How to Use slasher in a Sentence
slasher
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This is a cheeky slasher homage and genre fans will lap it up.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 8 May 2025
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Here's why the brutal' clown slasher movie is so hard to watch.
—Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2022
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Speedy slasher who gets to the hoop and the foul line and sets up teammates.
—Omari Sankofa Ii, Detroit Free Press, 18 June 2020
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Noel is a slasher who finds creative ways to finish at the rim.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 11 July 2024
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That much, as with anyone in a good slasher, remains to be seen.
—Sean Abrams, Men's Health, 18 Oct. 2022
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And of course, like any good slasher, fans already have sequels on the brain.
—William Earl, Variety, 7 Apr. 2025
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Not just with the special effects, which are as gory as any slasher movie, if not more so.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 6 Aug. 2021
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But what happens in a slasher film where the entire cast is Black?
—Brendan Morrow, The Week, 1 June 2023
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So what if the same principle were applied to a slasher movie?
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 27 May 2024
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Ghostface makes the move as well but is lost in the big city, a slasher made small in his new playground.
—Dallasnews.com Staff, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
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Mostly a misstep, but still fun for fans of the franchise and of slasher films.
—Evan Romano, Men's Health, 14 Oct. 2022
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That’s a little unorthodox for even a slasher movie to have a kill go on that long.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 28 Oct. 2022
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This is a pretty rote slasher premise, the Utah setting aside.
—Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2021
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That made for a solid revival for the self-aware slasher franchise.
—Jake Coyle, chicagotribune.com, 16 Jan. 2022
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That means slashers, zombie movies, and body horror all get serviced here.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2025
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That’s the tagline for this slasher flick about friends hunkered down at a mansion during a storm.
—Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 19 May 2022
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Up until then, slashers were silent assassins or a breather.
—Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Nov. 2025
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One of the most iconic slasher films is coming back to the big screen for a limited time.
—Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 1 Oct. 2020
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Set at a sleep away camp, the episodes are heavily influenced by the slasher films of that era.
—Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 2 July 2022
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Santa Claus is coming to the grindhouse in this gross, grimy new slasher.
—Brendan Morrow, The Week, 23 Dec. 2022
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The Scream movies are known for being meta slasher Whodunits.
—Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 20 Jan. 2022
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The new Scream, the fifth in the slasher whodunit series, had a lot working against it.
—Evan Romano, Men's Health, 23 Feb. 2022
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The last two episodes of the series are the best, and offer a good twist certain to appeal to slasher fans.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 20 June 2025
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In the mood for a slasher like 'Scream,' or need a classic such as 'Psycho'?
—Emy Lacroix, People.com, 4 Oct. 2024
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These films, and Texas Chain Saw, laid the groundwork for the slasher boom to come.
—Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2024
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Finally, for a whodunit slasher the pace is all over the place, and with it the excitement.
—Jeff Ewing, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
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The Rise of Leslie Vernon, playing about type as a slasher hero.
—Evan Romano, Men's Health, 17 Oct. 2022
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Try and outrun Jason Voorhees in this video game based on the slasher classic.
—Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 27 May 2020
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The main cast is all-Black, and plays on the history of people of color in slasher flicks.
—Okla Jones, Essence, 22 Dec. 2023
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But this is a slasher movie, so of course Helena runs afoul of the killer, who takes her out with a handy icicle.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 Sep. 2019
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