User blog comment:KevlarNinja/HELLO, BOY AND GIRLS!- KevlarNinja's slasher Tourament/@comment-2136224-20130103232616/@comment-2136224-20130104010700

Easy, just think about the basics of a slasher.

They often have a pychological problem (Norman Bates was smothered by his mom, so he snapped, killed her, and now often cross-dresses as her).

Sometimes they have superhuman abilites (even if they are just plain crazy people) like swift movment or pain tolerance).

They are up-close and personal, loving to scare their victums and maim them when a simple kill could suffice.