What is your favorite slasher type movie?
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Damn good movie...I've always been interested in that type of lore (I won't spoil it for those that haven't seen it but I'm referring to the twist ending)
Exactly. Michael doesn't need a backstory. When you give pure evil a backstory it makes it less scary because now you understand him. I don't want to understand the bogey man just let him be. He put so much focus on Michael he forgot to develop the characters around him; they're the ones I should care about. Your horror movie villain doesn't need to be anything except an idea for the audience to latch onto but you have to develop the victims. Give us someone to root for or feel bad for when they die and he did none of that. Glad the franchise tossed him to the bushes
The thing is that they offer up this explanation for why Michael is the way he is but it's pretty unsatisfying. It's like the ending to Psycho where they have the psychologist straight up explain Norman Bates. It should make sense but we don't buy it. He's already fukked up before everything in the movie is set in motion so the "he's a disturbed kid" angle from Loomis comes across as a cop-out. Plus we know that Loomis is trying to sell books. Zombie's Halloween sequel is much better in that it's more obvious that Michael is some inhuman force.
As for slashers, I like
-Halloween, original; Halloween 1 and 2, remakes
-Texas Chainsaw Massacre, original and remake
-Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, the one with Dennis Hopper. I met the screenwriter of this one, he had just come out of writing Paris, Texas which was a huge critical success. He's getting all this acclaim, all this attention and then he decides "Okay, this is too much. I'm gonna do the exact opposite of what I just did. I'm gonna write a comedy slasher." Really nuts shyt.
-Friday the 13th remake
-Black Christmas, original
-Dressed to Kill. Leave it Brian DePalma to make a movie that is somehow sleazier than most slashers.
Not calling you out but it's so funny that you say all the new slasher stuff (I'm assuming like Hatchet, which is a piece of shyt) is all excess blood/torture porn but then you've got New York Ripper on your list.
New York Ripper was not torture porn and it was a giallo: it was fun and a mystery slasher, not the shyt today; the kills were related to the story and the blood wasn't gratuitous like today; Besides, NY Ripper isn't the greatest slasher ever, but I gotta show Fulci love since he did The Beyond and Zombie Flesh Eaters, my 2nd and 3rd favorite horror movies of all time behind the Shining
New York Ripper is mean as hell. Man that movie hated the fukk out of the women it had killed in it. The Beyond is the better Fulci though for sure.
i just be browsin cable, net & hit the red box randomly just searchin... always come across somethin like
& gotta check it, findin dope stuff by accident..... my moms got fear.net i think its called on cable & all they play is horror flicks...i seen some "Jeffrey Dhamer" slasher flick that was really good but i dont remember the actual name.... dude would get em high as fukk then tell em get some more beers out the fridge, they see dismembered bodies & turn around shook to
dude would invite people over wit dead bodies in the next room then cuddle up to corpses in his bed while they pass out on the couch, movie was crazy....
@nalej i know yall on a more serious tip but i love those slasher flicks that be so bad they good like "Jack Frost", "Santas Slay" & "Gingerbread Man", that shyt wit the asylum breakout clowns....
i read the descriptions like
& gotta get it.... thats probably my favorite slasher type movie, the fukkery is just too powerful...
i read the descriptions like
& gotta get it.... thats probably my favorite slasher type movie, the fukkery is just too powerful...
lol jack frost and its sequel are just some of the pieces of crap and enjoyable flicks ive watched in the 90z.@nalej i know yall on a more serious tip but i love those slasher flicks that be so bad they good like "Jack Frost", "Santas Slay" & "Gingerbread Man", that shyt wit the asylum breakout clowns....
i read the descriptions like
@nalej i know yall on a more serious tip but i love those slasher flicks that be so bad they good like "Jack Frost", "Santas Slay" & "Gingerbread Man", that shyt wit the asylum breakout clowns....
i read the descriptions like
Yea I love those type of B movies too...the first Jack Frost is pure comedy
very entertaining parody..
@ jackfrost..
the sequel was just terrible, the costume was straighht out of a high school play..
the sequel was just terrible, the costume was straighht out of a high school play..
repped... once i read "serial killer becomes a radioactive powered snowman" then seen the preview off him in the shower wit that chick i was done... copped it instantly & was
....@Tuaminator beat me to it...
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Stole Timberlake's Spaceship-Coupe
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Child's Play
Friday The 13th
Child's Play
Friday The 13th