In the 1970s, a new subgenre of horror was born: the slasher film. The 1960s had shown nascent versions of this formula with movies like Psycho and Peeping Tom, but ‘70s movies like Black Christmas and Halloween truly cemented that these ultra-violent movies weren’t going anywhere.
In 1974, one of the most iconic slasher movies ever hit theaters and started a nine-movie franchise that terrified audiences over and over again. Now, after a long battle for the rights, a modern horror film studio is bringing it back again — but in an entirely new form.
