Stars: | Thriller films By decade Pre-1940s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s v t e This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. [72], Internationally, Australia released Next of Kin while Puerto Rico's Pieces was filmed in Boston and Madrid by an Italian-American producer with a Spanish director. "Vicious Cycles." [89] Lesser-known horror properties Sleepaway Camp, The Slumber Party Massacre and Silent Night, Deadly Night became series on home video. | Wes Craven Janet Leigh, [22][9]Despite most films receiving negative reviews, many Golden Age slasher films were extremely profitable and have established cult followings. The following year A Nightmare on Elm Street remake , like the Friday the 13th remake, had a large opening weekend but quickly fell off the box office charts after. New Line Cinema's highly anticipated Freddy vs. Jason (2003), in development since 1986, took note from Scream, and mixed nostalgia with recognizable actors. Independent distributor Embassy Pictures released The Seduction to a surprising $11 million, an erotic slasher-thriller that predates blockbusters Fatal Attraction (1987) and Basic Instinct (1992) by several years. Betsy Palmer, | | Stars: Horror, Thriller 29,725 Mike P. Nelson A&E's Bates Motel and former MTV and now, VH1's Scream offered creative deaths and cathartic suspense, while Freeform's Pretty Little Liars and The CW's Riverdale took more restrained approaches to the young adult demographic. Jessica Biel, Deborah Shelton, Votes: $24.43M, R [6], Slasher films typically adhere to a specific formula: a past wrongful action causes severe trauma that is reinforced by a commemoration or anniversary that reactivates or re-inspires the killer. 99 min | 109 min | Charlie Plummer, Anthony Michael Hall, [72] Fantasy and sci-fi genres continued to blend with the slasher film in Strange Behavior, GhostKeeper and EvilSpeak. Blumhouse released meta-sequels The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014) and Halloween (2018), which retconned their predecessors to begin a new continuity. Gregg Henry, The remake-era peaked in 2009 under releases of My Bloody Valentine, Friday the 13th, The Last House on the Left, Sorority Row, The Stepfather and Halloween II. $18.47M, R Darren Lynn Bousman | $25.79M, R [44] Films such as Play Motel (1979) and Giallo a Venezia (1979) exploited their low-budgets with shocking hardcore pornography. Robert Englund, Skeet Ulrich, Votes: [72] Jamie Lee Curtis starred in the independent Prom Night, as well studio films Terror Train and The Fog to earn her "scream queen" title. Robbi Morgan, Votes: Neve Campbell, Danielle Panabaker, Votes: 113,147 Both series fell out rather quickly, when Child's Play 3 (1991) selling only 3.5 million tickets in North America and Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995) selling only 3.2 million. Priestley. Stars: [73][22], Low budget exploitative films New Year's Evil, Don't Go in the House and Don't Answer the Phone! [69] Despite a financial success, distributor Paramount Pictures was criticized for "lowering" itself to release a violent exploitation film, with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert famously despising the film. Adam Devine, [51][52] Mario Bava's A Bay of Blood (1971) is a whodunit depicting creative death sequences on a lakeside setting, and greatly inspired Friday the 13th (1980) and its 1981 sequel. Horror, Mystery. 160,493 cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims. Nicholas Tucci, Votes: Thriller is a 2018 American slasher film directed by Dallas Jackson in his directorial debut. | Gross: 96 min Anna Faris, Mary Harron $42.07M, R Stars: | Virginia Madsen, | Teyonah Parris, sfn error: multiple targets (2×): CITEREFKerswell2012 (. Alone in the Dark was New Line Cinema's first feature film, released to little revenue and initially dismissed by critics, though the film has gained critical reappraisal. Alicia Witt, | Tim Matheson, 506,907 22 March 2000. $103.05M, TV-MA Sean S. Cunningham [86] On a budget of just $1.8 million, the film was a commercial success, grossing more than $25.5 million in North America and launched one of the most successful film series in history. | Gross: [128] The film is expected to be released in 2021. Heather Langenkamp, Director: (1986), Killer Workout (1987), and Death Spa (1989). [5] The slasher canon can be divided into three eras: the classical (1974–1993), the self-referential (1994–2000) and the neoslasher cycle (2000–2013). New French Extremity violence was influential in High Tension (2003), Them (2006), Inside (2007), Frontier(s) (2007) and Martyrs (2008), which became worldwide hits. | Gross: | Distinguished by overtly homoerotic undertones, Freddy's Revenge became the highest grossing horror film of 1985 and inspired "dream" slashes Dreamaniac (1986), Bad Dreams (1988), Deadly Dreams (1988), and Dream Demon (1988). Tony Todd, | In Canada, whodunit Curtains had a brief theatrical life before finding new life on VHS, while criticism toward American Nightmare's portrayal of prostitutes, drug addicts, and pornography addicts hurt its video rentals. 