slasher movie

English

Noun

slasher movie (plural slasher movies)

(film) A horror movie which depicts gory, murderous violence, often including scenes of torture.
- 2011 April 15, Richard Corliss, "Movies: Scream 4 — The Ultimate Shriekquel," Time:
  Two girls, watching a slasher movie about a psycho in an Edvard Munch Scream mask who calls girls at home and then stabs them to death, get a call from a psycho who shows up in a Scream mask and stabs them to death.

Synonyms

slasher film, slasher flick, slasher

See also

splatter movie

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