slasher film

  • Halloween Kills Is Surprisingly Timely, Says Jamie Lee Curtis

    Halloween Kills Is Surprisingly Timely, Says Jamie Lee Curtis

    In slasher movies, it tends to be one killer versus one victim at a time. Rarely does the horror spill out into the streets in a significant enough manner that the victim can recruit other people to help them fight back. In Halloween Kills, though, that’s exactly what happens, and Jamie Lee Curtis thinks that’s…


  • Shudder’s Vicious Fun Grins Its Way Through Serial-Killer Mayhem

    Shudder’s Vicious Fun Grins Its Way Through Serial-Killer Mayhem

    Twenty-five years ago, the first Scream movie found great success dropping characters who happened to be horror-movie fans into a slasher plot ripped from the aisles of Blockbuster Video. Vicious Fun, a new Canadian horror-comedy now streaming on Shudder, offers a similar scenario but with a protagonist whose love of splatter doesn’t actually give him…