Lee Harry
Lee Harry is an American film director and editor, best known for directing the Christmas slasher film ''Silent Night Deadly Night 2'' and ''Street Soldiers''. Along with fellow Burbank editor Joseph H. Earle, Harry was tasked to use his editing skills to make ''Silent Night, Deadly Night: Part 2'' look like a different film than the original, which would then be repackaged as a sequel. It has since become a cult classic. Harry admits to being pleased by the reception the notoriously inept film has received. He has done motion picture advertising trailers for Carroll & Co, Seiniger Advertising, Cimarron-Bacon-O’Brien, Vision Advertising, Kaleidoscope Films, and Buddha Jones. His dramatic short film ''The Whistler'' was nominated at the Burbank International Film Festival (2015). Harry received a Student Academy Awards, Student Academy Award for his work on ''Button, Button'' in 1978. The film was screened by director Steven Spielberg. His other accolades include a Hollywood Rep ...
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Slasher Film
A slasher film is a genre of horror films involving a killer stalking and murdering a group of people, usually by use of bladed or sharp tools like knife, chainsaw, scalpel, etc. Although the term "slasher" may occasionally be used informally as a generic term for any horror film involving murder, film analysts cite an established set of characteristics which set slasher films apart from other horror subgenres, such as monster movies, splatter films, supernatural and psychological horror films. Critics cite the Italian ''giallo'' films and psychological horror films such as ''Peeping Tom'' (1960) and '' Psycho'' (1960) as early influences. The genre hit its peak between 1978 and 1984 in an era referred to as the "Golden Age" of slasher films. Notable slasher films include ''The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'' (1974), '' Black Christmas'' (1974), ''Halloween'' (1978), '' Friday the 13th'' (1980), ''A Nightmare on Elm Street'' (1984), '' Child's Play'' (1988), '' Candyman'' (1992), ''Scr ...
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