slasher movie

noun

1. slang.
   a film in which victims, often women, are slashed with knives, razors, etc

Example Sentences

The 2015 "playable slasher movie" from British studio Supermassive Games was a sleeper hit on the PS4, and featured performances from Oscar winner Rami Malek and Heroes star Hayden Panettiere.

From BBC

Gather ’round the table, horror fans, because Eli Roth is finally serving up his long-gestating holiday feast: the seasonal slasher movie “Thanksgiving.”

From Los Angeles Times

This 1998 slasher movie will be most remembered for the return of Ms. Curtis to the iconic role she originally created back in 1978.

From Washington Times

Green’s expertly calibrated movie takes place in surroundings we rarely see outside the grislier class of slasher movie, one that seems built purely to have things go on in it that no one will ever care to recall.

From Los Angeles Times

Blood — viscous and dark, venal and menstrual — soaks all the way through “Perpetrator,” Jennifer Reeder’s hyperbolic stab at the high school slasher movie.

From New York Times