Watch enough slasher movies, and identifying all the familiar tropes starts to feel like second nature: the car failing to start, phones running out of juice (or there’s no service), sex becoming a death sentence, characters making the ill-fated decision to split up, a seemingly vanquished killer suddenly springing back to life. More than any other horror subgenre, slashers tend to adhere to a formula—so much so that there’s a whole franchise dedicated to satirizing them. But just because slashers check off certain boxes doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty to admire about these films.
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