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10 Essential Proto-Slashers
Slashers might arguably be the most popular horror subgenre there is. Before John Carpenter’s Halloween perfected the formula in 1978, proto-slashers, including Psycho, Blood Feast (also part splatter flick), and Black Christmas, were a thing for at least 15 years or so. Many of those pre-Halloween entries mangled various slasher elements, such as a masked
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