In our first episode, horror expert and veritable scream queen Ellie Carr helps us define and dissect the slasher genre in its historical and cultural context, before giving us a very idiosyncratic and thoroughly convincing Top 5 that is by turns illuminating, insightful and horribly, hilariously bizarre. Finally, Ellie manages to nail down a universal truth at the heart of the genre which is at once brilliant, beautiful and heartbreaking.