slasher
a person or thing that slashes.
a person who criminally attacks others with a knife, razor, or the like.
a horror film depicting such a criminal and featuring gory special effects.
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How to use slasher in a sentence
However, they have to respect the slasher films that came before to solve a new mystery.
At their core, the Scream movies aren’t teen slasher films, but are bloodsoaked whodunnits in which anyone and everyone is a possible suspect.
Gone, for the most part, was the particular magic of the unreflective slasher flick, and its stranglehold on the public imagination.
Until Dawn is the closest that video games have come to a playable slasher film.
This makes for some skillfully paced, pop-culturally literate, yet quite generic, slasher fare.
Netflix's Fear Street Trilogy Is Generic Straight-to-VHS Horror With Nostalgic Flair | Judy Berman | July 7, 2021 | Time
The slasher film series Friday the 13th is well known for its homicidal tendencies.
How to Save Silent Movies: Inside New Jersey’s Cinema Paradiso | Rich Goldstein | October 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHalloween also helped spawn the slasher film genre, and provided the genre with many of its tropes.
The Week in Nostalgia: ‘Halloween’ Turns 35, Butch and Sundance Debut, and the iPod is Born (VIDEO) | Chancellor Agard | October 26, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTFor a generation raised on slasher flicks and fountains of gibbering gore this film would be an Ativan.
Carsten Stroud’s Book Bag: My Top Five Horror Classics | Carsten Stroud | July 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTSeveral days earlier, the Chinese Twitter-like microblog called Weibo had circulated reports of a serial subway slasher.
Not Just Sandy Hook: China’s Terrifying Knife Attacks | Melinda Liu | December 15, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTHowever reactionary a sycophant to rich people and slasher of programs for others he might be, he is the governor.
There must be a splendid operation, though, to-morrow—magnificent sight if slasher does it.'
The Pickwick Papers | Charles DickensBut there must be a splendid operation, though, on the morrow—magnificent sight if slasher did it!
Charles Dickens as a Reader | Charles Kent"We'll act here;" and all, even the Valiant slasher, pressed in as quickly as possible.
The Peace Egg and Other tales | Juliana Horatia EwingYes, slasher, thou hadst better go, Else the next time he'll pierce thee through.
The Peace Egg and Other tales | Juliana Horatia EwingI cull these flowers of speech from a wreath placed by a critic of the slasher on my own early brow.
Some Private Views | James Payn
British Dictionary definitions for slasher
/ (ˈslæʃə) /
a person or thing that slashes
Australian and NZ a wooden-handled cutting tool or tractor-drawn machine used for cutting scrub or undergrowth in the bush
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