|
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
#11
04-02-2006, 07:59 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Unfortunately, the slasher is probably the one sub-genre of horror most likely to fall prey to derivative plots and stupid self-awareness. I really do like giallo films, and some of the early American slashers, but there's far more bad slasher films than good ones, in my opinion.
__________________
And no matter what I say I cannot resist or betray it. No one could do so because there is no one here. There is only this body, this shadow, this darkness. 
|
|
#12
04-02-2006, 09:59 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Scream and Halloween are IMO the best slashers.
__________________
 Quote:
None of this is real
|
|
#13
04-02-2006, 10:41 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
I wouldnt go so far as to say that I hate slashers perse, but Im not really much of a fan. Sure, many of them are somewhat entertaining, but that can only last for so long. Im not a Friday the 13th fan in the leat, Ive seen the first 2 and I dont really plan on watching the rest...the first one was stupid, and the second was worse. Though I cant say it was a bad film, Halloween is very overrated in my opinion. So what if it was what made the genre popular/one of the first? Sure, it had some creepy moments, such as the bedroom scene, and Loomis was a great character, but otherwise it was just your typical slasher flick that's been cloned 50 million times. Though many will say it's not a slasher, I did really like the first Nightmare on Elm Street. I havent bothered with the sequels yet, but the first one had such an original, scary plot plus it introduced one of the all-time great horror icons while he was still in his glory...I loved it.
__________________
"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness." - Friedrich Nietzsche
|
|
#14
04-02-2006, 10:44 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
I think NOES is more just plain horror, than slasher IMO.
__________________
Quote:
None of this is real
|
|
#15
04-02-2006, 11:01 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Quote:
__________________
"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness." - Friedrich Nietzsche
|
|
#16
04-02-2006, 11:09 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
It was sorta 50/50 I guess.. Great gore for 1984
__________________
Quote:
None of this is real
|
|
#17
04-02-2006, 01:00 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
The Prowler, The Burning (raft sequence is a pure classic), The New York Ripper and Nightmares in a Damaged Brain are all top horror movies.
But there is and always has been a lot of dross in the slasher category, by nature of repetition and contempt - so many different kinds of bogeymen can only creep around so many different settings (and the victims are of course always irrelevant).
__________________
|
|
#18
04-02-2006, 01:28 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Quote:
Cheers guys this is helping me a lot I'm chugging away at this article and this has jogged my memory on a couple of thing. Keep it comming :)
|
|
#19
04-02-2006, 01:35 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
It's been released in the UK several times now, but each one cut by the BBFC (even the old pre-VRA).
My full version is Dutch, and has to be said is one of the first truly ugly films I had ever seen. From the grim scene in the peep show, through the pick-in-the-back to the disturbing (and oft repeated) dream sequence, NDB is true horror and if there ever was a "video nasty"... this is it.
__________________
|
|
#20
04-02-2006, 02:33 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Damn that sounds really cool. I dare you to make me a copy :)
|
 |
|
|
