5 Forgotten Slasher Movies That Have Aged Like Fine Wine

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Listen up: Peeping Tom, House of Wax, and Scream 4 are underappreciated and overlooked slasher horror movies that just got better with age.

5 Forgotten Slasher Movies That Have Aged Like Fine Wine Image via Dimension Films By Samuel R. Murrian Published Mar 23, 2026, 8:39 AM EDT Samuel is Collider’s List Flex Editor (before Lead List Editor), which means he’s pretty much always hovering around Collider’s List department. (and honestly, same)

A writing and editing automaton based in Nashville, Tennessee, and sometimes Los Angeles, Samuel has been working in entertainment journalism for over 10 years.

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Sign in to your Collider account Add Us On follow Follow followed Followed Like Like Thread Log in Here is a fact-based summary of the story contents: Try something different: Show me the facts Explain it like I’m 5 Give me a lighthearted recap John Carpenter ‘s Halloween is the kind of movie that needs no introduction, and it’s near-impossible to overstate its influence on culture to this day. After the micro-budgeted, codifying slasher became the most successful independent movie ever made, the formula it incidentally established was mercilessly ripped off so incessantly for decades, that for many, “slasher” was synonymous with horror.

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