Your Best Slasher films?

[jenna26]

Originally Posted by swiss tony

he has you on a technicality there ferret. dunno if this counts but, 90% of argento's body of work. here's a good question, what's the difference between slasher and giallo? that might make a good thread.

Okay, let's see........a giallo film is usually more of a mystery film than a slasher film. it contains the violence, blood, and nudity of a slasher film but it is very much whodunit? There is almost always the focus on the gloved hand, holding a weapon, and you are supposed to try to fit the pieces together; slasher films you either know who the murderer is, or it doesn't seem to matter who the murderer is.......;) I didn't think to add any here when I was listing favorite slasher films, but I do think they aren't all that different as far as content. People do get slashed (to borrow The Mothman's line).....:p

[swiss tony]

so giallo is more columbo and slasher is just 'heres the bad guy, watch him kill these people'

[paws the great]

Originally Posted by jenna26

Okay, let's see........a giallo film is usually more of a mystery film than a slasher film. it contains the violence, blood, and nudity of a slasher film but it is very much whodunit? .....:p

Friday the 13th
Terror Train
Friday the 13th part 5
Prom Night
My Bloody Valentine


All pretty good slasher/mystery flicks!

[paws the great]

Originally Posted by swiss tony

so giallo is more columbo and slasher is just 'heres the bad guy, watch him kill these people'

No,a lot of slasher films are thrillers too!

[jenna26]

Originally Posted by paws the great

Friday the 13th
Terror Train
Friday the 13th part 5
Prom Night
My Bloody Valentine


All pretty good slasher/mystery flicks!

Prom Night is dreadfully boring....or is that just me? ;)
Oh well, my point was, not that slashers never have an element of mystery, just that a slasher film doesn't always have that element, unlike a giallo film (at least in the ones I have seen). In slasher films, it seems like any mystery involved is usually secondary to the death scenes, the violence. The question for me is often "who is going to die next?" with most slasher films, rather than "who is behind the mask?".

[paws the great]

Originally Posted by jenna26

Prom Night is dreadfully boring....or is that just me? ;)".

It's just you!:)



Have you seen these giallo?

Torso - Sergio Martino

Terror at the Opera & Sleepless- Dairo Argento

The New York Ripper- Lucio Fulci

Death Walks on High Heels & Death Walks at Midnight- Luciano Ercoli

I would recommend these films to any slasher fan!

[The Mothman]

would you guys consider Maniac a slasher or an exploitation movie?

[paws the great]

Originally Posted by The Mothman

would you guys consider Maniac a slasher or an exploitation movie?

Both.




It's also a grindhouse classic.:)

[The Mothman]

whatever it is, its awesome.

[illdojo]

Originally Posted by paws the great

Friday the 13th part 5

It's weird that Jason isn't even the killer in part 5. :rolleyes:
I still like it though. :D