99,294 | Gross: Stars: [39][40] Richard Hillard's Violent Midnight (1963) showed a black-gloved killer's point of view as they pull down a branch to watch a victim and also featured a skinny-dipping scene. Crime, Horror, Mystery. Straight-to-video remakes Mother's Day (2010), Silent Night (2012) and Silent Night, Bloody Night: The Homecoming (2013) were met with little reception or praise. The Museum of Modern Art [New York]. 90 min A young African-American visits his white girlfriend's parents for the weekend, where his simmering uneasiness about their reception of him eventually reaches a boiling point. Bill Sage, Votes: | The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake sold over 13.5 million tickets in North America and was followed by The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006), which sold a respectable 6-million tickets, though it was still struck by diminishing returns. Bailee Madison, This grotesque style translated to Andy Milligan's The Ghastly Ones (1969), Twisted Nerve (1968), Night After Night After Night (1969) as well as The Haunted House of Horror (1969). Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 15 October 2020. Christian Bale, | Director: Stars: Filmmakers must lean into them, but also find ways to subvert them. Maniac was maligned by critics. | Taissa Farmiga, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi. Exploitative Killer's Delight is a San Francisco-set serial killer story claiming to take inspiration from Ted Bundy and the Zodiac Killer. Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995) was released under Miramax's Dimension Films banner, to negative fan reaction, and a weak box office.[93]. Beverley Mitchell, | Its success has largely been credited to its opening scene, in which a babysitter (Carol Kane) is taunted by a caller who repeatedly asks, "Have you checked the children? WestBow Press. Anna Hutchison, | Gross: [22] Robert Siodmak's The Spiral Staircase (1946), based on Ethel White's novel Some Must Watch, stars Ethel Barrymore as a sympathetic woman trying to survive black-gloved killers. Stars: Stars: [76][72], Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho's influence was felt two decades later in Funeral Home[77] and The Unseen. The drop in budgets to accommodate a more economic approach was usually met with a decline in quality. Section E, page 1. Sam Raimi Robert Fuest's And Soon the Darkness (1970) set off the '70s exploitation wave by maximizing its small budget and taking place in daylight. $32.75M, NC-17 iMDB.com [Los Angeles]. | Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Votes: $37.90M, R [28] That same year, Michael Powell released Peeping Tom, showing the killer's perspective as he murders women to photograph their dying expressions. Director: | [7] Acclaimed filmmaker Brian De Palma's Psycho-homage Dressed to Kill drew a wave of protest from the National Organization for Women (NOW), who picketed the film's screening on the University of Iowa campus. Films like Final Destination (2000), Jeepers Creepers (2001) and American Psycho (2000) slasher film values in mainstream movies, but they deviated from the standard formula set forth by movies such as Halloween (1978), A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) and Scream (1996). | Gross: [18] In both films, the town dwellers are pitted against strange country folk, a recurring theme in later horror films. [20] Early examples include a maniac seeking revenge in The Terror (1928), based on the play by Edgar Wallace. "Decadence Meets Death On an 1800's Plantation." $52.60M. 119,635 Mark D. Eckel (2014). Damien Leone [116] On September 13, 2019, the film Haunt was released by Momentum Pictures. [22] These protagonists are often outsiders reluctantly brought into the mystery through extenuating circumstances, like witnessing a murder or being suspected of the crimes themselves. Along with the "madman on the loose" plotline, these films employed several influences upon the slasher genre, such as lengthy point of view shots and a "sins of the father" catalyst to propel the plot's mayhem.[19]. The reboot Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013) acts as a sequel to the 1974 original film, but lackluster box office profits led to its prequel Leatherface (2017) to a direct-to-download release (Leatherface was filmed in 2015 but shelved for two years). A list of thriller films released in the 1980s. | Gross: | Halloween grew into a major box office success, grossing over $70 million worldwide and selling over 20 million tickets in North America, becoming the most profitable independent film until being surpassed by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990).