Best Slasher Movies

The name says it all, doesn’t it? This is just too much fun. Use the mouse to aim, left mouse button to shoot, ‘r’ to reload and ‘q’ to toggle quality. You have to hit them in at least two of their weak spots to kill them – the head, the legs or the torso for zombie that attack head on (no pun intended). Zombies that attack from the side also have weak spots in their legs. Wonderfully gory. Nice graphics as far as free games go.

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Hellraiser is legendary. It’s unique, original and honestly shocking. It perfectly marries sex, violence and gore without going overboard or relying to heavily on any of those elements. Clive Barker is a man that knows horror (see Candyman for further proof of this). With Hellraiser he has created a horror movie for the ages and a truly evil and horrifying movie icon in Pinhead.

Although Hellraiser is more than gore, there is enough carnage to satisfy even the most depraved blood-luster – and it isn’t your typical, run-of-the-mill, slash with a knife gore. The killing, like the movie itself, is creative.

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Sure there isn’t a lot of gore in Christine, but it’s a genuinely scary movie with at least two instances of graphic blood shed. I think the scene (near the end of the movie) that involved a rather large piece of glass in someone’s stomach is particularly good as well as the burning corpse we see earlier on.

With Christine, Stephen King takes what sounds like a ludicrous idea and turns into horror gold. There’s a reason this man is referred to as the King of Horror. He may not be the King of Gore, but he knows had to write a good horror story and Bill Phillips translates King’s novel into a very faithful screenplay which makes a truly frightening movie.

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The Shining, based on Stephen King’s novel of the same name, is horror at its finest. Sure it’s got it’s token blood, but it doesn’t rely on the red stuff to shock and terrify. The power of The Shining is its subtle intensity. There is little violence because the movie just doesn’t need it. The whole film smacks of menace and all things sinister.

The real heat of The Shining – what really makes it work – is the combination of Jack Nicholson’s performance as Jack Torrance and Stanley Kubrick’s expert direction. The music only serves to further the intense mood of the film; cued absolutely perfectly to heighten every scene.

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Candyman isn’t your typical slasher film. I consider it to be one of the best slasher movies ever made because it goes far beyond blood and gore and truly frightens and disturbs you.

Candyman, based on the story ‘The Forbidden’ by Clive Barker, plays on the deep-seeded – although seldom admitted – fear that behind every urban legend there is truth. We’ve all heard this story – say Candyman (or Bloody Mary) three times while staring into a mirror in a dark room, and he will attack you. Some of us even know a friend of a friend who tried it and it worked. “They have scars to prove it and everything! OMG!”  We believe somewhere in the back of our minds that it just might work. So of course we do it. Who doesn’t want to be attacked my a killer spirit? Oh right, pretty much everyone.

So why do we do it? Curiousity is stronger most times than common sense. Nothing happens for most of us. Candyman doesn’t appear and we go on with our lives. For Helen Lyle (played beautifully by Virginia Madsen) in Candyman, he does appear and a whole bunch of people get hacked to deal with a hook.

So maybe we shouldn’t poke the bear… just to be safe.

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