Slasher Films

Back from M3GAN! That was a lot of fun, I'd say more funny than creepy but some decent scares too. And my prediction from earlier was right - M3GAN is definitely of the "can't help but cheer for her a bit" breed of slasher, particularly when she takes an industrial box-cutter blade to two slimy corporate gits who have been making everyone miserable all movie.

There's a heavy social satire element, too - it's all about how technology can't be a substitute for human interaction, and how "internet of things" tech is potentially dangerous in other ways as well.

Edited by HamburgerTime on Jan 6th 2023 at 9:47:06 AM

Interesting fact: M3gan came from the same writer of Malignant, Akela Cooper.

Fingers crossed for M3gan vs Gabriel? Or better yet, a movie where M3gan and Gabriel team up to beat the shit out of Art the Clown(I will diss Art the Clown any chance I get).

The funny thing is, Art isn't even the major threat. He's The Heavy. The Little Pale Girl is the apparent Big Bad and I'm not sure how you even fight her.

Maybe M 3 GAN can build a Proton Pack while Gabriel and Art are duking it out?

I watched M3gan today, and as expected people reacted more to the death of the dog than to the death of any human.

And for some strange reason I loved the scenes where M3gan sang.

I haven't seen it yet. But the trailers were definitely very impressive. And I've loved seeing some of the behind the scenes showing how much of it was practical effects, attained by casting a dancer as the Megan character.

The Winnie the Pooh slasher movie is becoming part of a cinematic universe. You know, assuming the money holds out.

If I had unlimited money I'd make a movie about the crazy gas station guy who tells the kids not to go to the scary place teaming up with the orderly who has to deal with the madman at the asylum and his psychotic professor tormentor to...do something. Fall in love maybe?

And apparently the Hardy Boys (Frank and Joe, not Jeff and Matt) are also Public Domain now, think they'll try to fold them into this thing?

Well, the crazy gas station guy who tells the kids not to go to the scary place falling in love is actually already a movie (if you haven't seen it yet). Pretty good one, too.

Edited by unexplainedEnemy on Feb 13th 2023 at 12:35:24 PM

I'd say they'll turn anything into a horror movie these days, but that isn't exactly new. The Death Bed, the Amityville Lamp, the Fridge...

We musn't forget The Drone or The Killing Tree, both of which are Child's Play riffs with... well... you see those titles, don't you?

(Both are kinda fun even though they're incredibly dopey.)

Just watched No One Lives and I genuinely enjoyed myself. The killer is a little too able to set up elaborate traps, although not to the level of The Collector (2009), but a lot of the rest of it was him improvising on the fly.

Edited by FuzzyBoots on Feb 14th 2023 at 11:29:12 AM

Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey would have been better if they had just put Pooh on cocaine.

On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey?

Edited by Bubblepig on Feb 23rd 2023 at 10:21:41 AM

It's a 1 for me. If you cut the opening and replace Pooh's and Piglet's masks with generic ones, all you get is a shitty slasher, and I dunno, I would legit like to see Pooh utilized well in a horror context.

It's from what I've seen terrible. Like the face mask sometimes is so horribly put on that you can tell a human is under it.

I loved it because it being so bad made it camp as fuck.

Scream VI is the bomb, by the way. The opening scene is a fucking declaration that this movie is not playing by the same rules that the others have been, and I found it a very enjoyable ride right through to the end.

Is it perfect? No. But I honestly don’t have any meaningful notes on how to “fix” its imperfections, and kind of reject the premise that you even need to when a lot of them are born from actual artistic decisions by the creators and not just sloppiness.

Best of the sequels, IMO.

I want some slasher movies set in past eras. Someone make a slasher movie in 18th century New England, or the Old West, or a caveman slasher flick.

Off of the top of my head, a few "period" slasher films are Knife for the Ladies, A Day of Judgment, Hands of the Ripper, B.C. Butcher, Sleepy Hollow, The Phantom of the Opera, Pearl, and the novel I Know What You Did Last Supper (plus some "borderline" ones like The Raven, From Hell, and The Limehouse Golem).

There's also the third installment of Fear Street, set in 1666, but it's the end of a trilogy where the other two installments are in the more contemporary 1994 and 1978 respectively.

Aw man, I thought I was being original with the caveman slasher idea.

Jigsaw is back, and this time, he's killing fake healers:

I saw nearly all of these movies in theaters, despite the wildly variable quality. I'm sure I'll be there for this one, too.

Does anyone have any idea what the timespan of the whole SAW series is? There is no way Jigsaw and friends could've pulled all these tricks in the span of a year.

Also guess those people are all fucked. John isn't even bothering to hide he's the mastermind here, so unless we have the origin for yet another secret apprentice, they'd have to die to keep him from being exposed until SAW II.

Saw's overly confusing timeline is legitimately the main reason to watch nowadays, now that everyone's pretty much numb to the torture and the mystery by now.