Shawn Van Horn has been a Senior Features Writer for Collider since 2022 with a focus on horror, and 90s TV and movies.
The Big Picture Horror underwent a radical change in the 1970s and early '80s, as religious tropes and monster movies gave way to more human threats in masks, creating the rise of the slasher. While many credit Halloween for this boom, it actually began before John Carpenter's 1978 film. The year before, Wes Craven released The Hills Have Eyes which, while not exactly a slasher, carried many of its tropes.
Release Date November 27, 1981 Director Jeff Lieberman Cast George Kennedy , Mike Kellin , Chris Lemmon , Gregg Henry , Deborah Benson , Ralph Seymour , Katie Powell , John Hunsaker Runtime 90 Minutes Main Genre Horror Writers Mark Arywitz , Jeff Lieberman , Jonas Middleton Backwoods Horror Films Set up the Slasher Craze Before there was the slasher, there was the backwoods horror film.
Lieberman didn't set out to make a slasher movie, instead telling Hysteria Lives that he used Deliverance as his model. No backwoods film is more famous than this 1972 classic starring Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, and Jon Voight. While not technically considered horror, it is a terrifying movie, as Reynolds and company are hunted down by the country locals who do not welcome their arrival.
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