While Psycho impacted American audiences, Italian audiences were met with Giallo films, which were essentially bloody murder mystery movies. Inspired by these two cinematic events, the slasher was ...
The most iconic scene of the movie, the shower scene, uses tight shots and fast reverse shots ... This film got the horror genre out of the post WW2 monster and sci fi trend, and made the new trend ...
From "Candyman" and Dario Argento classics to Val Lewton and Wes Craven. Slasher movies are generally considered to be among the more disreputable horror film subgenres. They can be misogynistic ...
The title might be Thanksgiving, but it’s a slasher appropriate for Halloween ... Many will associate Psycho with the shower scene. However, Psycho remains a masterclass in suspense and a ...
She was talking, of course, about the most popular and prevalent of all horror subgenres: the slasher film. Prescott’s definition aside, the slasher is a cinematic mainstay that, like Scream ...
The thing is, for the first two thirds, it's actually... fine? I mean, yeah, it's not as clever as Psycho 2. That movie plays with your expectations and respects the character of Norman Bates, whereas ...
It’s not every day a slasher can keep you in suspense, but Psycho II does so with skill, and it never lets up. The film also nails the ending, and I think it’s just as good, and just as ...
Psycho II was made in 1983, and the horror genre was still in its peak slasher cycle with releases ... staged Marion’s memorable death in the shower, and concluding it by having the boy ...