The Best Slasher Movies of All Time

Undated Photo Actress Jamie Lee Curtis Is Shown In A Scene From Her New Horror Film "halloween H2o..

UNDATED PHOTO – Actress Jamie Lee Curtis is shown in a scene from her new horror film “Halloween H2O” with masked bogeyman “Michael Myers.” To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the original “Halloween,” Dimension Films is releasing the sequel to the 1970s horror classic, which inspired many 1980s slashers like [“A Nightmare on Elm Street” and “Friday the 13th”] with scene after scene of bloody suburban mayhem and slaughter.

Love ’em or hate ’em, slasher movies are among the most popular films in the horror genre.  “Entertainment Weekly” just posted a list of the 21 best.

Here are the Top 10:

1.  “Halloween”  (1978)

2.  “Psycho”  (1960)

3.  “A Nightmare on Elm Street”  (1984)

4.  “Friday the 13th”  (1980)

5.  “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre”  (1974)

6.  “Scream”  (1996)

7.  “Black Christmas”  (1974)

8.  “Maniac”  (1980)

9.  “April Fool’s Day”  (1986)

10.  “The Burning”  (1981)

SOURCE: EW.COM