10 Overlooked Horror Slasher Movies That Deserve Your Attention

In keeping with the theme of theatre-based slashings, there's plenty of bloody good fun to be had with Stage Fright, a truly bonkers and wildly energetic film that takes all the high-energy of Giallo films and layers it atop a traditional slasher set-up.

The action focuses on an escaped mental patient who breaks into a nearby theatre where a troupe of actors is in the midst of an overnight rehearsal for what they call an 'intellectual musical' - one that happens to be about a man in an owl costume who has a penchant for murdering ladies of the night...

As you can imagine, life soon begins to imitate art, and once suited up in that frankly awesome looking owl costume, our killer sets out on a bloody rampage, chopping and slicing his way through the cast with relative ease.

There's a really wicked sense of humour and mischief at play in this one, which may take away from the suspense, but that needn't matter when we're treated to numerous gory death scenes and some truly inventive film-making. Everything is presented with such grandiose style and a boat-load of bombastic energy that it's impossible to not enjoy this one.