Slasher Murderer Films People Eslpod Scared Teenagers Young

A "slasher film" is another "term" (a word with a special technical meaning) for a "horror movie." The verb "to slash" means to cut something violently with a sharp object. Slasher films don't always involve cutting, but they are very violent and have many deaths, usually of teenagers. These films are created to scare people.

Slasher films have many things in common. First, the murderer usually kills teenagers or young people in their 20s who are "engaged in" (participating in) what some people would consider "immoral" (bad and wrong) behavior, such as taking drugs or entering a place they're not supposed to. The murderer is usually a man who causes a lot of fear in other people. In general, the more "moral" (showing good behavior) the characters are, the more likely they are to survive the killer's attacks. In most slasher movies, the "characters" (people in a movie or play) are killed one at a time, until only one girl or young woman is left alive at the end of the movie. She alone makes many "attempts" (tries) to kill the murderer. Sometimes this character succeeds in killing the murderer, but other times the murderer "escapes" (gets away) and "disappears" (leaves without anyone knowing where one went).

One famous slasher film, Halloween, was made in 1978. In this film, the murders happen among teenagers who are "babysitting" (being paid to take care of other people's children). Friday the 13th was made two years later. In this movie, the murders happen at a summer camp. Four years later, A Nightmare on Elm Street was "released" (made available to the public). In this slasher film, children have nightmares about a murderer named Freddy Krueger. Although the murderer exists only in nightmares, he is able to hurt and even kill the people who dream about him.