I have this idea, that it's a slasher set in the UK in the 1980's, but instead of the characters being people, they're different fantasy races; such as elves, dwarves, etc. The killer would be an Orc.
For me, in no particular order.
Pieces: such a fun, ridiculous and gorey as hell slasher film.
The Mutilator: Bad acting, bad characters, but the kills in this film are great. The fishing gaff through the vagina and out the stomach is such a brutal kill.
The Burning: Such a great slasher, some excellent effects by the great Tom Savini, and a film that definitely deserved sequels that never got one.
Blood Rage: Another excellent cheesefest with great kills and gore, with some decent acting from the guy who plays the twins.
Intruder: This film is one of my favorite slashers ever. The Raimi brothers, Renee Estevez, the killers motive for killing, and the kills. Oh man, the kills. The trash compactor and bandsaw kills are some of the best slasher kills ever imo. Just brutal stuff.
What are your top 5 80s slashers?
Iβm not looking for a movie like Halloween, Slumber Party Massacre, and or other typical slashers. Iβm more looking more for movies like Creep, The House that Jack Built, Angst, and Silence of the Lambs. Basically, horror films with serial killers that arenβt slasher films.
Hello! A few friends of mine and I want to make a horror movie, one is great with makeup, so we immediately went to the idea of making a slasher movie so we can show off her ability to do gore. Im tasked with making a script and I have some ideas on what to make it about but I want to hear from you, what would make a slasher more interesting then say a Friday the 13th? (not that I don't love Fridays, they're great fun.)
Okay, I knew when I watched a scene from this movie on late-night television 10 years ago and forgot to write down the title the next day, that this was going to happen.
It's a classic (or at least a cult) American movie from the 70's or 80's. The scene in question took place next to a boat, where there were young people worried about something bizarre that had just happened to one of them. I don't remember if it was a murder precisely, it didn't look like a horror movie, it looked more like an art film from that era, something along the lines of "The Last Picture Show." I'm sure the film was in color and had a very artistic and precise cinematography work. What I remember more precisely is that there was an actor in the cast (now renowned and famous) playing one of his first movie roles. I also don't remember who it was.
If there is such a thing as the art slasher genre, this movie would fit in perfectly. But for that, we have to rely on my imagination from 10 years ago, in a scene of less than 1 minute that I saw. I mean, it could be something completely different.
EDIT: Forget the boat for a bit. It's definitely the only scene that takes place in it, and it could be a small boat, like a speedboat. In my memory, the teenagers are close, not necessarily on the boat the entire movie.
It has well-known actors, U of T landmarks, and references the city with a map and shout-out to Scarborough. Although it's set in the US.
When slasher films in the 80's were made the cast mostly consisted of nobodies (ie: Final Exam) and the only familiar cast member was the lead (ie: Terror Train, Prom Night)
and then in the 90's the slashers had cast members that were when the cast were already semi or fully established in Hollywood (ie: Scream, Candyman, I Know What You Did Last Summer etc.)
How do you prefer your slasher?
So Iβve been finding it hard to find good horror movies about teenagers that arenβt slasher films. Iβve pretty much watched majority of the teen slasher films. While I do love the teen films genre, Iβm kinda getting tired of the same old slasher horror plot. I would really appreciate some suggestions. Thank you!
I read horror fiction for a living. I can count on one hand books I have read where the killer is a woman or a couple of women. I'm hoping Reddit can really pull through for me here. I'm looking for slasher movie films (I'm a horror movie noob) or books where the killer/slasher is a woman. No true crime please! I know plenty of those. Focus is on the horror sub-genre of slashers. Thanks in advance!
I really don't understand why people call the Hellraiser movie slashers. They aren't slashers at all. A slasher movie for the most part has a human serial killer that uses blunt and sharp melee weapons (Michael Myers uses a kitchen knife, Jason uses pretty much everything with a Machete being his signature weapon and Freddy Krueger uses a glove with razor blades).
