slasher vs splatter

slasher

noun
  • A horror movie with graphic blood and violence; a slasher movie. 

  • A tool for cutting undergrowth. 

  • One who slashes. 

  • A machine for applying size to warp yarns. 

  • A murderer in such a film. 

  • One who self-injures by cutting. 

  • One who writes slash fiction and/or supports male/male ships. 

splatter

noun
  • A genre of gory horror. 

  • Spurious emissions resulting from an abrupt change in a transmitted radio signal. 

  • An uneven shape or mess created by something dispersing on impact. 

verb
  • To splash; to scatter; to land or strike in an uneven, distributed mess. 

  • To cause (something) to splatter. 

  • To spatter (something or somebody). 

How often have the words slasher and splatter occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )