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Favorite Slasher Horror Movies
Posted on 7/3/11 at 3:13 pm
Posted on 7/3/11 at 3:13 pm
What are some of your favorite slasher movies, not including the series with endless sequels like Halloween, Friday the 13th, and Nightmare on Elm Street, etc? Here are a few of mine:
1. Black Christmas (1974) (Arguably, the First Slasher)
2. The Burning (1981)
3. The Prowler (1981)
4. My Bloody Valentine (1981)
5. Happy Birthday to Me (1981)
6. Alone in the Dark (1982)
Used to watch slasher movies all the time when I was younger I know some others that are highly regarded by fans of the genre (Madman, Maniac, House on Sorority Row) etc, but I haven't seen some of those. Undoubtedly, the early 80s was the best period for the genre. I represented 1981 pretty good.
1. Black Christmas (1974) (Arguably, the First Slasher)
2. The Burning (1981)
3. The Prowler (1981)
4. My Bloody Valentine (1981)
5. Happy Birthday to Me (1981)
6. Alone in the Dark (1982)
Used to watch slasher movies all the time when I was younger I know some others that are highly regarded by fans of the genre (Madman, Maniac, House on Sorority Row) etc, but I haven't seen some of those. Undoubtedly, the early 80s was the best period for the genre. I represented 1981 pretty good.
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Posted on 7/3/11 at 3:24 pm to spslayto
Original Halloween; I don't count the sequels.
High Tension and Inside are crazy. Check them out if you haven't seen them.
High Tension and Inside are crazy. Check them out if you haven't seen them.
This post was edited on 7/3/11 at 3:30 pm
Posted on 7/3/11 at 3:38 pm to spslayto
Alice Sweat Alice aka Communion(1976) is really good. I watched it not too long ago for the first time.
Scream is my all time favorite slasher film.
Scream is my all time favorite slasher film.
Posted on 7/3/11 at 4:34 pm to spslayto
quote:
1. Black Christmas (1974) (Arguably, the First Slasher)
2. The Burning (1981)
3. The Prowler (1981)
4. My Bloody Valentine (1981)
5. Happy Birthday to Me (1981)
6. Alone in the Dark (1982)
that is a nice list but I don't rate black christmas for anything other than amazing cinematography.
The Burning and The Prowler are definitely top 5, but I would slide Maniac (1980), Sleepaway Camp (1983) for the damn ending, and finally i would rank #1 Halloween (1978).
Posted on 7/3/11 at 5:49 pm to Zamoro10
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High Tension and Inside are crazy. Check them out if you haven't seen them.
Agree... good call... also
Motel Hell & i we can't ignore Friday 13th I, II, and III.
Posted on 7/3/11 at 6:01 pm to spslayto
quote:
1. Black Christmas (1974) (Arguably, the First Slasher)
Wait...what?
How is there even an argument?
You have the mother of them all in Psycho, and if you want to discount it because of the lack of body count and blood, there is Blood Feast, which comes more than 10 years before this.
Posted on 7/3/11 at 7:47 pm to Volvagia
quote:
Wait...what?
How is there even an argument?
You have the mother of them all in Psycho, and if you want to discount it because of the lack of body count and blood, there is Blood Feast, which comes more than 10 years before this.
It's generally accepted that Peeping Tom is the first. Never seen it, but it's the one all horror
"experts" say is the first.
Posted on 7/3/11 at 10:42 pm to Volvagia
quote:
How is there even an argument?
You have the mother of them all in Psycho, and if you want to discount it because of the lack of body count and blood, there is Blood Feast, which comes more than 10 years before this.
As I said there is an "argument." And many make the argument that Black Christmas is the first true slasher. If not the first, it certainly is the inspiration for Carpenter's Halloween, which is responsible for the explosion of slashers in the 80s.
Posted on 7/4/11 at 4:15 pm to magildachunks
quote:
It's generally accepted that Peeping Tom is the first. Never seen it, but it's the one all horror
"experts" say is the first.
This.
and it is actually pretty creepy
Posted on 7/4/11 at 4:19 pm to spslayto
quote:
As I said there is an "argument."
I know.
I was asking how.
It isn't like it *almost* was one of the first in the genre. There were numerous examples released before anything was put on paper for that movie.
Posted on 7/4/11 at 4:30 pm to spslayto
This is one genre of film that I just cannot tolerate, I can count on one hand the number of slasher movies that I've actually been able to sit through and even fewer that I've actually enjoyed. I don't understand how they ever became popular
Posted on 7/4/11 at 4:33 pm to CottonWasKing
Night of the Creeps is pure 80's awesomeness.
Posted on 7/4/11 at 4:38 pm to CottonWasKing
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I don't understand how they ever became popular
they're creepy. a good slasher movie creates a great atmosphere
halloween is an amazing movie. it's tame compared to today's gore-standard, but it's chilling atmosphere is still amazing
Posted on 7/4/11 at 4:49 pm to SlowFlowPro
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halloween
One of the few I actually enjoyed, the sequels however not so much.
As far as mood setting goes I don't think anything is more chilling than a good psychological thriller. Shutter island comes immediately to mind I was never scared but was creeped out and unsettled through the whole movie. The acting is what's going to create a mood for me personally and slasher movies aren't where I go for good acting.
Posted on 7/4/11 at 5:36 pm to CottonWasKing
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I don't think anything is more chilling than a good psychological thriller. Shutter island comes immediately to mind I was never scared but was creeped out and unsettled through the whole movie.
I'm not a big slasher fan but it's different. The isoldated gothic setting of Shutter Island and dark tone had a lot to do with a creepiness the director was trying to manufacture.
Halloween is set in the freakin' burbs with giddy high school chicks. The creepiness is what you're not seeing on camera but you know is probably coming.
This post was edited on 7/4/11 at 5:37 pm
Posted on 7/4/11 at 11:59 pm to Zamoro10
Idk I guess maybe its just not for me, you've got to make me believe to creep me out and very few slashers have done that for me. I don't believe they're scared so I'm not scared.
Posted on 7/5/11 at 12:01 am to CottonWasKing
Rookie of the Year
Posted on 7/5/11 at 12:07 am to spslayto
How can you not put Halloween up there? That movie set the standard for the whole genre.
Posted on 7/5/11 at 8:13 am to NIH
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How can you not put Halloween up there? That movie set the standard for the whole genre.
No doubt. But I wasn't including the series that had numerous sequels. However, Halloween is one of the best--if not the best--slashers of all time. It would make my list no doubt.
If I included the sequels as well, I would also have to include the first Nightmare on Elm Street on the list.
Posted on 7/5/11 at 10:56 am to spslayto
I really enjoy the Halloween movies. I always root for Jason, thinking he'll start seeing the value in someone's life, like right after he met his sister. 
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