Following the success of John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978), the teen slasher became the dominant genre of 1980s North American horror cinema. While filmmakers in Europe also imitated the narrative and stylistic conventions popularized by Carpenter, however, relatively few Nordic examples exist. Building on existing research into the North American teen slasher, this paper investigates a selection of Nordic teen slasher films with the purpose of exploring how the particular conventions of the genre are translated into a Nordic context. The films selected are two Danish teen slashers, Sidste Time (1995) and Mørkeleg (1996), as well as the Norwegian teen slasher trilogy Fritt Vilt (2006, 2008, 2010). While the North American teen slasher has often been connected to issues concerning gender and capitalism, specifically as related to the Reagan Era cultural mainstream, this paper suggests that the Nordic slasher employs and plays with the conventions of the genre in order to engage various issues more directly related to specifically Nordic contexts. Exploring such issues will help cast new light on how the stylistic and narrative conventions of a uniquely American genre has served as a template for Nordic filmmakers.