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Weirdguy149 Former King from Lumiose City Since: Jul, 2014 Relationship Status: I'd jump in front of a train for ya!
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#801: Jul 17th 2020 at 4:46:51 PM

Double post because the Childs Play TV show's coming out in 2021 on both the SyFy and USA networks.

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#802: Jul 19th 2020 at 11:13:30 AM

Cool! The first slasher series actually centered on its iconic villain since Freddy's Nightmares(I almost said Damien, but a slasher The Omen is not).

Weirdguy149 Former King from Lumiose City Since: Jul, 2014 Relationship Status: I'd jump in front of a train for ya!
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#803: Jul 25th 2020 at 2:16:59 PM

Art the Clown is back for some more fun.

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Prowler I'm here for our date, Rose! Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#804: Jul 25th 2020 at 2:25:23 PM

First one was awful.

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#805: Jul 25th 2020 at 2:30:22 PM

The Child's Play trailer is not available.

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FuzzyBoots from Outlying borough of Pittsburgh (there's a lot of Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
#806: Jul 25th 2020 at 2:32:22 PM

[up][up] It wasn't a bad movie... just one that I felt horrible for watching.

Prowler I'm here for our date, Rose! Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#807: Jul 25th 2020 at 2:42:42 PM

To each his own.

For me, the only things that were worthwhile were the villain and the gory F/X, both of which were frequently great. That said, I'm long past being the age where those things are enough.

Edited by Prowler on Jul 25th 2020 at 3:43:29 AM

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#808: Jul 25th 2020 at 10:02:42 PM

Cool! The first slasher series actually centered on its iconic villain since Freddy's Nightmares

There's the Wolf Creek show.

And I guess that season of the Scream show where they were actually used the Ghostface name, mask, and voice.

Prowler I'm here for our date, Rose! Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#809: Aug 1st 2020 at 12:40:02 PM

Right. I probably forgot about Wolf Creek because it's on streaming-only where I live, and Scream's third season because, you know, everyone hated it.

FuzzyBoots from Outlying borough of Pittsburgh (there's a lot of Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
#810: Aug 26th 2020 at 5:59:49 PM

So... just watched CarousHell on account of that it's apparently done by a friend of a friend, who was advertising the Kickstarter for the sequel. I won't lie... it's not a very good movie. But it is currently free on Tubi, so that's something. And it's certainly a unique premise, killer carousel unicorns...

Edited by FuzzyBoots on Aug 26th 2020 at 9:00:05 AM

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#811: Aug 28th 2020 at 11:45:36 AM

I couldn't stand The Babysitter, but I know some people liked it, so for them:

Weirdguy149 Former King from Lumiose City Since: Jul, 2014 Relationship Status: I'd jump in front of a train for ya!
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#812: Aug 28th 2020 at 3:29:16 PM

This feels like a worse version of American Horror Story: 1984.

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TargetmasterJoe from Velocitron Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: I like big bots and I can not lie
#813: Sep 10th 2020 at 8:20:12 AM

Question: who asked for someone to turn Freaky Friday into a slasher film?

Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Sep 10th 2020 at 11:21:00 AM

Weirdguy149 Former King from Lumiose City Since: Jul, 2014 Relationship Status: I'd jump in front of a train for ya!
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#814: Sep 10th 2020 at 10:16:33 AM

I feel like this is this director's schtick, giving classic comedies the horror treatment. That's a fun gimmick.

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#815: Sep 10th 2020 at 12:19:44 PM

Just finished watching The Babysitter: Killer Queen, and wow... the first one was a bit silly and self-aware, but this one is insane.

JoLuRo075 Since: Jan, 2019
#816: Sep 10th 2020 at 8:16:36 PM

Speaking of Freaky, I can't help but wonder if the fact that the protagonist is Hollywood Homelly will be played straight or will it be used parodically?

Considering the tone that seems to be handled in the trailer, it could be either one.

nnokwoodeye1 Since: May, 2012
#817: Sep 11th 2020 at 8:02:43 AM

What I like about these kind of formula twists is that they deconstruct exactly what make horror movies scary

In a regular horror film the characters goes through their regular lives, then the villain shows up and start killing them.

On the surface, the fear factor comes from the villain's savagery, but as the Actionized Sequel trope shows, if the same villain encounter characters who are familiar with it, a lot of the fear is gone, even if the villain is just as dangerous.

The thing that really make a villain scary is its ability to force its own genere on other people. Those films explore this by making the villain target people who are just as helpless as ordinary horror characters, but also add a secondary genere shift that leaves the villain just as clueless as the characters on the rules of their universe, greatly reducing its ability to control events.

Edited by nnokwoodeye1 on Sep 11th 2020 at 10:17:01 AM

JoLuRo075 Since: Jan, 2019
#818: Sep 12th 2020 at 8:44:13 AM

The Slashers that annoy me are the ones that involve revenge.

That is, initially they kill the people who hurt them (and related), but over time they suffer a huge Motive Decay and only dedicate themselves to killing random people.

Any sense of revenge as a motivator is lost if the villain only engages in killing random people.

Edited by JoLuRo075 on Sep 12th 2020 at 8:46:07 AM

Weirdguy149 Former King from Lumiose City Since: Jul, 2014 Relationship Status: I'd jump in front of a train for ya!
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#819: Sep 12th 2020 at 10:06:27 AM

The only revenge slasher I can think of is I Spit on Your Grave, and even then the protagonist only goes after the ones who harmed her.

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RavenWilder Since: Apr, 2009
#820: Sep 12th 2020 at 10:44:06 AM

Though there are slashers whose revenge is against a broader concept, like an entire town, or anyone who celebrates a given holiday, or so forth.

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#821: Sep 12th 2020 at 10:46:14 AM

Are their any sci fi style slashers. I know theirs jason X but I meant you know a film that's good.

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Weirdguy149 Former King from Lumiose City Since: Jul, 2014 Relationship Status: I'd jump in front of a train for ya!
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#822: Sep 12th 2020 at 10:48:36 AM

Alien toes the line between creature feature and slasher. There's also Killer Klowns from Outer Space if you prefer more goofy shit.

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#823: Sep 12th 2020 at 11:37:53 AM

Without Warning is pretty much a woods slasher where the killer and his weapons happen to be aliens.

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#824: Sep 12th 2020 at 3:49:40 PM

I mean, The Terminator has often been described as a slasher in sci-fi drag.

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#825: Sep 12th 2020 at 7:56:03 PM

Are their any sci fi style slashers. I know theirs jason X but I meant you know a film that's good.

Well, they're not all good, but, aside from Jason X, others that I'm aware of are:


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