Each week, Terror Cult singles out a singularly perverse facet of the horror genre to be explored, catalogued, and eviscerated before the very eyes of CraveOnline’s hapless and bemused readership. This week, we explore the rise of the ‘80s slasher film, noble ancestor of the modern era’s straight-to-VOD “torture porn” glut.
Though it has clear relatives and antecedents from overseas…
