I'm including this in a working list, in my head if not alluded to in this blog of proto-slashers.
A slasher is/was born of the mystery movie, the detective idea or even revenge story. It's simply taking a basic idea, that of a dead body and no apparent killer, and it's upping the stakes to multiple dead bodies and perhaps an elusive or otherwise unstoppable killer. As time goes on you focus more on the violence or on the killer, but you also don't have to, that is common but is not one of the universal tropes of the slasher film.
Lured is definitely this. For the time, it also has a large body count, that of 8-9 rather than the more typical 1-3 around this time. We follow the "final girl", we follow an investigation, and we have "scares" concerning the villain.
This all said, there is a rather large chunk in the middle about some underground labor force or something, and we really get sidetracked on that. This movie is surprsingly long for the year, at like an hour 45.
Holy crap, I thought I finished this review a long time ago. So I'm cutting it short. I give this 3 stars.
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