often attributive
: one that slashes
especially
: a person who mutilates or kills with an edged blade
a slasher film
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Courteney Cox is also set to reprise her role of Gale Weathers from the original slasher film.
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Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 22 Jan. 2025
Drop is directed by Christopher Landon, best known for writing and directing the Happy Death Day movies and the 2020 slasher Freaky.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 22 Jan. 2025
Some people enjoy the artificial fear of a slasher movie.
—Laurence Scott, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
The chilling serial-killer thriller helped establish the tropes of the slasher subgenre, preceding Halloween by four years.
—EW.com, 28 Dec. 2024
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Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 22 Jan. 2025
Drop is directed by Christopher Landon, best known for writing and directing the Happy Death Day movies and the 2020 slasher Freaky.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 22 Jan. 2025
Some people enjoy the artificial fear of a slasher movie.
—Laurence Scott, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
The chilling serial-killer thriller helped establish the tropes of the slasher subgenre, preceding Halloween by four years.
—EW.com, 28 Dec. 2024
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“Slasher.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slasher. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
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