Pinhead on the other hand uses dark magic with hooked chains tearing his victims apart just as Lisa does with Tommy Wiseau in The Room lol. But that doesn't make Pinhead a slasher villain nor does the fact that the Hellraiser franhise originated from the 80's like most slashers. Sure Freddy uses dark magic aswell but I feel the more he does the less Nightmare on Elm Street actually felt like a slasher. Just look at NOES 5 and 6.
I think Hellraiser is more like Evil Dead. Simply a splatter movie with lots of gore and demons. At least that can be said about the first 4 films while all movies after Bloodline can be considered mystery thrillers with some splatter and torture porn elements. And while mentioning torture porns, even there Hellraiser seems to fit far more in line with movies like Saw and Hostel rather than Halloween, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Child's Play. John Kramer and the villains from Hostel are also serial killers yet no one calls them slasher villains simply because they aren't and the same goes for Pinhead.
I don't remember much detail but one scene is engraved in my mind. The killer opens the male victims chest with a surgical tool that spreads the ribcage and I think he pulls out the beating heart. I'm not sure if I'm mixing slasher films here but if it helps I believe the setting was a mental hospital.
Yeah, sorry but a dude with a knife is not really scary to me. Especially after living in Baltimore, surviving several random beatings, the drive-bys and attempted muggings made me jaded to them, I found they can be beaten easily, ran away from, find help, you can deal with them.
But something unearthly? That scares me, how do you deal with something that society denies existing with a smug attitude, you can go for help, there is no "rules", you are at the entity's mercy.
And before you go, "but that ain't real, this ain't real, slashers are scary because it can happen." Yeah no, that's Hollywood bullshit.
Actually I wonder if people say that because deep down, it scares people too. Think about it, ghosts exist, which means there is some kind of afterlife, and then one has to question what kind of afterlife it is, and start wondering if you are going to heaven, hell or limbo, then you start thinking that you have consequences, and that scares so many that life is not meaningless chaos with no punishment of any kind but there is something. That is scarier, along with our perception is shaky, that you "Gasp!" might have to try to make the world a better place.
TL;DR Supernatural fiction makes people realize we have no fucking clue about the world while slashers is a lovely security blanket of "reality".
Out of all the different types of horror films I've seen over the years, nothing quite gets me going like a good old-fashioned slasher film. Some would give me chills, while others would have me busting a gut laughing in delight. Some of the most well known got me into the sub-genre featuring slasher villains like Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Chucky, and the chainsaw wielding nightmare Leatherface. Then, as time has gone by, I've come to love films from outside these characters and their respective franchises. The following list is a list of my favorite slasher films from outside the big name franchises, but what are yours (they can be from the big name franchises and the lesser known gems)?
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Sleepaway Camp (1983)
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Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)
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Black Christmas (1974)
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Dr. Giggles (1992)
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Blood Harvest (1987)
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My Bloody Valentine (1981)
You don't often see many GOOD horror films on Netflix anymore because they're usually low-budget, unenventive, copycat schlock, but this thoroughly impressed me.
I think it impressed me more because I expected yet another Wrong Turn film but past the first 45 minutes this was NOTHING like the other films.
It still had a few dodgy moments here and there but the storyline was thrilling, the gore was great and set design was interesting. It had a fantastic ending as well!
This is easily a 7.5/10 for me.
Hey everyone!
Firstly, apologies if this should be posted elsewhere but I'd love the opinion of horror film lovers as oppose to filmmakers or other screenwriters.
I have been working on a screenplay for years and am getting to a point where I'm really happy with the story. I have a couple of upcoming meeting with producers in regards to funding but am seeking a bit of assistance for the logline.
Here's what I have so far.
Genre: horror/monster/mystery
Influences: The thing, Jaws, Alien, The Descent
Logline: Still recovering from recent tragedy, the small town of Lorena is once again thrown into chaos when a storm threatens to unearth buried secrets and an unearthly evil lurking within the lighting has come to collect.
