If you're like us, your cherished childhood memories include staying up late at sleep

overs with your friends, watching the scariest movie you guys could find.

Bonus points if one of you definitely was not allowed to watch it.

There's always that friend.

But no matter which friend you were, the horror would have you jumping at shadows on your

way to get more snacks from the kitchen and quaking in your sleeping bag, in case the

killer came for you.

But the next morning, you all woke up, had pancakes and claimed you weren't scattered

at all, because it wasn't real, and you were right, sort of.

Today we're looking at the top 10 80s horror movie killers and comparing them to real-life

crimes.

Just because this week's crimes were invented by Hollywood doesn't mean they weren't

at least a little inspired by true events.

So what's more horrifying, truth, or fiction?

Hey all you weirdos, welcome to Crime Countdown, a Spotify original from Parkcast.

I'm Ash, and I'm Elena.

Every week we'll highlight ten fascinating stories of history's most engaging and

unsettling crimes, all picked by the Parkcast Research Gods.

This episode we're counting down the top ten 80s horror movie killers.

Yes.

Horror movies have been, as you know, a fixture of my life since I was way too young to

even appreciate or enjoy them.

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