Slasher Films

The horror genre has many sub-genres which it's films fit into. One of these is Slasher which are films recognisable for the shocking amount of blood and gore used in them. Some well known and successful films of the sub-genre include Halloween, which had 7 sequels as well as Rob Zombie re making Halloween 1 and 2, Nightmare On Elm Street, of which there are 5 films and one (utterly terrible) remake which was released in 2010, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which was so popular it had sequels, remakes, games and comic books and Friday 13th, which has several sequels as well as the movie Freddy vs Jason, which took the villain of A Nightmare On Elm Street (Freddy Kreuger) and the villain of Friday 13th (Jason Voorhees) and made a film starring them both.