Welcome to Slasher Island! My name is Flash and I absolutely LOVE Horror movies, especially Slashers! At this site, you will discover information about how the Slasher genre started and the movies that inspired and pioneered the genre, such as Thirteen Women, The Spiral Staircase, Peeping Tom, and Psycho. You will also learn how the tropes started, the Golden Age, etc, leading up to the movies we have today such as big blockbusters like Scream, Halloween, and Chucky, while also learning about Giallo Italian Slasher films that inspired the movies that pioneered the genre; in fact, you will also learn how some indie Slasher films, such as Terrifier, made its way into mainstream Horror.
I have always loved Horror, with my first Horror movie being Friday the 13th when I was 8 years old (I believe), then Halloween and A Nightmare on Elm Street to follow. Although Friday the 13th was my first, my loves transitioned to Scream and Halloween overtime; in fact, my first rated R movie and Horror movie in theaters was Scream 4 in 2011 when I was 14. That movie alone and being able to experience it for the first time on the big screen as my first rated R movie and Horror movie forever changed the way I love Horror and Scream. Due to my love of Horror, in particular Slasher, it made me want to discover and dive deep into the history of the genre, with doing research on how the genre started, what movies inspired what movies, and how we got all the mainstream Horror and Slasher icons we have to this day. So if you’re into blood, guts, gore, and watching people getting hacked up, then you’ve come to the right place!