There are plenty other types of horror film beyond slashers, and quite frankly, slashers are widely considered to be at the bottom of the totem pole. Monster horror, like The Fly, The Relic, Cloverfield, Salem's Lot and the myriad of vampire and werewolf films immediately come to mind. In those youve got the more artsy stuff like Interview w/ the Vampire and In the Shadow of the Vampire. Sci-fi horror like Alien, the original Terminator, Event Horizon, etc. Ghostie flicks like Shining, Poltergeist, the Ring. Youve got the foreign horrors like european Hammer Studios classics w/ christopher lee and the like doing all their Draculas and all their stuff. Youve got asian horror which tends to be more spiritual in nature, wild spanish and mexican horror which is way out there.. then you got zombies, or the new equivelent "infected" stuff. This is just generalities too, there's stuff that falls between the cracks and doesnt fall into any sort of hard category. Saying that slasher films epitomize ALL horror belies your little knowledge of the subject. It's like saying all comedy is like those retarded Ace Ventura type films, or all rpgs are just like Diablo so why bother playing any others after youve experienced it.