So now that the job market is improving, why is the slasher lifestyle becoming even more common?

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Zombie has ditched the slasher flicks with his latest project, a movie adaptation of the Philadelphia Flyers' famed Broad Street Bullies teams of the 1970s.

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Merrie Paulsen was convinced that Patty was, in fact, the slasher.

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Scientists named the slasher gamma secretase, but this is about the same as calling an unknown serial killer "Jack the Ripper" or "The Unabomber" and drawing a composite sketch.

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First though, Solovev had to deal with a young bear, about 2m tall with handsome claws, that the rangers had started calling "Freddy Krueger" in homage to the razor-clawed slasher from the horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street.

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And there you have it, dear readers, the ten best slasher movies ever made!

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The early eighties were the heyday of slasher and splatter movies.

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Like the killers in bad slasher movies, this tax subsidy wreaks havoc wherever it goes, appears to meet its demise in the last reel, yet returns to create more misery.

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The heavy-metal shock rocker and founder of White Zombie found new fame as the writer-director of slasher films.

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The Cabin in the Woods starts off like any other slasher movie, but things slowly evolve.

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