Halloween Ends will come out this week, seemingly bringing the decades-long battle between Michael Myers and Laurie Strode to an end. The third film in a rebooted trilogy that ignores everything after the original 1978 slasher classic, Halloween Ends will bring the original final girl, Jamie Lee Curtis, back for one last round. It promises to bring the franchise to a satisfying, albeit hardly final, conclusion.
A love letter to the genre, The Quarry is basically a teen slasher flick in video game form. It’s also a worthy successor to Until Dawn, Supermassive Games’ first horror breakout hit. Using every trope in the teen slasher subgenre — and there are many — but reworking them for the modern player, The Quarry is a gory and satisfying nightmare that balances tension with old-fashioned drama.
Dead By Daylight Slasher films usually follow the final girl, the virginal and innocent protagonist who must fight the seemingly indestructible serial killer chasing her. Usually played by a scream queen, the final girl is the slasher’s most enduring trope. Few films put us in the killer’s perspective, instead keeping them surrounded by mystery for as long as possible, thus increasing their fear factor. Dead by Daylight flips the script by allowing players to step into the killer’s shoes.