As Halloween approaches slasher movies draw their biggest audiences as All Things Considered host Andrew Limbong talks with NPR's Brianna Scott and Ryan Benk about what keeps the genre alive and why ...

Horror is a broad canvas that covers many unique sub-genres, from zombie movies to haunted house flicks. None of them are as intertwined with the genre, however, as slasher horror movies. Some of ...

Sometimes the competition was thick, but here are the top slasher movies of every year from 1980 to 1989. Expect Jason and Freddy.

The history of horror movies is littered with plenty of underrated gems, and the slasher genre has produced more than its fair share of unsung classics. Though the origin of the slasher film is hotly ...

Three women "played dead" while the "Indiana Slasher" stabbed them multiple times, sexually assaulted one of them and left them to bleed out in a cornfield. The suspect, nicknamed the "Slasher" or ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook While slasher movies were a massive craze in the 1980s, they haven’t been nearly as common since ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published in January. We are republishing it as part of year-end review of the biggest stories of the year. Indianapolis Metropolitan Police announced a major ...