We all know that movie: some psychopath, usually masked or deformed, stalking and murdering pretty young women. This known plot formula constitutes what a slasher film is. Slasher films, or slashers, are a subgenre in the horror film genre where a human/humanoid murders a group of people in a centralized setting using a weapon other than a gun. Slashers and postmodern horror films put precedent over body horror, leaving room in the backseat for character development and plot due to “the demands of presenting the viewer with the uncompromised or privileged detail of human carnage.” Predecessors of the sub-genre did not involve monsters, such as the infamous Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, and Mummy from the Universal Monster era films. Instead,