slasher film

  usually a cheaply-made sub-genre film (usually in the horror genre) designed for the teenage audience (teen movie), deliberately made to contain gory, blood-splattering, explicit deaths without any build-up, style or suspense, often committed by an unstoppable serial killer, with a sharp bladed weapon; most slasher films are created to generate sequels and repetitive boredom; aka splatter films; see also trash film, grindhouse film, schlock film, B-Film and Z-film

  Examples: Three of the best known, classic slasher films that were commercially successful include Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), Carpenter's Halloween (1978), and Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984); also the films of Mario Bava and Dario Argento (i.e. Deep Red (1975)), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), Lucio Fulci's Zombie (1979), Sleepaway Camp (1983), the Friday the 13th franchise; also in the parodies beginning with Scream (1996).