn't the BigBad and neither is the other strange man you meet. However, this soon goes OffTheRails because there actually ''is'' something up in the mountains...]]
810* The ''Videogame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole'' DLC "Bring the Crunch" is a Slasher parody that has you attempting (and mostly failing) to save camp councilors of a summer camp from dying to a mysterious threat. The DLC even introduces an unlockable FinalGirl class which invokes the [[ActionSurvivor "powers of luck and survival"]] of the trope.
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813[[folder:Visual Novels]]
814* ''VisualNovel/LovelyLittleThieves'' is essentially a tribute to the genre, and especially the genre classics from TheEighties.
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817[[folder:Webcomics]]
818* ''Webcomic/Trevor2020'' is a [[BodyHorror horror]]/[[BloodyHorror slasher]] webcomic, with a cinematic style.
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821[[folder:Web Original]]
822* ''WebVideo/TheHorriblySlowMurdererWithTheExtremelyInefficientWeapon'' takes the invulnerable killer aspect and runs with it.
823* ''WebVideo/EconomyWatch'': Parodied in Episode 30, "Stock Stabber". More specifically, the episode pokes fun at ''Film/{{Scream}}''.
824* For his 2013 Monster Madness special, Creator/JamesRolfe [[http://cinemassacre.com/2013/10/01/the-mummy-1932/ argued]] that there's a good case to be made for the various sequels to ''[[Film/TheMummy1932 The Mummy]]'' (though notably, not the original itself) being among the first slashers, noting that the series checks off most of the tropes of the genre outside of the {{Gorn}}.
825* ''WebVideo/FiveSecondFilms'': ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afKWNdSCym0 Dude Bro Party Massacre 3]]'' is a parody of this sort of film that [[GenderInvertedTrope inverts the typical genders]]. Later [[Film/DudeBroPartyMassacre3 made into a feature film]].
826* Parodied in Fluke Films's ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIQ6PdcEY9g&feature=related Slasher Film]]''. The film starts predictably, as the killer stalks [[SacrificialLamb his first victim]]... [[DamselOutOfDistress and is then promptly killed by the girl]], ending the movie in the first act. The cops arrive, and the confused detective laments that his entire character is now pointless.
827* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': Flippy's episodes are played out like one.
828* ''Website/SCPFoundation'', [[http://scp-wiki.net/scp-855 SCP-855 ("The Film Hall")]]. The Hall can enter many different genre modes, including that of a horror film. While it was in that mode a killer who was ImmuneToBullets appeared and attacked the guards.
829* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z04M6NhkIKk This parody trailer]], which depicts 2016 as a serial killer.
830* ''Creator/RoosterTeeth'': One of the scenarios suggested in ''Million Dollars, But...'', which plays scenarios detailing what people would and wouldn't do for a million dollars, is every film you watch after accepting the money stars people you know. During the scenario, Zach Anner portrays a standard serial killer. But given that he has cerebral palsey, and is confined to a wheelchair, he runs into some difficulties:
831-->'''Ghostface!Zach:''' You can't go up the stairs, that's against the rules! We all agreed to stay on the first floor to make this fair!
832* ''WebVideo/UnwantedHouseguest'': Episode Eleven of "TRUE Scary Stories" is about a group of kids trying to make their own Slasher film.
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835[[folder:Western Animation]]
836* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': The Season 9 premier episode "[[Literature/AndThenThereWereNone And Then There Were Fewer]]" features the Griffins and other various residents of Quahog being invited up to [[Creator/JamesWoods James Woods']] large mansion where people start getting murdered one by one.
837* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland'': With the show's setting, it was pretty much a given that one episode would come along and reference/parody the genre. Episode 19, titled: "[[Recap/TotalDramaHookLineAndScreamer Hook, Line and Screamer]]" begins with the contestants being shown a slasher flick (Gwen even refers to it as such) and then with no explanation whatsoever, a scared Chris and Chef speed away from the island in a boat, leaving behind a newspaper that mentions an escaped [[HockeyMaskAndChainsaw hockey mask-wearing psycho killer with a chainsaw]] and [[HookHand a hook for a hand]]. Everyone thinks it's for real and as the night goes on, the killer does hunt them down, but... [[spoiler:it's actually just Chef and the challenge of the day is to not get caught by him. Even by slasher flick standards, [[DwindlingParty the cast are all "killed off" quick]] due to outright ignoring the rules explained to them by the GenreSavvy Gwen and Duncan. So, it's no surprise that the two end up being [[FinalGirl the only ones left]]. As it turns out, Duncan planned for this, so he could confront and take down the killer himself, which nearly wins him immunity... at least until Gwen is forced to defend herself against the real deal.]]
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