Why were there so many slasher horror movies made in the early 1980s?
This post originally appeared on Quora January 26, 2020. Why were there so many slasher horror movies made in the early 1980s? When Texas Chainsaw Massacre came out in 1974, audiences were shocked and terrified by it, and people protested it in droves. Some even thought it was real. This turned the interest in slasher…