10 Best Slasher Movies Since 2010
3. It Follows
Okay, okay. Sure, It Follows doesn't have a central bogeyman at its core, per se, but David Robert Mitchell's 2014 movie is one simmering in slasher tropes.
For those unfortunate youngsters seen in It Follows, they spend the majority of the picture being stalked by an unstoppable, unflinching, relentless presence whose only objective is to kill them. If that doesn't sound like a slasher film, what does?!
Here in It Follows, though, the kicker is that the sinister presence of the tale is essentially a supernatural STI rather than a Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees.
After having sex with her boyfriend, Maika Monroe's Jay is left tied to a chair and bluntly informed that she now has a curse on her. A shape-shifting force will hunt down and murder Jay unless she has sex with someone else - in which case the curse will instead fixate itself on this new target.
Where It Follows particularly shines is in how it utilises sexual intercourse. For decades, having sex meant signing their own death warrant for so many slasher characters. Instead, it would be the wholesome virgins who would always make it out of these situations alive.
In It Follows, we have a film that forces its victim to co-opt sex as a way to survive - all while an unnerving sense of dread prevails as impending death edges ever-closer.