[67]. Karyn Kusama Despite these criticisms, Zombie's Halloween sold nearly 8.5 million tickets, but its negative reception hurt its violent sequel Halloween II (2009), which could not sell 4.5 million tickets just two years after its predecessor. | | | Gross: | Stars: 102 min Catherine Corcoran, R "Marj Dusay." Joshua McIvor, Jonathan Demme Jonathan Breck, Ryan Phillippe, Votes: The most successful slasher of the year was Psycho II, which grossed over $34 million at the box office. Callum Keith Rennie, Crime, Drama, Mystery. [72] Because of this change, independent productions began having difficulties finding theatrical distribution. [119] [120], Jordan Peele is producing Candyman for Universal Pictures and MGM. Siskel, in his Chicago Tribune review, revealed the identity and fate of the film's killer in an attempt to hurt its box office, and provided the address of the chairman of Paramount Pictures for viewers to complain. | 1,474,111 Kehr, Dave. Samantha Mathis, [81], Traditional slasher films saw less frequent output. | The series will air on the Sci-Fi network. It sold a massive 14 million tickets at the domestic box office, acting as a symbolic love-letter to slasher films of the Golden Age. Johannes Roberts Horror, Thriller. 70,332 Community choice by Chelsea Rose – @chelsea_burnham. Adam Wingard Friends hiking the Appalachian Trail are confronted by 'The Foundation', a community of people who have lived in the mountains for hundreds of years. Director: Best Horror/Thriller/Slasher Movies 180 titles 1. The poster for Mortuary features a hand is bursting from the grave, though the undead have nothing to do with the film. In Asia, Hong Kong released The Deadly Camp (1999) and South Korea released Bloody Beach (2000), The Record (2001), and Nightmare (2000). Stars: Jordan Peele Joanne Vannicola, Director: Dylan McDermott, Bodies are turning up around the city, each having met a uniquely gruesome demise. | [90] Trying to cater the public of adult action thrillers that were popular in the 1980s, Sylvester Stallone's cop-thriller Cobra (1986) is a thinly-veiled slasher film advertised as an action movie, and sold 13.2 million tickets. | | [38], Francis Ford Coppola's debut, Dementia 13 (1963), takes place in an Irish castle where relatives gather to commemorate a family death but are murdered one-by-one. Comedy. The Philadelphia Inquirer. 110 min "[68] Less successful were Ray Dennis Steckler's burlesque slasher The Hollywood Strangler Meets the Skid Row Slasher and Abel Ferrara's The Driller Killer, both of which featured gratuitous on-screen violence against vagrant people. Of those, Friday the 13th was most successful selling 8.7 million tickets and Sorority Row was least successful with under 1.6 million tickets sold. 121,738 ", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Slasher_film&oldid=1022631291, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 11 May 2021, at 16:09. 27,759 | Sharni Vinson, A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a new killer, who targets the girl and her friends by using horror films as part of a deadly game. Paul A. Partain, Votes: [31] Joan Crawford starred in William Castle's Strait-Jacket (1964)[32] and in Jim O'Connolly's Berserk! Just when the kids think their luck couldn't get any better, things start happening that make them question the intention of their host. Bill Sage, | Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives. Director: Rea, Steven. Three sequels and a television series followed The Purge, while Happy Death Day 2U found modest success in February 2019. | Kim Dickens, Votes: | Charlotte Vega, | Gross: Stars: Retrieved 5 October 2010. 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The Nightmare on Elm Street series dominated late-1980s horror wave, with A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) selling 11.5 million tickets in North America, and A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988) following another 12 million tickets. 97 min A wealthy New York City investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies. Michael Spierig, The criticisms that began with Friday the 13th would lead to the genre's eventual decline in subsequent years. Anne Heche, Joe D'Amato's gruesome Italian horror film Antropophagus and the Australian slasher Nightmares showed that the genre was spreading internationally.[80]. Horror, Thriller. $157.02M, R Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer were internationally popular. [82] Robert Hiltzik's Sleepaway Camp was a home video hit, being unique for its pubescent victims and themes of paedophilia and transvestism. Grindhouse 2007, 191 min. John Gavin, Votes: Films such as Hospital Massacre and Night Warning enjoyed strong home rentals from video stores, though Dark Sanity, The Forest, Unhinged, Trick or Treats, and Island of Blood fell into obscurity with little theatrical releases and only sub-par video transfers.