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.
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
Just finished watching The Babysitter: Killer Queen, and wow... the first one was a bit silly and self-aware, but this one is insane.
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
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
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.
The legend has returned.Well, they're not all good, but, aside from Jason X, others that I'm aware of are:
- Almost Human (2014; aliens)
- Biotherapy (1986; aliens)
- Camp Daze/Camp Slaughter (2005: time travel)
- Cheerleader Massacre 2 (2011; robots)
- The Child's Play remake (robots)
- Chopping Mall (robots)
- Exterminator City (2005; robots)
- Future Kill (1985; post-apocalyptic)
- Happy Death Day and Happy Death Day 2U (time travel)
- The space segments of Hellraiser: Bloodline
- Hollow Man and Hollow Man II (mad science)
- Leprechaun 4: In Space (space)
- Nightbeast (1982; aliens)
- Silent Rage (mad science)
- Spaceship Terror (2011; space)
- Supernova (space)
- The last third or so of Sunshine (space)
- Time Walker (aliens)
- Welcome to Willits (2016; aliens)
- Without Warning (aliens)

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