The Roofer was released on February 22nd, 1991, long after the glory days of slasher flicks, and years before Scream made the genre popular again. The unpopular Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare would come out in September of that year, and two years later Jason Voorhees would return in Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday—the second Friday the 13th film to lie about being the last one. The major franchises were still around, but audiences certainly weren’t flocking to them as they had in the past.