[81]. Many slasher films released decades ago continue to attract cult followings. Keenen Ivory Wayans Stars: Like Halloween, Clark's film opens with a lengthy point-of-view, but it differs in the treatment of the killer's identity. | Justin Theroux, Warner Bros.'s Eyes of a Stranger ($1.1 million) and Night School ($1.2 million), Paramount Pictures' The Fan ($3 million), Universal Pictures' The Funhouse ($8 million), and Columbia Pictures' Happy Birthday to Me ($10 million). Paula Brancati, Many 1984 slasher films with brief theatrical runs found varying degrees of success on home video, such as Splatter University, Satan's Blade, Blood Theatre, Rocktober Blood and Fatal Games. As 1990s Scream-inspired slasher films dwindled in popularity, the remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) became a sleeper hit by playing on public's familiarity of the 1974 original but promising updated thrills and suspense. Carpenter denies writing sexually active teens to be victims in favor of a virginal "final girl" survivor, though subsequent filmmakers copied what appeared to be a "sex-equals-death" mantra. John Cusack, Stars: Web. [22] Suffering similar censorship was The Burning, which also employed Savini's special effects, though it does mark the feature film debuts of Brad Grey, Holly Hunter, Jason Alexander, Fisher Stevens, Bob Weinstein and Harvey Weinstein. Director: Tobin Bell, Crime, Horror. Stars: Stars: Neil Jackson, These small but noticeable changes would come to affect the genre in the coming decade. | Desmond Harrington, Votes: Director: Lars von Trier $29.21M, Unrated Horror, Thriller. Jamie Lee Curtis, Horror, Thriller. Carmen Electra, Votes: The Spiral Staircase also features an early use of jump scares. As the investigation proceeds, evidence points to one suspect: John Kramer, the man known as Jigsaw, who has been dead for over 10 years. | Jenna Kanell, [22] The success of A Nightmare on Elm Street welcomed in a new wave of horror films that relied on special effects, almost completely silencing the smaller low-budget Golden Age features.[88][22][1]. Universal Pictures had a tiny release for Death Valley, while Columbia Pictures found modest success with Silent Rage. [22] Two sequels had bigger body counts and more gore than their predecessors, but not higher box office intakes. [22] William Castle's Homicidal (1961) features gore in its murder scenes, something both Psycho and Peeping Tom had edited out. | Despite making $4,053,000 on a $620,000 budget, Black Christmas was initially criticized, with Variety complaining that it was a "bloody, senseless kill-for-kicks" flick that exploited unnecessary violence. Director: The House on Sorority Row followed the same general plot as Prom Night (1980) with guilty teens stalked and punished for a terrible secret. Thriller Assault (1971) and Spanish mystery A Dragonfly for Each Corpse (1974) share many traits with Italian gialli. Craig Wasson, 93 min Christopher Jacot, See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. 112 min | After swapping bodies with a deranged serial killer, a young girl in high school discovers she has less than 24 hours before the change becomes permanent. Supernatural slasher films continued to build in popularity with The Slayer, The Incubus, Blood Song, Don't Go to Sleep and Superstition (the supernatural-themed Halloween III: Season of the Witch, though part of the Halloween franchise, does not adhere to the slasher film formula). | Richard DeManincor, | Patricia Belcher, Votes: | | In the Pacific, Australia released Symphony of Evil (1987), Houseboat Horror (1989), and Bloodmoon (1990), while Japan released Evil Dead Trap (1988). Director: When shown an early cut of Halloween without a musical score, all major American studios declined to distribute it, one executive even remarking that it was not scary. Director: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Without major studio backing for theatrical release, slasher films became second only to pornography in the home video market. Edwin Neal, | Gross: On Halloween night, Tara Heyes finds herself as the obsession of a sadistic murderer known as Art the Clown. The success of FX's American Horror Story and AMC's The Walking Dead green-lit a number of networks to develop horror series, several structured or based on slasher films. [46], Post-World War II Germany adapted British writer Edgar Wallace's crime novels into a subgenre of their own called Krimi films. Michael Bowen, Votes: Josh Lucas, 2000 saw the debut of Andrew Repasky McElhinney's second feature[94] as a writer/director, the period art-slasher film, A Chronicle of Corpses, starring Marj Dusay,[95] Kevin Mitchel Martin, Oliver Wyman, David Semonin, Margot White and Ryan Foley. Erica Leerhsen, Votes: [70] The MPAA was criticized for allowing Friday the 13th an R rating, but its violence would inspire gorier films to follow, as it set a new bar for acceptable levels of on-screen violence. Over 20 New Horror Movies and Shows Releasing in May 2021! These films typically begin with the murder of a young woman and typically end with a lone female survivor who manages to subdue the killer, only to discover that the problem has not been completely solved. Europe saw releases from Sweden's Blood Tracks (1985), The United Kingdom's Lucifer (1987), Spain's Anguish (1987) and Italy's StageFright (1987) and BodyCount (1987). | Gross: [14] Maurice Tourneur's