slasher movie

English

Noun

slasher movie (plural slasher movies)

1. (film) A horror movie which depicts gory, murderous violence, often including scenes of torture.
   • 2011 April 15, Richard Corliss, "Movies: Scream 4 — The Ultimate Shriekquel," Time:

     Two girls, watching a slasher movie about a psycho in an Edvard Munch Scream mask who calls girls at home and then stabs them to death, get a call from a psycho who shows up in a Scream mask and stabs them to death.

Synonyms

• slasher film, slasher flick, slasher

See also

• splatter movie