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Originally posted by urgeok
i'll say it before someone else does ..
its probably at least the second -
Bava's Bay of Blood (Twitch of the Death Nerve) beat it by a couple of years)
god knows there's probably something before that too..
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my bad there...you are right urge, the first one (if we have to take all murder mysteries into the slasher genre) was in the 40s...Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None"...
The first independent one was "Peeping Tom"(1960)...the year in which "Psycho" released too...then there was Herschel Gordon Lewis' "Blood Feast(1963)...
Bava's "Blood and Black Lace" came in 1964...and "Bay of Blood" in 1971...
I missed quite a few of em... :D
although its claimed that "Black Christmas" was the first horror film to use the "the calls are coming from inside the house" plotline...