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The Slashers

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A year-by-year journey through slasher movie history with debates, awards, and deep cuts from three horror film critics. Travel back to the golden age of slasher movies one year at a time with The Slashers. A horror movie podcast hosted by Paul from The Countdown, Megan from Spoilerpiece Theatre, and Jason from Binge Movies, each season dives into a specific year in slasher history, starting with 1980, the moment the genre exploded into the mainstream. Every episode features a “Blood Pool” of films where the hosts hand out awards for Best Poster/Box Art, Best Cult Classic, Best Final Girl, Best Kill, and Best Overall Film. From forgotten deep cuts to iconic franchises, The Slashers blends sharp criticism, deep genre knowledge, and wicked humor, perfect for horror fans who love thoughtful debates as much as shocking kills. Whether you’re obsessed with Freddy, Jason, and Michael Myers, or eager to uncover underrated slashers lurking in the shadows, this is your essential horror podcast for film history, trivia, and conversation. Subscribe to The Slashers and relive the thrills, chills, and kills, year-by-year.

Chart trend

Position in the Film History chart (US), last 90 days.

#45
all-time peak
1
day in the top 50 since Jan 2025

Latest episodes

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The Slashies: Best & Worst Slasher Movies (1985–1989) | Kill Awards, Hidden Gems & Horror Debate

The body count is in… and it’s time to crown the winners. After slicing through 1985–1989, we close out Season 2 with The Slashies! Our full-on slasher awards show. Expe

Mar 26
1 h 28 min

1989 Part Two

The Slashers: 1989 - Part 2 The end is here! 1989 finds us digging into three late-cycle oddities: Offerings, Grave Robbers, and Cutting Class. A disfigured outcast re

Mar 19
1 h 34 min

The Slashers 1989 Part One

The Slashers: 1989 – Part 1 The end of the decade is in sight, but 1989 isn’t going quietly. This week, we dive into three wildly different slices of late-’80s horror:

Feb 20
1 h 29 min

The Slashers 1988 Part Two

This week is all cornfields, canals, and killer toys! The Slashers slice into the back half of 1989. This time, we’re stalking scarecrows in the cornfields, unearthing sa

Feb 13
1 h 47 min

The Slashers 1988 Part One

The Slashers return to slice and dice the end of the decade with 1988: Part One. From the horrors of wholesome America to militarized police, low-budget chaos, and shocki

Feb 6
2 h 02 min

Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025) Review | The Slashers

It’s Christmas, and Billy is back. On this episode of The Slashers, we review Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025), the unrated reboot of the infamous holiday slasher, writt

Dec 12 2025
36 min

Peeping Tom (1960) : The Birth of the Slasher

Peeping Tom (1960) is the taboo-shattering thriller that dissected voyeurism, exposed the predatory psychology baked into filmmaking, and, ironically, became the accident

Dec 5 2025
58 min

The Slashers 1987 Part Two

Our journey through 1987 continues! This time, slicing through Christmas carnage, rural rampages, real estate nightmares, and one of the greatest sequel glow-ups in horro

Nov 28 2025
1 h 31 min

The Slashers 1987 Part One

We’re carving into some truly deranged offerings from 1987, because nothing says “family holiday” quite like identity theft, sleazy LA strip joints, Italian arthouse mayh

Nov 21 2025
1 h 46 min

The Slashers 1986 Part Two

The summer of ’86 wasn’t just big hair and bigger explosions; it was a massacre. Slashers were getting weirder, wilder, and way more unhinged. In Part Two, we dive into f

Nov 13 2025
1 h 26 min

The Slashers 1986 Part One

The mid-’80s slashers are evolving!  Trading grindhouse grime for glossy kills, wild twists, and dark comedy. In this episode, Jason, Paul, and Megan carve into four film

Nov 6 2025
1 h 22 min

The Slashers 1985

The Slashers return to 1985 when gore went direct-to-video. Paul from The Countdown, Megan Kearns from Spoilerpiece Theater, and Jason from Binge Movies slash through Mur

Oct 30 2025
1 h 04 min

The Slashers Season II

Season 2 of The Slashers slashes into the second half of the ’80s! An era when the sub-genre got gorier, campier, and more unhinged than ever. From cult curiosities to in

Sep 26 2025
1 min

The Slashers Epilogue

Join Jason of Binge Movies, the creator and brains behind this limited series podcast, Megan from Spoilerpiece Theatre, the heart and soul of the series, and Paul from Th

Nov 6 2023
1 h 07 min

The Slashers 1984

Join Jason of Binge Movies, the great defender of all that slashes, Megan from Spoilerpiece Theatre, who dives deep into those same slashers to reveal the deeper themes,

Oct 30 2023
1 h 55 min

The Slashers 1983

Join Jason of Binge Movies, the sadistic programmer who enjoys torturing the others hosts with his film selections for the Blood Pool, Megan from Spoilerpiece Theatre, wh

Oct 23 2023
1 h 56 min

The Slashers 1982 Part 2

Join Jason of Binge Movies, the defender of all trashy slashers, Megan from Spoilerpiece Theatre, with her scholarly perspective on said trash, and Paul from The Countdow

Oct 16 2023
1 h 48 min

The Slashers 1982 Part 1

Join Jason of Binge Movies, the insane mind from which this limited series podcast was born, Megan from Spoilerpiece Theatre, she who could not say no to Jason, and Paul

Oct 9 2023
2 h 01 min

The Slashers 1981 Part 2

Join Jason of Binge Movies, the cult movie champion, Megan from Spoilerpiece Theatre, the magnificently centered voice of reason, and Paul from The Countdown, the show's

Oct 2 2023
1 h 34 min

The Slashers 1981 Part 1

Jason from Binge Movies, the B-movie appreciator, Megan from Spoilerpiece Theatre, the beautifully balanced film critic, and Paul from The Countdown, the show's version o

Sep 25 2023
1 h 24 min

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