Who else loves cheesy 80s slasher movies?
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buzz21
Medicated
"Student Bodies" is a classic! I remember watching that a few times back when I was a teenager, and I've caught it a few times on cable the last couple of months and I still laugh at it. Can't get enough of "Horse Head Bookends" LOL.
Oh yeah - how about "click.....did you hang up? no, I just said click". Totally cheesy, but stupid-funny all the way!
Oh yeah - how about "click.....did you hang up? no, I just said click". Totally cheesy, but stupid-funny all the way!
Myke Havoc
Corpse W/Out Soul
I'm a pretty huge slasher fan.
Student Bodies is quite entertaining and way ahead of its time.
The genre has those immovable mountains (Halloween, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Child's Play etc.) which are all great in their own right. Smaller films I really dig are The Sleepaway Camp series, Prom Night, the original My Bloody Valentine, Silent Night Deadly Night, or something like Night of the Demon, which had a slasher-meets-supernatural sort of structure.
My favorite bottom of the barrel slasher was one called "Hide and Go Shriek", which was about a group of high school kids spending a night in a furniture store as they get picked off by a bizarre cross-dresser.
Student Bodies is quite entertaining and way ahead of its time.
The genre has those immovable mountains (Halloween, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Child's Play etc.) which are all great in their own right. Smaller films I really dig are The Sleepaway Camp series, Prom Night, the original My Bloody Valentine, Silent Night Deadly Night, or something like Night of the Demon, which had a slasher-meets-supernatural sort of structure.
My favorite bottom of the barrel slasher was one called "Hide and Go Shriek", which was about a group of high school kids spending a night in a furniture store as they get picked off by a bizarre cross-dresser.
Will Bozarth
Everlasting Godstopper
Slasher, not so much. I like being scared by thinking about things, not by things being shown to me.
Myke Havoc
Corpse W/Out Soul
I will agree that slashers are rarely (if ever) scary. But I find the mystery to the killer's identity is as well as who will be killed next and how to be entertaining. I'm a gore hound, and slashers tended to try to out-do one another, so after a time you got some truly over the top silliness that tickled me pink. There is a mindless satisfaction with a lot of this stuff. It falls into that oxymoronic "safe horror" moniker, or even "melo-horror" at that. Its a severe guilty pleasure. Nt for everyone, for sure. But I'm a nut for that stuff.
My goal is to pen "Columbus Day", a slasher about a history high school teacher who dressed at Christopher Columbus to kill teens by bashing in their heads with his telescope, that don't acknowledge the day as a true holiday.
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Myke Havoc
Corpse W/Out Soul
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WhiteBeastofWotan
Apostitutes!
Krigloch the Furious
Pants full of poo
DarkNoise
Grotesque Butchery Rabbit
Killer Nerd, I believe was one. I may have it confused with something else. But I definitely remember a movie about a nerd getting revenge on the cool kids my killing em off one by one.
I watched Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave the other night on SyFy at like 4 in the morning.
DarkNoise
Grotesque Butchery Rabbit
Ice Spiders, SS Doom Trooper (i think that's the name), and Cyclops are a few of the gems I've seen on SyFy (scifi) lately
Myke Havoc
Corpse W/Out Soul
I'm sorry.
I love the original, but the sequels are pretty hit or miss. I liked part 2 as a kid, but as I got older, I realized how much it missed the mark. 3 was neat but had too many inconsistencies. And Necropolis was pure crap, which was done back to back with RTTG (which I haven't seen).
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