13 SLASHER FILMS THAT INSPIRED SCREAM and HORROR NEWS OF THE WEEK

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This week on HNR, movie news of the week and the top 13 Slasher Films that influenced the SCREAM franchise . All this, and more, coming up next…Join your host Doc Rotten are the scariest, goriest, bloodiest co-hosts on the ‘Net: Dave Dreher, the lead news writer at Gruesome Magazine, and Crystal Cleveland, the Livin6dead6irl.

HORROR MOVIE NEWS

Jamie Lee Curtis dedicates Oscar win for Best Supporting Actress in Everything Everywhere All At Once to “Hundreds” including Genre Fans! Source: Deadline

Alicia Witt and Blair Underwood join Nicolas Cage and Maika Monroe for Osgood Perkins’ next feature, Longlegs.

Warner Bros. is courting Jenna Ortega for Beetlejuice 2. Source: Hollywood Reporter

TOP 13 SLASHERS THAT INFLUENCED SCREAM (Chronologically)

• Norman Bates (1960, Psycho)
  • d. Alfred Hitchcock
  • a. Anthony Perkins
• Billy (1974, Black Christmas)
  • d. Bob Clark
  • a. Albert J. Dunk (uncredited)
• Leatherface (1974, Texas Chainsaw Massacre)
  • d. Tobe Hooper
  • a. Gunnar Hansen
• Michael Myers (1978, Halloween)
  • d. John Carpenter
  • a. Nick Castle and Tommy Lee Wallace
• Curt Duncan (1979, When a Stranger Calls)
  • d. Fred Walton
  • a. Tony Beckley
• Mrs. Pamela Voorhees / Jason Voorhees (1980, Friday the 13th)
  • d. Sean S. Cunningham
  • a. Betsy Palmer and Ari Lehman
• Frank Zito (1980, Maniac)
  • d. William Lustig
  • a. Joe Spinell
• Cropsy (1981, The Burning)
  • d. Tony Maylam
  • a. Lou David
• The Miner / Harry Warden (1981, My Bloody Valentine)
  • d. George Mihalka
  • a. Peter Cowper
• Russ Thorn (1982, The Slumber Party Massacre)
  • d. Amy Holden Jones
  • a. Michael Villella
• Angela Baker (1983, Sleepaway Camp)
  • d. Robert Hiltzik
  • a. Felissa Rose
• Freddy Krueger (1984, A Nightmare on Elm Street)
  • d. Wes Craven
  • a. Robert Englund
• Charles Lee Ray / Chucky (1988, Child’s Play)
  • d. Tom Holland
  • a. Brad Douriff