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Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs  Personally, I use
as a rough guide to define a slasher film. There is no set time period for me (there are slashers being made today for instance), and whilst I may consider films from outside of North America as slashers, I do not class gialli as such, as they have their own specific niche 'rules' of their particular sub-genre. I also do not class things like Alien as slashers, as creature features tend to come down to 'animal instinct' or the battle for survival rather than pre-meditated murder. Slashers also (generally) have an air of 'whodunit' to them whilst creature features usually don't.
I guess it it all comes down to personal interpretation though. |
Ah, I quite agree with your view, the whole body count mysterious madman aspect, but no gialli or monster. Except I generally just do 1970-1990 personally as I'm not a fan of much past it, but I would make exceptions for some things, such as Scream.