
Maniac
1980 · MovieFrank Zito hunts young women through New York City, scalping them and adding their remains to a growing mannequin collection in his apartment. The mother who made him this way is never far from his thoughts.
Wes Craven. John Carpenter. Kevin Williamson. The slasher genre has a lineage worth knowing. These curated horror slashers cover the full arc, the originals that set the rules, the sequels that broke them, and the modern entries that proved the genre still has teeth.

Frank Zito hunts young women through New York City, scalping them and adding their remains to a growing mannequin collection in his apartment. The mother who made him this way is never far from his thoughts.

Farmer Vincent runs a roadside motel and sells smoked meats locals swear by. The production process is what makes this a horror film.

Tom returns to Harmony after a decade away and gets caught in the middle of a new series of killings at the local mine on Valentine's Day.

Pearl is trapped on her father's Texas farm during the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918, with a controlling mother and a husband she didn't choose, and desires the world has no room for.

Six teenagers have been carrying a guilty secret for years. On prom night, someone shows up to deal with it on their behalf.

Marion Crane stops at an empty motel on the run from her own bad decision, and the manager seems harmless. The house on the hill behind the office is another matter.

After twenty-two years in a psychiatric institution, Norman Bates is declared rehabilitated and returns to the motel. He's trying very hard to stay well.

A runaway nun checks into the Bates Motel looking for somewhere quiet. Norman is genuinely trying to keep things normal.

You stop at a remote roadside motel for the night. It's a short 70s and 80s slasher throwback, and it understands exactly what made those films work.

Norman Bates calls into a late-night radio show to talk about mothers. He has a lot to say.

The original Sleepaway Camp's survivor returns to a summer camp setting where the killing picks up again.

Sam Carpenter and her sister Tara are caught in a new Ghostface killing cycle in Woodsboro that connects back to the events of 1996.

Sidney Prescott is at college hoping Woodsboro is behind her. A new Ghostface has appeared and the rules of sequels become part of the conversation.

Someone in a Red Devil costume is killing off the members of Kappa Kappa Tau sorority, and everyone at Wallace University is a suspect.

A group of young offenders sent to clean an abandoned hotel finds that a very large man has been living inside it.

A killer targets the staff and attendees of a mortuary. Zena and Seth are caught in the middle.

Chucky and Tiffany's child tracks down its parents on a Hollywood movie set and wants to understand which of them it takes after.

Angela Baker barely speaks when she arrives at Camp Arawak with her cousin. Then campers start dying and the investigation circles back to the new arrivals.

Camp Rolling Hills has a new counselor with very clear standards for camper behavior. Violators keep vanishing into the woods.
A stylish Italian slasher with gorgeous set pieces, giallo flair, and some of the most creative kills of the ’80s.
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