The Prowler, The Burning (raft sequence is a pure classic), The New York Ripper and Nightmares in a Damaged Brain are all top horror movies.
But there is and always has been a lot of dross in the slasher category, by nature of repetition and contempt - so many different kinds of bogeymen can only creep around so many different settings (and the victims are of course always irrelevant).
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