As Halloween approaches slasher movies draw their biggest audiences as All Things Considered host Andrew Limbong talks with NPR's Brianna Scott and Ryan Benk about what keeps the genre alive and why ...

Fifty years ago, two independent filmmakers named Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel had a gruesome vision for a new kind of film. Their idea involved merciless kills, a chainsaw, a group of youths and a ...

Between 1975 and 1977, the city of Frankfurt was shaken by a series of brutal murders. Known as the “Frankfurt Slasher,” the killer targeted women — many of them sex workers leaving their bodies in ...