Dog Soldiers...NOT a horror film..cheap slasher
 

Remember, lesson 1...difference between horror and slasher.

Damn right cause you will get slapped down like a two dollar hooker in the street...

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Bend over and brace your self

Also don't forget....

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yeah but a two dollar hooker would at least have the decency to gain 500 posts before trying to tell us what is what, and also she would suck my dick while doing it

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I see I am in the midst of true grit and wit here! "Fuck off" and "get lost" well said. Why try being, "all fucking adult and stuff" (sorry, gotta speak the native tounge i guess) and see what i am saying.....I guess ignorance really IS bliss

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And this is coming from the "all knowing" n00b with 9 post..

Congrats chief you deserve a fucking oscar...;)

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not one person on this thread even said "fuck off" or "Get lost" to you, so just so you don't feal like a complete moron I will do u a favor FUCK OFF, GET LOST

The least you could do is explain why you think Dog Soldiers is a slasher and not a horror movie as you say. Or is that above you?

THERE WE GO!
 

Good stuff, let's chat it up. First, slasher is just as it decribes. Not much story line, mainly over the top gore which just visually shocks rather than get in you head. Horror, it much different. A great horror film can be made with not a drop of blood. Acutally the best ones are.

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Slasher film
The slasher film is a sub-genre of the horror film, also referred to as a splatter film. Typically, a masked, psychotic person stalks and graphically kills teenagers who are away from adult supervision.

The two prototypical examples of the genre were John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) and Sean Cunningham's Friday the 13th (1980), both of which spawned numerous sequels and even more imitators. (Although Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) could be seen as the true origin of the form.) Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) also generated an enduring series. The simple plots, minimal special effects and potent combination of sex and violence made it an easy choice for low-budget filmmaking in the 1980s.

Carol J. Clover, in her book Men, Women and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film, identified what she called the Final Girl trope, the heroic young woman who ultimately survives and defeats the Killer (at least until the sequel). The Final Girl almost invariably has an androgynous name (e.g. Teddy, Billie, Georgie, Sydney) and does not partake of the sex and drugs the other teenagers do. Often, she has shared history with the Killer.

The slasher genre broke into the mainstream in the 1990s, being extensively parodied in Wes Craven's Scream trilogy and Keenen Ivory Wayans' Scary Movie series, but with also many "straight" imitators.

TrueFan
IMO this is what your basically saying.

Horror = Good Horror Movie
Slasher = Bad Horror Movie

Slasher is a sub-genre of horror, they are not two seperate categories.

Horror film

A horror film is a film dominated by elements of horror. This film genre incorporates a number of sub-genres and repeated themes, such as slasher themes, vampire themes, zombie themes, demonic possession and Satanism, alien mind control, evil children, cannibalism, werewolves, animals attacking humans, haunted houses, etc. The horror film genre is often associated with low budgets and exploitation, but major studios and well-respected directors have made intermittent forays into the genre. Some horror films exhibit a substantial amount of cross-over with other genres, particularly science fiction.

Certain stories and themes have proven popular and have inspired many sequels, remakes, and copycats. See Frankenstein, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, werewolves, and zombies.

because it wasn't scary?

Living/Dead
wufong
So you have to be scared of watching a movie for it to be considered horror?

pretty much yes. not saying it was a bad movie or anything. i liked it. but for a true horror ( for me) is one where it freaks/ makes me jump etc. dogs soldiers didnt do it to me. but like isaid it was a good movie.

If that was the case, Id have seen 3 horror movies in my life!

horror/comedy yes with an unoriginal plot lol and poor effects

Exactly.

dissagree with that part.

disagree with that spelling :D

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horror is horror its not any different and i have seen no horror movies that have scared me so basiclly there are no horror movies that scare me so byebye

It just did not achieve anything new or compelling.

that sounds like virtually every horror film coming out of hollywood to me.

These days "Original, new or compelling" is virtually impossible.

I have descibed Dog Soldiers to people as "Aliens with werewolves, set in Scotland". That is basically it. it is simple, and because of it, it is beautiful.

The fact that someone decided to take an ancient "horror" like werewolves and modernise them in this way IS original, the same way Reign Of Fire turned the old Dragon legends into a modern threat. Now, i can see people turning this pseudo-genre into a shit-museum the way they did with "giant killer animals" with Anaconda, curse of the komodo, python, etc..

but it is still new enough to be somewhat "original"

Plus, i LOVE listening to foul-mouthed brits and scots going off. They invented the language, so they use it ina way most of us americans couldnt dream....


"I would rather slog it out with these 'grunts' than take orders from a toffee nosed twat like you, Ryan.." Classic line :)

Few things......

1) Dog Soldiers is a fuckin good movie

2) Werewolves usually means a horror movie

3) You can mix genres for example Dog soldiers is definately a comedy horror.

But more imprtantly........

4) The most annoying thing Americans do is confuse the words English and British.

BRITAIN IS NOT A COUNTRY - it is made up of a number of different countries. Please learn the difference.

Scottish people ARE ALSO BRITISH

I'm sure some americans/canadians would be offended if people assumed they were from canada/america.

Rant over......bye.

P x

Most americans grow up in a shell. all most know about the rest of the world is from movies and tv, neither of which are particularly reliable. Never hurts to correct us :)

I actually lived in europe for 9 years, and no one ever bothered to explain that difference to me.

I always thought it was more horror/action. the comedy was just the result of good writing, rather than it actually being a "comedy"

I loved Dog Soliders! I thought the characters and dialogue were brilliant and the special effects stood up well in my opinion.

i liked the dog

Exactly.

the dog was awesome!

its an amzing movie

hey preach i need a lil clarification please. what is the difference between britain and whales? is whales a geographic location or is it a term used for all of britain?

Whales are mammals.:D

My PERSONAL (not imposing on anyone) definition of a slasher is a film with a single protagonist (generally a fella with a weapon/tool of some kind :o ) and little or no nods to the supernatural (aside from resilience to injury).

Two of the 3 biggest slashers are supernatural:
Jason Voorhees
Freddy Kreuger

That aside, Dog Soldiers could not be farther from slasher...

whoooooo michael myers is different




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