Slice and Dice: The Slasher Film Forever

Slice and Dice: The Slasher Film Forever

The complete history of mad maniac movies.

2012 · 75 min · ★ 5.2 · Documentary, Horror

A celebration of slasher cinema - from PSYCHO to the present day, with a focus on highlighting many of the genre's forgotten cult classics, deconstructing how to survive a slice and dice movie and meditating upon why it is almost always a final girl and rarely a final guy... this is a documentary which is designed for both the biggest fan of "mad maniac" movies and the person who may only have seen HALLOWEEN and SCREAM. Either way, this is a documentary that proves the SLASHER FILM is truly FOREVER!

Directed by Calum Waddell

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