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OHH shhh, the most are in my neck of the woods there in PA. It's mostly gitterdun red necks here though. That doesn't add up, cint!
OHH shhh, the most are in my neck of the woods there in PA. It's mostly gitterdun red necks here though. That doesn't add up, cint!
I think the fact that it doesn't just have one iconic appearance would hurt its chances.Does the thing from It Follows qualify? I could see that having some legs.
As an unashamed Friday The 13th superfan, I have mixed feelings about FTT 6. On one hand, it is a really fun movie. Jason's resurrection scene is like, ok, fuckers, shit just got real. But on the other hand I was so disappointed because, after Tommy was set up in FTT 4 and 5 as being a crazy badass, they turned him into a regular punk with some minor, mass murderer related ptsd issues. Such a let down. I wish they continued the narrative because a completely unhinged Tommy versus Jason would have been cool. Still, great slasher flick if you can look past that.BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Did they really do a James Bond-style Jason intro?! That's is fucking HILARIOUS!
I'll have to sit down and watch this one day. Never did see Part 6.
^I agree with this. The slasher genre is outdated. I will still go see a Freddy, Jason, or Halloween movie though for nostalgia (if it looks decent).No but mainly because the slasher genre has long been dead.
The time we got our iconic slashers were the times the slasher genre was hot.
Ghostface brought it back for a brief period only because Scream was something we never saw before.
There have been some good "Horror/Slasher" in the past decade to 2 decades though but since the genre is not as popular as it once was they don't get talked about much as the days the Icons ruled the horror genre. The Creeper from Jeepers Creepers is a good "Horror Icon" if you don't consider him a slasher and Victor Crowley is probably the best recent one.
hacket was the shit bro~! they have a new one coming out.No but mainly because the slasher genre has long been dead.
The time we got our iconic slashers were the times the slasher genre was hot.
Ghostface brought it back for a brief period only because Scream was something we never saw before.
There have been some good "Horror/Slasher" in the past decade to 2 decades though but since the genre is not as popular as it once was they don't get talked about much as the days the Icons ruled the horror genre. The Creeper from Jeepers Creepers is a good "Horror Icon" if you don't consider him a slasher and Victor Crowley is probably the best recent one.
Speaking of slashers, has any one seen the two latest Child's play films: curse of chucky, and the cult of chucky? They surprisingly have good reviews. I remember being a kid and watching the first two child's play films. Good times.
Something about My Bloody Valentine didn't do it for me. Can't remember Sleepaway Camp. I keep coming back to Leatherface in my mind but ultimately that dude was a lackey. These weren't too bad, but...
Oh dude...you have to watch Part 6. It's my favorite installment with Part 4 as a very close second because it's the complete opposite of 6.
I love 6 because it's having fun while still having Jason be a complete scary badass. Part 4 is just fucking nasty. Jason is imo the most intimidating in that one. Just a sleazy, despicable film and I love it.
Was Michael always as popular?
As far as I remember late 80s Freddy and Jason were way above Michael, especially after H3 and MM being inactve for most of the 80s and the franchise never embracing gore.
It seems to me like Micheal actually beneffited from the post Scream revival with H20 and later the wave of slashers in the 2000s with the Zombie remakes. Same for Leatherface who entered more mainstream recognition with the 3 remakes in the 2000s.
I feel the next slasher to become a Icon could be a old character to get revisited by new films instead of a completly new one.
Well I think being violent is ok
Jigsaw is a pretty big horror icon himself and the Saw movies have historically done really well
Lets see how this new one does
A lot of people might disagree, but Elijah Wood's character in Maniac was quite intense and to me stands out in this regard.
Everyone having smart phones and guns now sort of killed the genre
I just was in a wedding recently and we had a cabin in the middle of the woods in Ranger fucking Georgia, a town of literally a couple hundred people. Was never out of service the whole time.This. Slashers would have to be set in the early/mid 90s to hold any realism.
The whole "shit my cell phone has no service in the woods at the cabin 10 miles from a fully functional town" trope is dumb as fuck.
I just drove down to Charlotte and through miles of absolute nothing, I still had perfect cell coverage.
I just was in a wedding recently and we had a cabin in the middle of the woods in Ranger fucking Georgia, a town of literally a couple hundred people. Was never out of service the whole time.
This. Slashers would have to be set in the early/mid 90s to hold any realism.
The whole "shit my cell phone has no service in the woods at the cabin 10 miles from a fully functional town" trope is dumb as fuck.
I just drove down to Charlotte and through miles of absolute nothing, I still had perfect cell coverage.
I just was in a wedding recently and we had a cabin in the middle of the woods in Ranger fucking Georgia, a town of literally a couple hundred people. Was never out of service the whole time.
It's not as unrealistic as you two are acting like it is.
There are plenty of pockets here in Utah where I'll lose cell coverage when driving through them.
Gore stuff just looks stupid in CGI.
This. Slashers would have to be set in the early/mid 90s to hold any realism.
The whole "shit my cell phone has no service in the woods at the cabin 10 miles from a fully functional town" trope is dumb as fuck.
I just drove down to Charlotte and through miles of absolute nothing, I still had perfect cell coverage.
I don’t know though- why does cell phones = no slasher films. What good is calling someone if an inexorable (and in the case of Jason and MM, 6’7) maniac is yards away from you. It’s not like iPhones have a flash bang/hand grenade feature to them.
I think of it like people saying Seinfeld wouldn’t work in the cell phone age. It wouldn’t? It’s called Curb Your Enthusiasm.