The slasher is a special kind of horror film, one that usually revolves around a deranged killer who stalks young, attractive coeds. Some slashers take the genre's tropes into new territory, but most of them stick to this basic premise. The 80s gave rise to some of the most iconic slashers, films that came about in the wake of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Halloween.
While villains like Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger are well-known by horror fans, these fellows represent the tip of the iceberg when it comes to slashers. In fact, there's, at minimum, one slasher for every sign of the Zodiac.
12 Aries: Friday The 13th Part III (1982)
Aries will appreciate the brute force masked murderer Jason Voorhees displays in Friday The 13th: Part III, which marks the debut of Jason's iconic hockey mask. An active fire sign, Aries digs horror films that push the limits in terms of physical endurance.
No one endures like Jason, who goes on another revenge-fueled killing spree around Crystal Lake - the sight of his drowning decades earlier by negligent camp counselors.
11 Taurus: Roadgames (1981)
Roadgames is a cat-and-mouse slasher starring Stacey Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis, who play a truck driver and a hitchhiker (respectively) cruising the Australian outback together while a serial killer attacks women around them. The pair decide to unite forces in order to lure and capture the murderer, which the determined and practical Taurus will find compelling.
More than most signs, the earthly Taurus values ambition and hard work over all else – traits possessed by the two main characters in this slasher.
10 Gemini: Sleepaway Camp (1983)
No one appreciates campy horror like quirky and sociable Geminis, and Sleepaway Camp is all about camp – literally. The film follows a shy camper who struggles to make friends at summer camp while a series of bizarre accidents and deaths unfold around her.
The consummate air sign, Gemini loves to have things to talk about. This sign won't be able to stop telling all their friends about this slasher's twist ending.
9 Cancer: My Bloody Valentine (1981)
Bashful and emotional Cancers are driven by love and feeling connected to others. For members of this water sign who don't find horror films too tasteless, My Bloody Valentine combines low-budget slasher vibes with a romantic theme.
In this Canadian film, the town of Valentine Bluffs is haunted by a mining accident twenty years earlier on Valentine's Day. A crazed killer in miner's gear descends upon the locals on the anniversary of the tragedy.
8 Leo: Fade To Black (1980)
Fade to Black is a cinematic homage to Hollywood's Golden Age filtered through a slasher lens. Dramatic and theatrical Leos, fire signs who love being doted on and paid attention to, will enjoy this story about a film geek named Eric who experiences a mental breakdown and starts dressing up like all of his favorite movie characters.
In histrionic fashion, Eric transforms into the likes of Dracula and then seeks vengeance against those he believes has wrong him.
7 Virgo: Child's Play (1988)
Homebound and family-oriented, Virgos are reserved earth signs who show affection for others by doing things and working hard. This sign will be terrified by the possessed doll Chucky in Child's Play, which makes its way into the home of a mother and her son as a birthday gift.
Chucky is animated by the spirit of a psychotic serial killer, and it's up to the boy to save the world from the toy's reign of terror.
6 Libra: Curtains (1983)
An air sign, Libra responds to beauty, balance, and art. Curtains, which follows a group of young female actors auditioning for a movie in a remote mansion, is the perfect film for those born under the Libra sign.
As Curtains progresses, a murderer disguised in what looks like an older person's warped mask goes after each woman. The death scenes are visually bizarre and unique, guaranteed to keep Libras glued to the screen.
5 Scorpio: Halloween II (1981)
October 31 is the quintessential Scorpio holiday, which means the Halloween franchise is the perfect series for this intense water sign. Halloween II picks up on the same Halloween night as the first film, with the masked boogeyman Michael Myers tracking down his sister Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) in the hospital – where she is recovering from her encounter with him earlier in the evening.
Scorpios seek out evocative, intimate experiences, and they will vibe on this claustrophobic tale about one crazed man trying to wipe out everyone in his family.
4 Sagitarrius: A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)
"Why are you screaming?" Freddy Krueger is an uncouth, sardonic child murderer who wears a bladed glove and hunts teens while they sleep. Krueger turns out to be one of the more humorous and showy slasher killers, though, making him the perfect horror movie bad guy for Sagittarius.
Sagittarius is an outgoing fire sign who loves a good joke, and Krueger has plenty of them in A Nightmare on Elm Street.
3 Capricorn: The Burning (1981)
No one understands the importance of manual labor like a pragmatic Capricorn. This conservative earth sign will find The Burning intriguing, which follows a hard-working camp caretaker who is severely burned after a prank committed by some campers goes horribly wrong.
With his large hedge sheers, the caretaker returns to the camp several years later to let the campers know how he feels about what happened to him.
2 Aquarius: The Slumber Party Massacre (1982)
Slumber Party Massacre may center around a group of young women who are attacked by a madman while having a sleepover, but it's actually a female-directed feature that hopes to highlight the misogynistic overtones in the slasher genre. The intellectual and egalitarian Aquarius will love this film's subversive themes and satirical tone.
Aquarius, an air sign, lives for innovation and thinking outside the box, meaning they love any movie that challenges the status quote.
1 Pisces: Stage Fright (1987)
This singular Italian slasher about actors rehearsing for a small-town play is the ideal horror movie for Pisces, an artistic and emotional water sign that responds to moods and feelings. In Stage Fright, the actors are attacked by an unknown assailant who dons a large owl's head mask.
What ensues is a gorgeously-filmed slasher that turns out to be an extended metaphor for the creative process.
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