What’s more complicated is properly defining “slasher,” and deciding when exactly the genre began. But more than anything, slasher movies are an exploration of intimacy-the intimacy and invasiveness of physical violence in our lives, and “the morbid intimacy in the act of killing,” as one Paste staffer recently put it in a discussion of the genre. Gallons and gallons of red tempera paint or corn syrup-that’s almost a given. A group of horny, not-so-bright teens in a secluded setting, sure. ![]() ![]() What do you think of, when you read the words “slasher movie”?Ī killer in a mask, perhaps.
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