Was This the Birth of the Slasher? | Psycho, Peeping Tom & the Origins of Horror's Deadliest Genre

What if the slasher didn't begin with Halloween? In this video I go back to 1960 to look at two films that changed horror forever — Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and Michael Powell's Peeping Tom. Neither film is a slasher in the modern sense, but both introduced ideas that would become the foundations of the genre: point-of-view stalking shots, psychologically damaged killers, women placed in peril, shocking violence, and even the now-famous trick of killing off a major character far earlier than audiences expected. From there we'll look at how these innovations evolved through films like Black Christmas before finally exploding into the slasher boom with Halloween in 1978. So... was 1960 really the birth of the slasher? #Horror #Slasher #FilmHistory