Murders and Masks and Zombies! Oh My!

By Douglas Polisin
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/distribution/article/landmark_slasher_movies_zombies_horror_20081003/
Somewhere after F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu and the 1950s’ monster mash-up movies featuring mummies and werewolves, the horror genre took a slight detour, trading monster-centric and supernatural premises for more psychological, socially apt and, ultimately, more human antagonists. In the process, two new sub-genres were formed within horror cinema: The slasher flick and the zombie movie. Here, MM counts down the top five landmark movies from each.