Research Feature Film Analysis- Halloween Genre and Audience Halloween is a slasher horror film. Slasher is a sub genre of a horror film, typically involving a psychopathic killer stalking and murdering a sequence of victims in a graphically violent manner. It was directed by John Carpenter, who although has worked in numerous film genres, he is most commonly associated with horror and science fiction films from the 1970s and 1980s. The targeted audience for this film is most likely to be people