Competent. Workmanlike. Mechanical. (Derogatory).
It's entirely possible to work within the Slasher subgenre and come up with smart, inventive, original films that add something to the canon.
It's easy to forget that, even in the halcyon days of the Slasher, there were dozens and dozens of boring, uninspired, listless entries that sought to exploit It's popularity without any kind of aspiration to higher aesthetic value...and that was fine. In the 70s and 80s, the subgenre itself was fresh and massively…
