The scene is familiar: a bored teenage babysitter answers the phone or hears the doorbell ring and ends up getting slaughtered in an elaborate chase scene. A group of friends-- classically the jock, the stoner, the slut, the cheerleader, and the virgin-- all gather in a cabin in the woods before they are violently picked off one by one. Slashers are a wildly popular subgenre of horror, and for good reason: they are violent enough to scare but still follow a discrete formula.
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