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Originally posted by bwind22
Because I'd give the honor to Bob Clark for Black Christmas over JC for Halloween. It is also, as far as I've seen, the first slasher film that was done in manner that resembles what we still see today.
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Slashers
the first one (if we have to take all murder mysteries into the slasher genre) was in the 40s...Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None"...
The first independent one was "Peeping Tom"(1960)...the year in which "Psycho" released too...then there was Herschel Gordon Lewis' "Blood Feast(1963)...
Bava's "Blood and Black Lace" came in 1964...and "Bay of Blood" in 1971...
although its claimed that "Black Christmas" was the first horror film to use the "the calls are coming from inside the house" plotline...