Slasher Films: An International Filmography, 1960 through 2001 - Kent Byron Armstrong - Google Books

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The slasher film genre got its start in the early 1960s with filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock Psycho and Michael Powell Peeping Tom making provocative mainstream films, but it is most associated with the late 1970s and the releases of Halloween and…