The best slasher movies on Netflix right now – Looper

Though the slasher movie subgenre didn't really gain steam until the '70s and '80s, the United States has a time-honored tradition of folklore that includes more than a few classic monsters. And among those monsters just happens to be one of the most terrifying slashers in American history: the Headless Horseman.

Back in the 1990s, director Tim Burton teamed with one of his favorite actors, Johnny Depp, to make this horrifying specter into their own particular brand of cinematic monster, and the result is a slasher-esque film that even people who aren't super into horror films might enjoy.

Depp stars as Ichabod Crane, this time revamped as a policeman sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of mysterious murders. What he finds as he digs deeper into the mystery is, of course, that the killer is something inhuman, something monstrous, and something that he might not be very well equipped to handle.

In the tradition of classic romps from Hammer Films, the movie is more spooky than outright scary. Still, the feeling of a small town being stalked by a killer with a giant sword makes Sleepy Hollow a nice slasher-adjacent film for budding scary movie fans, and the Tim Burton design of the whole thing adds a layer of whimsy laced with all the blood.

View original post here:
The best slasher movies on Netflix right now - Looper