Slasher Films

I guess he gave up on the water park thing?

Kino Lorber is releasing To All a Goodnight on Blu-ray. Finally, you might be able to tell what the hell is going on instead of staring at smeary, inky blackness where you can occasionally make out an axe to the face or severed head or something.

Too bad David Hess didn't make it to see this...

And maybe:

Edit: Nice new special edition TCM release◊.

Oh, and I finally got around to learning how to upload DV Ds to Youtube, starting with a rare slasher I think I mentioned before called Disgruntled - Part 1, 2, 3.

edited 8th Aug '14 12:43:42 PM by CL

Stage Fright (the musical) hit Netflix so I decided to watch it. It's not much of a musical(one or two great numbers, the others aren't that memorable) or a slasher(the deaths are gory but poorly spaced-out). Still entertaining, but another pass during the scripting stage would have helped a lot.

Tim Ritter is raising funds for Truth or Dare? 5

I last watched Varsity Blood.

Swing and a miss.

I think a few people are willing to forgive its shortcomings just because it's a very typical slasher movie. Not to say it's a total piece of shit, but it barely succeeds on its own terms. The kills are pretty gory, but none of them are very inventive, and sometimes they're almost impossible to gauge with the wretched lighting—we're talking Humongous levels here. There's light sex 'n' smut, if anybody cares. The killer is pretty goofy...I kinda liked his look. The unmasking scene is really stupid, though, and not in a funny way. Same case with Bloody Homecoming. I'm noticing a pattern.

I guess if one is desperate to satisfy their stalk-and-slash fix, it might pass muster, but only just. Jake Helgren should try and make a cheeseball like Evil Laugh..I could see that working.

Most of the reviews I've read are similar. Regardless, I'll probably still buy it.

Leprechaun: Origins is apparently terrible, almost entirely due to being a completely generic monster movie that just happens to feature a leprechaun... who doesn't talk, or use weapons and magic. At least we got a new box set, one that actually contains special features, out of it.

Last Slasher (Re)Watched: Violent Shit (1989)

The question is, who on Earth ever said, "you know, I think I want to see another Leprechaun movie?"

But seriously, from what you've just said (and from this review) this is terrible even by reboot/remake/re-whatever standards. If only Hollywood could make an original movie for once. Really, it doesn't even have to be a slasher film! Just make something original.

Me. :'(

So, that upcoming Halloween box set. Still unsure if it will include the theatrical versions of the Rob Zombie films (not that something as minor as their exclusion would stop me from getting it).

No theatrical editions of Zombie's films on either version of the set.

I guess it's a good thing I kept the DV Ds. Then again, if I wanted them on Blu-ray, there's a Canadian double feature set of the theatrical cuts.

This is more of a comic question, but is Freddyvs Jasonvs Ash and its sequel the Nightmare Warriors canon or not? I've heard from several sources that it isn't, yet the F13 wiki acts like it is (while the NOES wiki doesn't even mention it).

It's a godawful comic, so I would prefer "not".

Probably nobody will acknowledge those lines of continuity ever again so it's up to personal preference.

Children of the Corn was plenty psychological — almost inspiring!

I thought Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash was okay. The sequel... was bad.

As for canon, more of a personal thing, really. Same with all of the other spin-offs... which tend to contradict each other, more often than not.

Which I once ran...

edited 6th Sep '14 11:34:43 AM by CL

The Remake That Dreaded Sundown:

I had no idea that TTTDS had enough name recognition to warrant a remake.

It doesn't, but this way they can remake it and strip out anything unique from the original with a minimum of fan backlash.

I was expecting an unremarkable trailer for a lame remake that would be completely forgotten two years later, until the line "And now, he's back". Wait, so this actually takes place in present day? And the killer might be some supernatural thing? I don't know if that's better or worse.

MGM is mining every single property that they own in a desperate attempt to turn things around financially.

Especially since this is apparently getting dumped on VOD during its theatrical release.

The trailer does confirm one piece of information that keeps popping up; it's as much a sequel as it is a remake. You can see the poster for the original behind a character partway through the trailer.

I heard that the opening title is shown by having it superimposed over the original movie's title screen as some characters watch the 1976 film. Uh...clever, I guess.

edited 11th Sep '14 8:09:09 AM by Prowler

So The Incredible Hulk isn't going to be the only requel now.

I know I've already complained about remakes several times now, but why do slasher films get remade the most (even when they have no brand recognition)? At least the sequels add something (no matter how small it might seem) that keeps the series interesting. Remakes, on the other hand, strip out anything that might be interesting and usually just play up the more cliched and annoying aspects of the whole slasher genre, and are pretty much universally reviled.

I don't mind the remakes, despite all of the mediocre to bad ones, along with them (regardless of what the creators always say) inevitably resulting in a Stillborn Franchise.

Only recently became aware that teasers and images are out for Wrong Turn 6. One Eye and Saw Tooth are there, so on top of sounding like a rip-off of Texas Chainsaw 3D (of all things) it's yet another prequel. Must be going for the record.

Yesterday, I picked up Hazmat from Wal-Mart. Guess all of the time I spent searching for the DVD through online retailers was a waste.

I'm on the 3rd part of 11 in $la$her$ on Youtube (it apparently has yet to have a US release). Basic premise is that there's a Running Man-type show popular in Japan where people volunteer to try to survive a course populated with costumed killers with the winner receiving a large amount of money. It's... kind of uneven. I don't know if it's a bad dub, but the characters tend to talk in a very flat tone and have horribly cliched dialogue.

Despite the name, the slashers probably don't count as prototypical slashers as they're all too human (albeit with a massive home field advantage).

edited 16th Sep '14 9:11:45 PM by FuzzyBoots

One thing I wonder about The Town That Dreaded Sundown remake is if it's going to be truer to the real-life killer, who was quite sexually sadistic. Also, is there going to be a reference to the trombone murder?

There's now rumblings of an I Know What You Did Last Summer remake.

It's just bad acting, at least from the contestants. Despite the ambitious premise, it only had a budget of like, $100,000.

Too bad Preacherman was the first to go down. Dude sounded awesome.

edited 17th Sep '14 8:59:55 AM by CL

I saw Don't Panic recently. It wasn't bad, and it was even mildly suspenseful at times. Not very gory or inventive with its kills, but they were done well(having Screaming Mad George do mostly stabbings seems a slight waste of his talents though).

I also bought Bloody Moon, which is pretty goddamn amazing. It delivers on inanity and gore not unlike Pieces, though it's a bit better/less stupid than that film. The power saw scene did not disappoint. None of the death scenes did, really. And the scene where the killer delivers a girl death threats through her head phones is pretty remarkable.

That poor snake, though. Yeesh.

Here's a question to wrap up this page: Do you guys think slasher films work better when they have a serious or comedic tone?

Serious. When I think comedic, I think 'self-aware slasher movies', and those movies tend to piss me off.