Several critics have noted that the film is probably the most influential of Bava's career, as it had a huge and profound impact on the slasher film genre.

This episode is the greatest waste, because movies are the most influential genre the series deals with, their links to the present most potent.

This, like Dadaism before, shows another influential avant-grade artistic genre that suffered from a short peak of popularity.

Her most influential genres were jazz and, out of spite toward her strict high school, rock 'n' roll.

After taking several dance classes through his teenage years, including tap and jazz, Shaun was exposed to his most influential genre and style today, hip-hop.

In Italy, a new type of controversial horror-based thriller called the Giallo film (which began in the 1960s) became a popular and influential genre by the early 1970s.

Zanzibar's taarab music, however, remains the most influential genre on the islands, and a Comorian version called twarab is popular.

Extravagant displays were characteristic of the once influential genre of French grand opera and apt for the work's setting at the Roman Catholic Council of Konstanz (1414-8) in Germany.

Another influential genre was the television newscast, which built on its initial widespread success in the 1960s.

According to Aristides Gazetas, Cinema Novo is the first example of an influential genre called Third Cinema.