For some context, the film takes place in 87' in a rural, sleepy town. The main protagonist is a local nurse and single mother grieving the loss of her husband. Other mains include a sheriff harboring secrets from the past that may be the key to the main characters closure as well as a babysitter who may know more than she lets on.
One evening a huge storm rolls in with a humanoid creature who can only be seen in flashes of lightning. Here to harvest body parts (a pattern that becomes obvious later in the story)
Any help would be hugely appreciated as I'm currently working on a pitch deck and have Posters, Creature Art (created by the fantastic Michael Broom: Jennifer's body, The thing 2011, the mist) and Character design all ready to go but I want that perfect logline/selling point to round it out.
I'm not very tech savvy but I'm happy to share the poster here if it'll help, influenced by Fright Night, my favorite horror movie poster.
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I forget the details but from what I remember: group of teens get attached , I want to say the killer lined a few of them Up and snapped the neck of one of the teens. I think at the end a girl and a chubby loner/loser/nerd survive it. I think at the complete end of the film, sometime after the attack, the boy knocks on the girls door and it insinuates that they became close after the events they survivedβ¦think it came on USA UP! All night
I love and adore 1980s slashers. Even if some are a little rip offy. I'm not a fan of excessive gore, but I for sure love violent slasher films. I don't know that many hidden gems though.
The killer was a man with a moustache. He had brown or orange hair, a white shirt and a blue-pink-sprinkled jacket. He had a watch on his left or right arm.
He was in his house when suddenly some of his workmates arrived to celebrate a surprise party. The moustache man didnt like them apparently but he agreed to celebrate with them. The workmates were: a man with brown hair, a blonde woman, a woman with dark hair and a young trainee. (There could also have been another one but I only recall these four.)
They put out a cake, party whistles and party hats. The cake was cut with a big knife. Some time later when the moustache man was cleaning the knife with a kitchen towel he was looking grim at his guests.
After midnight one of the guests (the man) said something that provoked the moustache man. He became very angry and killed one of the guests with the cake knife. The others were shocked and tried to run away from him. The moustache man chased them in his house and killed them one after another. The first victim was the woman with dark hair, who was trying to hide behind a door in a room. The trainee and the man hid in some storeroom. The trainee had a party whistle and blew it unintentionally. When they were found and the trainee was killed he made a whistling sound instead of a scream. While searching for other survivors the slasher took a party whistle and blew it once as a taunt. After killing the man who provoked him the moustache man shook the hand he was the knife holding in, as if he had to recover from the strong blow.
One person found a bubble blower on some box and blew it in the killers eyes. After being shot with the soap bubbles the moustache man became very angry and demolished some interior in search of the victims.
The blonde woman ran upstairs but she was found. When the man was about to kill her he was suddently shot by some policeman who appeared outside and saw the killer at the window.
The movie was in color.
The killer was shown very often and you basically followed him on his killing spree. He used mostly his knife, but the movie was not very gory.
The slasher looked a bit like this (man in the middle of the picture): Hostile Takeover (1988) - ALL HORROR
Most noticeable about the killer was his blue-pink-sprinkled jacket/hawaiian shirt.
The house looked normal, it was not rundown or in a bad state. The interior was pretty normal, too.
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Tommy Jarvis would certainly qualify as an "Ahab" to Jason and you also have Lefty in Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, but who else? Jim Oglive in The Stepfather could qualify as well, if you consider The Stepfather to be a slasher (and I think that is a fair classification, probably). Is there anyone beyond that? I'd say that Nancy in Dream Warriors 3 is arguably an Ahab in that film, even if she began as a "survivor girl" in the first film.
I don't know. Just something I was musing on. Can anyone think of any other slasher "Ahab" characters?
Many slasher enthusiasts consider this film a practical "how-to" on making an effective slasher movie. Several of the kill scenes became famous when they were replicated in other later slasher movies.
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Anyone got any recommendations? Yeah Iβve seen slasher and horror films but maybe something in the crime genre
Examples: Scarface, Reservoir Dogs, Goodfellas, Casino, maybe pulp fiction?
