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The Final Girl trope defined characteristics of the last character left alive to confront the killer in horror films, particularly in slasher films. The rise of feminism in the 1970s became a milestone in the genre as the damsel in distress did not need a man to rescue her anymore. Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns) from T…

AMC Networks has unveiled a slew of renewals across its streaming services. Kin, Bloodlands, My Life Is Murder, Creepshow and Slasher have all been picked up for additional seasons. Slasher, which airs on Shudder, has also set Will & Grace's Eric McCormack as lead on its latest installment, Slasher: Ripper. The…

Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, parent of ad-supported streaming services like Crackle, reported disappointing second-quarter results but showed sharp gains in advertising and licensing revenue. Total revenue came in at $22.1 million, up 64% from $13.5 million in the year-ago quarter but down from $23.2…

Scanners and Videodrome director David Cronenberg is to star in a new season of horror anthology Slasher for AMC streaming service Shudder. The streamer has ordered a new eight-episode installment of the series, which has run for three seasons on platforms including Chiller and Netflix. Slasher: Flesh & Blood…

Chiller is soon to be dead. NBCUniversal confirmed to Deadline today that its 10-year-old horror-fied cable channel, which reaches about 40M homes, will be put on ice for good at year’s end after struggling to secure carriage deals with the likes of Dish, Verizon and others. We hear that NBCU doesn’t plan to pull the…

NBCUniversal’s horror channel Chiller is cutting to the chase with its first original series, created and written by DeGrassi: The Next Generation scribe Aaron Martin, to debut later this year. The network, which is available in 40 million homes, also announced a pair of new original movies coming off successes with An…