10 Best Slasher Movies Since 2010
8. The Stylist
Having spent the last several years impressing with her short films, Jill Gevargizian has recently made her feature film directing debut with an expanded take on what horror hounds first saw in 2016's 15-minute offering, The Stylist.
Honing in on the same presence as its 2016 namesake, this year's The Stylist movie is the sort of picture that horror fans will be talking about for years to come. Played by Najarra Townsend, Claire is a hair stylist who has a penchant for scalping her clients and then donning their sliced 'n' diced hair.
Far from your usual slasher that usually centres on an indestructible, hulking killer, The Stylist's Claire is a vulnerable, emotional, delicate, and almost sympathetic figure. Claire doesn't necessarily kill out of malice or out of evil intentions, she instead does what she does as a way to escape her own life and to, if only for a moment, feel like she's in someone else's shoes.
If made at the height of the slasher subgenre in the '80s and early '90s, The Stylist would've been a generic based-on-a-profession picture such as The Dentist, Ice Cream Man, The Babysitter, Hospital Massacre, and The Carpenter.
Thankfully, we instead now get something of genuine quality anchored by a phenomenal lead performance and character.