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One of the most common criticisms of slasher films is that the characters foolishly split up and find themselves facing the killer alone. Most slashers, including Michael, are successful because they attack their victims in isolation.
Ultimately the characters in Halloween Kills do what few slasher casts ever think to do: instead of splitting up, they form an overwhelming mob and stick together. They do it within hours of Michael's escape from the fire, and they manage to deliver Michael a more effective beating than he has taken in any sequel/timeline, aside from being blown up or electrocuted (both of which were possible only due to dumb luck of the characters being cornered next to explosive gases or live wires).
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Tommy jumps into action the moment he learns Michael has escaped. He has no reason to believe Michael is magically invincible, but he's smart enough to know that Michael is a serious threat and shouldn't be confronted alone. He immediately gathers a crew and starts formulating plans for how to use Michael's tactics against him.
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(The hospital mob scene is a bit silly with all the "evil dies tonight!" crap, but I don't find it unbelievable that a crowd of traumatized people on high alert for an asylum escapee who killed their loved ones would turn their wrath on... an asylum escapee, especially when everybody else is pointing at and shouting "is that Michael? I think that's Michael!").
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Karen--who trained her whole childhood to lure and trap Michael--gets Michael to chase her into the center of an armed mob organized by Tommy--who has fantasized since his childhood about killing Michael.
BUT WHY DID THE MOB ATTACK MICHAEL ONE AT A TIME, LIKE IDIOTS?
They didn't. Let's recap:
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In the first 10 seconds of the mob beating, Michael takes at least 7 powerful blows and slashes to the head and body from people on every side armed with crowbars, bats, and other heavy objects. He reels and spins from each attack and lands only one blow himself, slashing the forearm of a gunman and causing the shot to hit another crowd member.
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Over the next 4 seconds the gunman, despite his injured wrist, shoots Michael in the chest 5 times, knocking him down and causing him to drop his knife.
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When Michael tries to get back up, he takes at least 13 full over-the-head swings in 15 seconds from people on all sides wielding heavy wooden planks, bats, etc., until Tommy's blow to the lower spine causes a
The killer was a man with a moustache. He had brown or orange hair, a white shirt and a blue-pink-sprinkled jacket. He had a watch on his left or right arm.
He was in his house when suddenly some of his workmates arrived to celebrate a surprise party. The moustache man didnt like them apparently but he agreed to celebrate with them. The workmates were: a man with brown hair, a blonde woman, a woman with dark hair and a young trainee. (There could also have been another one but I only recall these four.)
They put out a cake, party whistles and party hats. The cake was cut with a big knife. Some time later when the moustache man was cleaning the knife with a kitchen towel he was looking grim at his guests.
After midnight one of the guests (the man) said something that provoked the moustache man. He became very angry and killed one of the guests with the cake knife. The others were shocked and tried to run away from him. The moustache man chased them in his house and killed them one after another. The first victim was the woman with dark hair, who was trying to hide behind a door in a room. The trainee and the man hid in some storeroom. The trainee had a party whistle and blew it unintentionally. When they were found and the trainee was killed he made a whistling sound instead of a scream. While searching for other survivors the slasher took a party whistle and blew it once as a taunt. After killing the man who provoked him the moustache man shook the hand he was the knife holding in, as if he had to recover from the strong blow.
One person found a bubble blower on some box and blew it in the killers eyes. After being shot with the soap bubbles the moustache man became very angry and demolished some interior in search of the victims.
The blonde woman ran upstairs but she was found. When the man was about to kill her he was suddently shot by some policeman who appeared outside and saw the killer at the window.
The movie was in color.
The killer was shown very often and you basically followed him on his killing spree. He used mostly his knife, but the movie was not very gory.
The slasher looked a bit like this (man in the middle of the picture): Hostile Takeover (1988) - ALL HORROR
Most noticeable about the killer was his blue-pink-sprinkled jacket/hawaiian shirt.
The house looked normal, it was not rundown or in a bad state. The interior was pretty normal, too.
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