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Michael Myers, Haddonfield and a piano theme in 5/4; Carpenter made it for $300,000.

A policeman investigates a missing girl on a pagan Scottish island; the ending is the title.

Five students, a cabin and the Book of the Dead; Raimi shot it for $350,000 in 1981.

Eight teenagers in a mountain lodge and a butterfly effect; the slasher as game.

Camp counsellors, werewolves and a cast of film actors; Supermassive's summer slasher.

A masked killer who has seen every horror film; Wes Craven reinvents the slasher.

Five students at a cabin and the office that runs the horror; Whedon and Goddard's meta-slasher.

Wheat fields at magic hour, locusts and fire; the most beautifully photographed film of its decade.