Slasher Films

I realize this is a month old post, but it does mention it. http://nightmareonelmstreet.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Freddy_vs._Jason_vs._Ash_characters http://nightmareonelmstreet.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Freddy_vs._Jason_vs._Ash:_The_Nightmare_Warriors_characters

Most of these characters have it listed in their appearances. Even Freddy himself has three paragraphs about the first one in his character history. Maybe all that stuff was taken down temporarily when you looked.

edited 25th Sep '14 6:27:14 PM by Karmameter

I prefer serious, but I'm not adverse to comedic slashers... if they're done well, or are at least so bad they're good. On that note, most horror-comedies are terrible, due to being lazy and too juvenile (not that juvenile humor can't work).

Yeah, more often than not the self-awareness thing can cause a film to come off as annoyingly smug and condescending.

edited 26th Sep '14 6:12:13 AM by CL

Kickstarter for Ice Cream Man 2.

I can't really say I have a preference, partially because I haven't seen too many openly comedic slasher movies, and partially because I find the serious ones to have enough Narm that they come across as kind of comedic anyway.

Case in point, although it's probably not a slasher film in the traditional sense; Henry Portrait Of A Serial Killer. The title character as portrayed by Michael Rooker is far more compelling than obnoxiously hammy characters like Hannibal Lecter, but the odd manner of speaking that Rooker affects for the role ("If you want a beer, Otis, go ahead and get wun") combined with the occasionally overbearing score (EPIC WALKING TO THE CONVENIENCE STORE FOR CIGARETTES ACTION!) can make for some funny moments.

I watched Salvage night before last. It's not your prototypical slasher movie — only three people die in the course of the film and it's more about the seeming time loop — but the villain can seemingly teleport to right behind the protagonist to attack her, so I think it's a close enough fit.

Watched Hatchet a few nights before. All I can say is that if this is a throwback to old-style horror, maybe it's not such a bad thing that it went away.

It's unfortunate that most filmmakers seem to assume that "old school" just means being as stupidly over-the-top as possible.

So, anybody else seen that video on what it would be like if more slasher characters were played by men?

Nope.

Anyone else bothering with Wrong Turn 6? I just picked it up with Seed 2, Rampage 2 and The Purge 2.

Halloween. Yay.

Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, the duo behind Inside and whatnot, are apparently going to be the directors of the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Hopefully it won't be an another retread of the first film.

It sounds like something completely different from the typical "young adults go to house and meet Leatherface" story. Which is refreshing.

And the award for most Unexpected Remake goes to...

Well, if they keep the lo-fi aesthetic from previous Violent Shit movies, it will be easy and quick to make.

Supposedly with music from Claudio Simonetti... I wonder if he's still got it?

While I don't remember watching any slasher movies, the tropes and cliches have been mocked and spoofed so many times that the parodies have become cliches themselves.

I enjoy the films in the sense I enjoy B-Movies. For example. Metamorphosis: The Alien Factor. The various "The Blob" movies are also a bit entertaining.

To be more accurate I enjoy the sub-genre's.

edited 15th Nov '14 3:17:19 PM by TuefelHundenIV

I've always hated the term B-Movie, for some unfathomable reason.

So I was gonna come and post about Nicholson's crowdfunding campaign to finish Gutterballs 2 but clearly, SOMEONE was way ahead of me on that one.

I guess instead, I'll talk about what I watched. Again. Like, See No Evil 2, which was shockingly dull. Uninventive kills. Uninvolving characters. I AM DISAPPOINT

I also watched Splatter University. A bad, dumb, crappy movie, but for some reason, I couldn't help but enjoy it. Lotsa blood and some unintentional hilarity.

Also, GirlHouse has piqued my interest, as it involves some of the people behind Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer, which I enjoyed.

:D

Also, Rampage 3.

At least it was better than "companion" film Leprechaun: Origins.

I last watched Blood Valley: Seed's Revenge (bleh) and just bought Gore, Quebec◊ and two XXXers called Off the Air◊ and Prey for the Dying◊ (latter DVD cover is slightly NSFW).

I've also ordered the new slasher novel Under the Blade◊, and am looking into getting another blasphemously awesome one called I Know What You Did Last Supper◊

Pieces was just as fun as I remembered it to be. I still think that the killer's all-black coat and hat look is really cool, especially compared to the overabundance of dirty backwoods getups.

That book sounds...awesome.

Too bad Juan Piquer Simon never made his proposed sequel, which sounded positively batshit. I may be a bit fuzzy from on the details, but IIRC, it would have featured the killer's creation as the new villain, rampaging through the wilderness while a forest ranger tried to put a stop to the violence.

I watched Pieces a few years back as part of a horror movie anthology set mainly memorable for the intro and outro bits involving topless women in demon outfits.

My wife and I recently watched Return to Horror High, which I had fond memories of seeing bits and pieces of back in high school. It was as schlocky and amusing as I remembered. Definitely an influence on the genre of horror comedy.

inorite?

Gore, Quebec was mediocre and generic, and felt longer than its 79 minute runtime. Next up will probably be Cross Bearer◊, which I once heard had a scene in which a man is killed by having his face repeatedly slammed into a pile of cocaine, or something to that effect.

The Hills Run Red was good for its killer, who wasn't a completely typical backwoods psycho, but the twist was filled with Fridge Logic. The bad guys' plan to film their snufftastic horror film has been two decades in the making, and it falls apart immediately when they get back together? And how they managed to film anything worth showing without a proper crew, and so on.

A great take on slasher films. Tucker and Dale vs Evil