10 Must-Watch Slasher Movies, Ranked

Slasher movies are a staple of the horror genre. Influenced by films like Psycho, Peeping Tom and the Italian giallo movement, filmmakers in the 70s began to create the foundations of the slasher subgenre. After the monumental success of John Carpenter's Halloween, slashers became the most prolific category of horror for the entire decade of the 80s. Since that peak, slashers have gone through multiple resurgences, as new generations of filmmakers continue to take stabs at the subgenre.