Nowadays you know «Friday 13th», «A Nightmare on Elmstreet», «Halloween» and of course «Scream», but none of them invented the slasher genre, maybe shaped it, but they weren't the first of their kind. In the following video you can see some illustrative examples that define the genre of slasher horror. Far away from the fake blood, there are also interesting versions of The Film Theorists‹ Kyle, who not only explains to us the development and use of some of the stereotypical elements of the genre, but also introduces us to the first actual film of this kind: "Black Christmas" by Bob Clark in 1974, which in a way actually laid the rules for this kind of Horrors: Pretty Girls, Phone Calls, Holidays. Everything that came after that was basically just a homage, at worst a copy.
Out of horror movie sub-genres, slasher films are perhaps the most famous. They are known for creating classic horror tropes like sex, gore, and women running around pants-less. But what started this gory film craze ??