A Nightmare on Elm Street
A group of teenagers are hunted in their dreams by Freddy Krueger, an undead killer bent on revenge.
The directory
Films: Slasher
Horror films, old and new: what each one is, who made it and how scary it gets.
American Psycho
A Wall Street banker's polished image hides a serial killer in this black comedy horror satire of 1980s excess.
Friday the 13th
Camp counsellors reopening a long-closed summer camp are hunted one by one by a killer nobody can name.
Halloween
An escaped patient returns to a quiet Illinois town on Halloween night, stalking a babysitter and her friends.
Psycho
A stranded woman checks into a quiet motel run by a shy young man and his difficult mother.
Scary Movie
A loving, gag-packed spoof of the big slasher films, following friends who cover up an accident and get hunted by someone in a mask a year on.
Scream
A masked killer stalks a small town a year after a young woman's mother was murdered.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tim Burton's gothic musical of the barber turned killer on Fleet Street.