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Subgenre Sampler

 
Wraith, TheWraith, The (1986)
Dir. Mike Marvin
Feat. Charlie Sheen, Nick Cassavetes, Sherilyn Fenn
Cartoonish supernatural actioner starring Charlie Sheen as a murdered Arizona teen who mysteriously returns from the dead as an all–powerful…
Initiation, TheInitiation, The (1984)
Dir. Larry Stewart
Feat. Daphne Zuniga, Vera Miles, Clu Gulager
A department store–set 80's slasher flick starring Daphne Zuniga (BEVERLY HILLS 90210) as an amnesiac sorority member plagued by a recurring…
Nightmare On Elm Street, ANightmare On Elm Street, A (1984) Recommended
Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. John Saxon, Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp
The maiden nightmare of the razor–fingered dream–demon Freddie Krueger, who went on to become the pre–eminent horror icon of the…
ChristineChristine (1983) Recommended
Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul
A persecuted teen finds unlikely kinship in a girl with a diff – a demonically–charged 1958 Plymouth that indulges in dispatching…
Sweet SixteenSweet Sixteen (1983)
Dir. Jim Sotos
Feat. Aleisa Shirley, Bo Hopkins, Susan Strasberg
Forgotten slasher from the 80's that instead slashes the boys instead of the girls, when a soon–to–be sixteen–year–old girl…
Burning, TheBurning, The (1981)
Dir. Tony Maylam
Feat. Brian Matthews, Leah Ayres, Brian Backer
A proficient slasher in the wake of FRIDAY THE 13TH in which a former summer camp caretaker plots bloody revenge on the teenagers who accidentally…
Friday the 13th [Franchise]Friday the 13th [Franchise] (1980-1989)
Dir. Sean S. Cunningham
Feat. Betsy Palmer, Kevin Bacon
The most successful film to exploit the '80s stalk–and–slash formula, characterised by disposable teenagers being endlessly slaughtered…
Prom NightProm Night (1980)
Dir. Paul Lynch
Feat. Jamie Lee Curtis, Leslie Nielsen
'Halloween' stalk'n'slash protege with Jamie Lee Curtis returning as one of a group of teens with a guilty secret menaced by the ubiquitous masked…
Terror TrainTerror Train (1980)
Dir. Roger Spottiswoode
Feat. Jamie Lee Curtis, Ben Johnson, Hart Bochner
Fresh from HALLOWEEN, Jamie Lee Curtis reprises a 'scream queen' for this teen slasher pic set aboard a chartered locomotive. A gamut of masquerade…
When a Stranger CallsWhen a Stranger Calls (1979)
Dir. Fred Walton
Feat. Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Colleen Dewhurst
"Have you checked the children?". This line and the opening twenty minutes of this film (later parodied in SCREAM) preyed on babysitters' fears the…

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