Slasher Predecessors

A shot rings out in a darkened apartment; a woman screams and flees, tricking architect Jimmy McMillan into giving her a ride. McMillan returns and finds a body; but the police find a different body! He and the woman in question (Mary Rawlins, niece of the late owner), both suspects, become allies; among light romantic banter they hunt the real killer behind the seven doors of a blind alley, housing eccentric suspects and a dark, intricate, spooky cellar...

A former tennis star arranges the murder of his adulterous wife.

A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.

A secretary on the run for embezzlement takes refuge at a secluded California motel owned by a repressed man and his overbearing mother.

In 14th-century Sweden, an innocent yet pampered teenage girl and her family's pregnant and jealous servant set out from their farm to deliver candles to church, but only one returns from events that transpire in the woods along the way.

The brutal stabbing murder of a justice-of-the-peace sparks an investigation of dark family secrets in a sleepy small town in Southern California.

A masked, shadowy killer brutally murders the models of a scandalous fashion house in Rome.

An Egyptian caterer kills various women in suburban Miami to use their body parts to revive a dormant Egyptian goddess while an inept police detective tries to track him down.

A scheming widow hatches a bold plan to acquire her late husband's inheritance, unaware that she is being targeted by an ax murderer who lurks in the family's estate.

A war veteran from a wealthy but troubled New England family is suspected in a series of brutal murders in his small town.

An American writer vacationing in Rome attempts to unmask a serial killer he witnessed in the act of an attempted murder, and who is now hunting him and his girlfriend.

A cleaver-wielding bridal designer murders various young brides-to-be in an attempt to unlock a repressed childhood trauma.

Two young English women go on a cycling tour of the French countryside. When one of them goes missing, the other begins to search for her. But who can she trust?

The murder of a wealthy countess triggers a chain reaction of brutal killings in the surrounding bay area, as several unscrupulous characters try to seize her large estate.

Shortly after moving to Vienna, Austria with her diplomat husband, a woman is stalked and terrorized by a mysterious razor-wielding maniac, with people around her getting killed one by one.

A woman's husband dies in a plane explosion leaving her with 1 million dollars in life insurance. She travels to Greece for the payout, and an insurance investigator is on her tail trying to determine if any foul play is involved.

An American journalist temporarily stationed in Central Europe searches for his new girlfriend, who has suddenly disappeared.

A babysitter is terrorized by the child's father, escaped from an asylum.

A recently institutionalized woman has bizarre experiences after moving into a supposedly haunted country farmhouse and fears she may be losing her sanity once again.

As a young child Jack the Ripper's daughter witnesses him kill her mother. As a young woman she carries on the murderous reign of her father. A psychiatrist tries to cure her with tragic consequences.

This is the story of four jewel thieves on the run who decide to hole up with a hillbilly couple until the search for them slackens off.

A young man finds himself in a strange town with strange things going on. Two sisters, possessed, create a Jekyll-Hyde atmosphere where bizarre killings occur. Our hero fall in love an enters a new world of mind-shattering experiences.

A mad scientist transforms himself into an aquatic killer.

Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.

A young reporter enlists the help of a top notch private eye to solve the murder of a female stripper at a Chicago nightclub.