The Lunatics (1912) used visceral violence to attract the Guignol's audience; films like this eventually led to public outcry in the United States, eventually passing the Hays Code in 1930. Holdovers filmed during the Golden Age such as Too Scared to Scream (1985), The Mutilator (1985), Blood Rage (1987) Killer Party (1986) and Mountaintop Motel Massacre (1986) found video distribution. Director: [72] Two high-profile slasher-thrillers were met with protest, William Friedkin's Cruising and Gordon Willis' Windows, both of which equate homosexuality with psychosis. $0.09M, Unrated 95 min Director: Horror, Mystery, Thriller. | | [59] Pete Walker broke taboos by advertising his films' negative reviews to attract viewers looking for the depraved, using a "no press is bad press" mantra with The Flesh and Blood Show (1972), Frightmare (1974), House of Mortal Sin (1976), Schizo (1976) and The Comeback (1978). | 614,481 Paris Hilton, https://www.vulture.com/.../best-slasher-horror-movies.html 94 min Comedy, Crime, Drama. $159.34M, R $41.78M, R Moria - The Science-Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review", "The Sexual Politics of Sleepaway Camp | New Beverly Cinema", "Master Class: How Wes Craven Reinvented the Horror Genre Three Decades in a Row | Tribeca", "Behind the 10 Most Shocking 'Nightmare on Elm Street' Scenes", "How New Line Cinema Is Making a Killing in Horror", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Repasky_McElhinney, https://variety.com/2004/film/reviews/georges-bataille-s-story-of-the-eye-1200532764, https://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/24/movies/film-review-decadence-meets-death-on-an-1800-s-plantation.html, https://vvstaging.villagevoice.com/2001/10/23/vicious-cycles, https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8373229/the-philadelphia-inquirer, https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/23/movies/film-distinctively-american.html, https://villagevoice.com/take/three/winners.php?category=6, https://www.moma.org/collection/works/310670, "Rob Lowe Stars In 'The Bad Seed' Remake With A Gender Switch Eyed By Lifetime", "Bodom-ohjaaja Taneli Mustonen: "Elokuva valmistui vasta eilen illalla, "All The Box Office Records 'Halloween' Broke In Its $76M Debut Weekend", "LeBron James to Produce 'Friday the 13th' Reboot", "Blumhouse to Remake Black Christmas with Director Sophia Takal | Collider", "Happy Death Day Director Offers an Update on His Upcoming Blumhouse Project", "Universal Sets Blumhouse Body-Swap Movie 'Freaky' For Fall Theatrical Release", "Jordan Peele's 'Candyman' Finds Its Star (EXCLUSIVE)", "Universal's 'Candyman' Finds 2021 Release Date", "Blumhouse & Universal Move 'Halloween Kills', 'Forever Purge' & More To Later Release Dates", "Nia DaCosta's 'Candyman' Release Delayed to 2021", "Netflix Boards Coming-Of-Age Slasher Movie With 'Stranger Things' Outfit 21 Laps And James Wan's Atomic Monster", "Netflix and James Wan Joining Forces for Slasher 'There's Someone Inside Your House'! Director: | Director: Emilie de Ravin, Votes: Bex Taylor-Klaus, Sean S. Cunningham's sleeper hit Friday the 13th was the year's most commercially successful slasher film, grossing more than $59.7 million and selling nearly 15 million tickets in North America. Matt Passmore, Bollywood produced the first musical-slasher hybrid with Kucch To Hai (2003), as well as the more straightforward Dhund: The Fog (2003). $25.50M, R Rickey, Carrie. [27], Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) used visuals that had been deemed unacceptable by movie studios, including scenes of violence, sexuality, and even the shot of a toilet flushing. 91 min Director: | Stana Katic, John Hawkes, Votes: | Gross: 99 min Stars: Stars: Lars Klevberg | 123,653 | Paul Lynch's Humongous was released through AVCO Embassy Pictures, but a change in management severely limited the film's theatrical release. Soon widespread outrage led to the film's removal, with only 741,500 tickets sold. | Horror, Mystery, Thriller. Low-budget North American slasher films received limited theatrical releases before the DVD releases (which had replaced the obsolete VHS format). Reunited, the women must fight off the film's maniacal killer. [42] Spain's The House That Screamed (1969) features violent murders and preempted later campus-based slashers. A brother and sister driving home through isolated countryside for spring break encounter a flesh-eating creature which is in the midst of its ritualistic eating spree. Marilyn Burns, Web. | Gross: Vera Miles, [115] On June 19, 2019, the co-producers of It released Child's Play, a reimagining that turns Chucky into an out-of-control artificially intelligent toy. $47.33M, PG-13 Jaume Collet-Serra Horror, Mystery, Thriller. John Saxon, Votes: | [72] Thematically similar to My Bloody Valentine, The Prowler hoped to lure an audience with gore effects by Friday the 13th's Tom Savini but large MPAA edits contributed to its failure to find a nationwide distributor. 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