The appeal of slasher flicks has always kind of been lost on me. When I was a kid the posters would give me the willies, but upon watching my first one I felt it was little more than watching two-dimensional characters getting picked off one-by-one for the glee of it. I kind of feel the way about all slasher flicks how Bingo feels about the beginning of Scream. They just strike me as little more than a sadistic thrill.
As a teenager, the first time a date snuggled up next to me and buried her head in my shoulder during a scary bit, I decided I had discovered their true reason for existence.
Though it could be argued zombie movies offer the same kind of sadistic thrill as slasher films, I really do enjoy them. Perhaps its the world gone to chaos/survival aspect of them I appreciate. Double standards, I suppose.