Best Slasher Movies

This is the movie that started it all… the one and only original Halloween. It’s not a remake. It’s not a sequel but the movie that spawned this legendary series and introduced the masses to Jamie Lee Curtis.

Although Halloween was made in 1978 for only $300, 000, it’s scare factor definitely stands the test of time. There isn’t as much blood and gore when compared to today’s slasher films, but Halloween doesn’t need it. It relies on music, mood and camera work to truly scare the bejesus out of its audience. It takes its time to build characters and make them likable. You really care if Laurie Strode lives or dies. You’re rooting for her to win, even if secretly there’s a part of you that wants to see Michael win too.

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Seed of Chucky has a surprisingly original premise considering this is the fifth movie in the Child’s Play series. Built from that premise is a fun, dark horror comedy. You’ll laugh. You’ll cringe and you’ll hope that this isn’t the swan song for our now beloved Chucky.

There would have been a million ways to ruin this movie – like trying to make it a legitimate horror movie. Seed of Chucky avoids that. It doesn’t take itself seriously and that’s probably it’s greatest strength.

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Well, I have to say, if Bride of Chucky isn’t as good – or better – than any other movie in the Child’s Play series it’s damn close.

Bride of Chucky is light years ahead of Child’s Play three in just about every way. Lots of dark humor, lots of gore and great special effect. The movie looks fantastic; clearly a bigger budget venture than the first movies in the series, but for once, a bigger budget isn’t a bad thing.

The killing are creative and deliciously explicit, which is something I feel was really missing from the first three movies in the Child’s Play series and the cast has improved. Andy doesn’t return in Bride of Chucky, but the fresh faces make the movie seem new and fresh. Jennifer Tilly plays a great evil, murderous temptress who becomes Chucky’s bride. Other names of interest: Katherine Hiegl, John Ritter, Alexis Arquette.

In keeping with previous Child’s Play movies, the dark humor really makes this more of a comedy than a horror, but the gore factor definitely deems it one of the best slasher movies of all time. Also, the opening scene is gold, with the many horror classic references it makes; a trend which continues through the rest of the movie.

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Although Child’s Play 3 was pretty much universally panned by critics and horror fans alike, I actually enjoyed it. It didn’t offer us anything new but it didn’t stray far from the original series and for that, I appreciate it.

Child’s Play 3 is an entertaining movie but definitely not the best in the series. Watch it and enjoy it for what it is – a good bloody mess. See the scene with Chucky and the barber for a good example of this.

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As the title says, Chucky’s back and more evil than ever.

In Child’s Play 2: Chucky’s Back, the spirit of serial killer and voodoo artist Charles Lee Ray is desperate to get out of the doll – Chucky – that has been his home for two years. The carnage that ensues as legendary!

What Child’s Play lacked in gore Child’s Play 2: Chucky’s Back makes up for in buckets. Some argue there are too many plot holes and blah blah blah, but c’mon, people. You’re ready way too far into it. It’s a movie about a serial killer’s spirit possessing a children’s toy which then becomes a serial killer. I don’t think I need to say more about plot holes. It’s just a fun, gory movie. Enjoy it.

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Child’s Play gave the world Chucky and for that, horror fans everywhere are grateful. Although we don’t see much gore in Chucky’s maiden voyage it is a wonderfully twisted and frightening introduction to the demented doll that would entertain us over the course of five movies.

Child’s Play takes place back when Chucky was just Chucky. He wasn’t a husband. He wasn’t a father. He was just a doll – a doll inhabited by the spirit of a murderer. He liked to kill and just generally be a little badass. That’s why we loved him.

Child’s play ins a genuinely frightening movie even if it does go a little light on the blood. Chucky is a horror movie icon and when you watch this movie, you understand why.

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I really had to mull over whether or not to include Army of Darkness on this site or not. Its a great movie – one of my favorites – but it isn’t really a slasher flick. The gore from the first two movies (Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn) is more or less gone and there is little ‘horror movie’ about it, but I decided it belongs here in interest of completing the series. Besides, it’s an awesome movie and worth watching for Bruce Campbell alone. It’s cheesy and over the top, but it is an evil dead movie, so what else would you expect.

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Bruce Campbell reprises his role of Ash – zombie slayer extraordinaire – in Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn; the comedy/horror sequel to the brilliant The Evil Dead.

I’ve heard Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn referred to as a horror masterpiece and I agree wholeheartedly. It has everything – some sincerely scary scenes, gore, evil zombies, an ass kicking hero and lots of laughs.

This isn’t a movie that’s meant to be taken seriously. I’m sure that goes without saying (see Ash fighting his own possessed hand) but I think that’s the problem a lot of people had with this movie, and this series in general. The Evil Dead movies are just a bloody good time. Keeping that in mind, I can’t see how anyone couldn’t love this movie. Top notch. A true classic.

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The Evil Dead… what can you say about a classic?

Here we have the movie that started it all. Made on a $50, 000 budget, The Evil Dead doesn’t rely on special effects and CGI to scare its audience. Sam Raimi’s makes the best of the budget and achieves his goal – to scare the living daylights out of his eager audience.

What you see is what you get with this movie. I’m sure I don’t have to mention that Bruce Campbell as Ash may be one of the best performances in any zombie movie ever made.

There is plenty of disturbing gore and that’s what makes it the horror classic it is. And it is a classic. Legendary. I compel anyone who disagrees to find one gore-hound that hasn’t heard of the ‘tree rape’ scene.

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What a dream for gore-hounds everywhere! Freddy VS Jason, Nightmare on Elm Street meets Friday the 13th. We’d heard the rumors. We’d even seen the clues that it might really happen someday, but I’m not sure anyone really believed it. Then it came – 2003. There it was on the big screen – two horror legends battling it out for psychopathic slasher movie supremacy.

Could it possibly live up to the hype? Could it possibly be as good as everyone was hoping it would be? After all those years, could they really make a movie that would do justice to the enormous cinematic event that this had the potential to be? Could Freddy VS Jason possibly be anything but a let down?

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