How are Modern Slashers Today?
Modern day slashers are still hitting the same beats as original slashers, but now the involve a lot more modern day stuff. A big example is technology. Those 80's slashers didn't have iphones or tv's. When characters were trapped somewhere, they were trapped. There is a specific scene in Scream (1996) where after Sidney gets attacked, Billy enters her home, and a phone falls from his pocket. Any younger viewer would probably not understand why that was suspicious, but at the time, it was unusual for someone to be carrying around a phone. Now, everyone is carrying their phone! Scripts have to write in a lot more stuff nowadays due to the increase of technology and security. When it comes to characters, they are a lot more witty and self-aware than usual. With new directors taking a whack at producing movies, there are newer archetypes and different twists. An example of a modern day slasher movie is Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022), a movie where rich Gen-z friends are stuck in a mansion during a hurricane goes wrong as they find one of their friends murdered. The twist is that there was never a killer, and the death was accidentally self-incflicted. Its a dark yet humorous, and a brilliant spin on slashers.
The Future of Slashers
How are slasher flicks going to evolve from here? How many more twists and beats are going to be created before theres no unoriginality left? Well, the slasher subgenre is still thriving, and the future only seems more promising. Technology is still advancing, and any slasher movie could capitalize on that. Humanity as a whole keeps progressing, and those movements can easily be captured in a slasher. If there was ever a worry that slasher movies would run out of idea, that worry should not be now.