- A disfigured sculptor who repopulates his destroyed
wax museum by murdering people and using their wax-coated corpses as displays.
- Budget- $1,000,000
- Box office- $23,750,000- very successful
- Box office- $23,750,000- very successful
- Mystery
Blood Feast (1963)
- First ever slasher film
- Violent
- It concerns a psychopathic food caterer
who kills women so that he can include their -body parts in his meals and
performs sacrifices.
- Budget- $24,500- low budget
- Box office- $4,000,000
- 4 days to film
- Very few deaths
- The narrative focuses on a troubled adolescent girl who becomes a
suspect in the brutal murder of her younger sister at her first communion.
- Budget- $340,000
- Filmmakers were forced to change the title from Communion to Alice,
Sweet Alice, out of fear that the public would perceive it to be a Christian film.
- Masked killer
- Religion
- Female victim- stereotypical throughout the years
Halloween (1978)
- The film was the first instalment in what has become the Halloween franchise.
- On Halloween night in 1963, a six-year-old Michael Myers dressed in a clown
costume murders his older sister by stabbing her with a kitchen knife. Fifteen
years later, he escapes from a psychiatric hospital, returns home, and stalks teenager Laurie Strode and her friends.
- Masked killer
- Female heroine
- Minimal images of blood
- Budget- $300,000- $325,000
Maniac (1980)
- The plot focuses on a disturbed and traumatized serial killer who scalps his victims. Spinell also developed the story and
stars as the lead character.
- Budget- $350,000
- Filming locations- Brooklyn, new york
Scream (1996)
- Mystery and violence
- Highest-grossing slasher film in the US
- Scream ' s success spawned a series of sequels, though only Scream 2, released in 1997
- Scream follows the character of Sidney Prescott (Campbell), a high school student in the
fictional town of Woodsboro, who becomes the target of a mysterious killer
known as Ghostface.
- Budget- $15 million
- Box office- $173 million- very successful
The Texas chainsaw massacre (2006)
- After picking up a traumatized young
hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a deformed
chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.
- Budget- $9.5 million
- Filming location- Texas USA
- Masked killer
- Masked killer
- Very graphic
Saw(2009)
- Insurance executives find themselves in another game
set by jigsaw.
- Box office- $27,700,000
- Torture
Hatchet II(2010)
- A woman returns to the Louisiana swamps along with an army
of hunters to recover the bodies of her family and exact the bloodiest revenge
against the bayou butcher.
- Box office- $156,190
- Budget- $800,000
- Weapons- axe
- Strong bloody horror
violence
- Unsuccessful film
Texas chainsaw 3D(2013)
- A young woman travels to Texas to
collect an inheritance; little does she know that an encounter with a
chainsaw-wielding killer is part of the reward.
- Box office- $47.2 million
- 3D
- Weapons- chainsaws and knives
- Gory
- Female victim- very stereotypical
- Psychopathic serial killer
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