The Slasher Flick or Dead Teenager Movies:

In 1979 a movie was released named Halloween. It was a very scary movie about, basically, a killer in a mask that murders baby-sitters. The film was dark in tone and bad in acting but it struck a chord with audiences and critics and became the top grossing Indies film ever. It turned Jamie Lee Curtis and John Carpenter into acting and directing stars. Then came the backlash. Hollywood has a knack for taking an idea or style and doing it to death. They took the Slasher genre, created by Halloween, and re-did it many, many times. Movies like Friday The 13th and Halloween 2 were shoddy and cheap, yet they became huge hits. As the 80’s went on the movies got worse and worse and their box-office diminished as well. Slasher films were DEAD! Everyone was happy. Until 1996 when scribe Kevin Williamson penned scream, a great, funny, scary movie that poked fun at how shallow and obvious Slasher films were. The film went on to be a huge sleeper hit. It grossed over 100 million dollars at the Box-Office. It was followed almost a year later by the terrific, I Know What You Did Last Summer, which reminded us about what we liked in the Original Halloween. I Know was a hit, as was Scream 2, a sequel even better than the original. Slasher films are back, but they won’t be for long. Sooner or later Hollywood will release too many of these movies and the entire genre will be flushed down the toilet...again.