When you sit down to watch a slasher, you know exactly what to expect: a group of faceless youth being slaughtered. From the 1980s to the more recent slasher renaissance (or “slasher-ssance”), with their reliable source of blood, guts, gore, and scares, slashers are the bread and butter of the box-office. We’ve seen it recently with the 2022 blockbuster hit Terrifier 2, which raked in more than $10 million domestically in receipts, and the success of the Scream reboot.