We grew up in the heyday of slasher films.
For those Gen Xers from the late ’70s and ’80s, there were Halloween, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and The Shining. For those who spent their tween and teen years in the ’90s, there were The Blair Witch Project, Scream, and The Silence of the Lambs.
What made these movies so good, and why did we gobble them up like candy corn?
To help hack through decades of horror films past and present, I spoke with John Kenneth Muir, who has written extensively about the best and worst the genre has to offer.
Check out our interview, complete with creepy sound effects, where John talks about the classics that still scare, the ones that have aged about as well as Freddy Krueger’s skin, and a few hidden gems you’ve probably never heard of but need to watch right now.
