A genre of horror that includes a teenage character going through every day events of a teenager's life.... And then they get brutally murdered. Teen horror mostly is aimed at a teenage audience as well despite most of these slashers having an 18 BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) certificate. Most Teen horror films are mindless slashers with no real plot line to it apart from blood, guts and gore; If there is a plot line to a teen slasher it most likely includes a brutal death or two.
The first notable Teen slasher is Halloween (1978). Halloween starred Jamie Lee Curtis as an everyday teenager babysitting for a neighbour stalked by a masked un-killable psychotic mental patient known as Michael Myers who is later revealed to be her long lost brother. Halloween was the catalyst for a revolution in the horror film industry in the 1980's, the revolution of the teen horror.
The 80's is when the teen slasher really evolved in the film market. After Halloween came Halloween II (1981), A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984) and Friday The 13th (1980). Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees were the main characters that spearheaded the charge of Teen horror to major fruition in the 80's.
The Friday the 13th franchise tells the story of immortal hockey masked psycho Jason Voorhees who terrorises the teen residents of Camp Crystal Lake where he drowned as a child. Jason isn't seen wearing the hockey mask until Friday the 13th part 3 (1982).
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