They need to do everything they can to try and convince him that his wife is a ghost without alerting the wife to the fact that they know she's a ghost.
The closest thing to a slasher on my list. A movie dripping with racial political commentary, about a white girl researching an urban legend in Cabrini-Green, a notoriously poor and mostly-black community in Chicago.
The middle of this movie is the story of a family. A mom, her daughter, and her second husband, an endearing guy who's trying to connect with his new family.
The beginning of this movie is the same man, in a house full of bloody corpses, changing his appearance before walking out of the house and disappearing into suburbia undetected.
It's powerful, political, poetic. There's ghost stuff but the main undercurrent of fear is the notion that the genocidal dictator might get away with it.
Eraserhead is... if you want to know that psychosomatic thing, where people feel like something is right under the surface of their skin and they're clawing to get it out?
As someone who doesn't mind like, unsettling horror as much as slasher stuff: of the ones I've seen in full or snippets of, Candyman, Ring/Ju-On, and Saw are probably the closest to Slasher in tone.
which is to say that sinking feeling of "these people are fighting against an unstoppable presence. they will not escape, they will lose. if they do not lose, it is just a brief reprieve."
fuck the bourgeoise actuallynovella, how can you fucking say noAnd they say white people have no cultureWe will all sing together~Society waits for you~it's that sensation, as a movie