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This historical and critical look at slasher films, which includes dozens of clips, begins with "Halloween," "Friday the 13th," and "Prom Night." The films' directors, writers, producers, and special effects creators comment on the films' making and success. During the Reagan years, the films get gorier, budgets get smaller, and their appeal wanes. Then, "Nightmare on Elm Street" revives the genre. Jump to the late 90s, when "Scream" brings humor and TV stars into the mix. Although some criticize the genre as misogynistic (Siskel and Ebert), most of the talking heads celebrate the films: as long as there are teenagers, there will be slasher films, says one.

Includes interviews with Wes Craven, Sean S. Cunningham, Betsy Palmer, Felissa Rose, Tom Savini, Greg Nicotero, Amy Holden-Jones, Stan Winston, Tony Timpone, Rob Zombie and more. A lot provide insight and storys about the making of some of these films and some give there thoughts on what the effects of these films where.

Contains clips of many classic kill scenes from all the past great and no so great slasher films.

Some of the above scenes also contain sex and nudity.

A strong documentary, that has a good cast of people who give genuine and interesting thoughts and story's about these classic movies. Also contains some of the best kill scenes ever seen on screen, and talks about much of the critical outrage and parental protests about many of them, and offers very well thought out, explanations to why these claims are untrue. one warning however, if you have not seen some of these movies you may want to watch them prior to seeing these, as its does contain spoilers.