We’re continuing our look at horror for October. We’ve beheaded the zombies, vanquished the vampires and now we turn our blunt instruments to that other great horror staple, the slasher movie. Whether it’s the supernatural killing machine of Jason Voorhees or the quiet mummy’s boy Norman Bates, the psycho killer has both terrified and enthralled us for decades. One of the earliest examples of the mainstream slasher movie is Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho from 1960 and Hollywood still churns them out today. But it’s tough to define a slasher movie. Does A Nightmare on Elm Street and it’s subsequent sequels count as a slasher movie? It’s certainly has the crazed psycho killer, but does Freddy’s penchant for killing teens in their dreams make is more of a supernatural horror than slasher? How about Jigsaw’s traps and elaborate revenge schemes, does that exclude Saw from the genre - does it firmly belong … There’s more →