There truly weresome perfect slasher moviesmade throughout the years.

It features many terrifying moments that have become legendary in pop culture.

For any slasher buff, this classic is undoubtedly a must-watch.

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As they delve deeper, they uncover a web of secrets and encounter more murders.

The investigation leads to a chilling revelation about the true identity of the killer.

This is a chilling and incredibly unnerving classic thatstill disturbs audiences today.

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As the police close in, Mark chooses to end his life on camera, completing his macabre documentary.

That film was A Nightmare on Elm Street.

They didn’t always have to be silent, hulking brutes.

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Friday the 13th is a horror-slasher film by director Sean S. Cunningham and follows a group of camp counselors who are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer known to be the site of a child’s drowning and a grisly double murder. The film began a decades-long franchise that would eventually lead to the creation of Jason Voorhees, one of the most popular horror icons of all time.

It’s still terrifying and iconic today, and one slasher lovers seem to enjoy often.

It can’t be denied how much of an impact this film has on modern slashers.

It’s not hard to see why this film has become a staple of pop culture.

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It’s simply iconic from start to finish.

Psychois one of themost influential horror movies of all time.

It’s pulse-poundingly thrilling, monumentally terrifying, and unsurprisingly iconic.

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Its kills are memorable, the suspense is nail-biting, and its characters are likable and distinct.

During their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked by a stranger.

There’s no denying the impactThe Texas Chain Saw Massacrehas had on slasher movies going forward.

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A group of friends traveling through rural Texas encounter a family of deranged cannibals, including the terrifying Leatherface.

As they explore an old homestead, they are systematically hunted down in gruesome ways.

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Carl Boehm as Mark Lewis peering through a window in Peeping Tom (1960)

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Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street

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Image of Drew Barrymore in ‘Scream’ (1996).

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A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.

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The eye of the killer watches in ‘A Bay of Blood’

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Michael Myers listens to the phone in ‘Halloween’

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Norman Bates brandishes a large knife in a starkly lit silhouette in Hitchcock’s Psycho.

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A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer’s client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.

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During their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked by a stranger.

Gunnar Hansen as Leatherface wielding a chainsaw outside in Texas Chain saw Massacre

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