Will there ever be another truly iconic slasher villain?

[Joe Wong]

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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!

 

[Organic Damage]

Does the thing from It Follows qualify? I could see that having some legs.

I think the fact that it doesn't just have one iconic appearance would hurt its chances.

There's definitely room for a new slasher villain to make a name but I think it'll be difficult to pull off. The movie would have to be both smart and a box office success, which is probably a tall order for a slasher horror movie in this day and age.

 

[sickc0d3r]

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.

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.

 

[Philo-Publius]

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.

^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 The slasher genre is outdated.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).

 

[Jimmy Jazz]

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.

 

[saugeye killah]

The Strangers could sorta be classified as a slasher. Not exactly, but same sport maybe. I'm excited for that sequel.

 

[fortheo]

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.

 

[Don Hagliatelli]

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.

Yeah, I like them both.

Curse is a back to basics slasher. I think it's pretty solid and has some nice back story flashbacks involving Chucky when he was still alive.

Cult was really surprising. I really liked it, although it does go a bit crazy towards the end. I'm half tempted to say they jumped the shark but I don't think that's fair.

If you're gonna watch them, I'd at least rewatch the original and Bride of Chucky first to get the background.

 

[Satsui Ryu]

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...

Wow I thought I was the only one who ever saw this movie. Can't believe it actually got a blu-ray release.

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.

I watched a lot of the old slasher movies on regular TV about 25 years ago so a lot of the good stuff was cut out. I've been checking them out for Halloween on demand and it kills me I missed the skinny dipping scene in FTT 4. Apparently FTT 5 cranks the sleaziness to 11, but I'm not willing to pay to watch it

And I don't think slashers will ever come back. The torture porn movies from a few years back can be seen as a modernization of the genre, but none of them are on the level of the original 70's and 80's movies.

 

[sleepwalk]

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.

Michael Meyers suffered from the hiccup of Halloween III. The Nightmare and Friday the 13th were uninterrupted, although I always daw them as being more about gore than story (originals excepted, of course.)

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

I came to post that Jigsaw is the closest we have at the present time although not really a "slasher," per se.

A lot of people might disagree, but Elijah Wood's character in Maniac was quite intense and to me stands out in this regard.

Didn't even click on it (I may have seen this, actually) but I immediately thought of his character, Kevin, in Sin City.

 

[BEER]

Everyone having smart phones and guns now sort of killed the genre

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.

 

[RollSonnenRoll]

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.

 

[BEER]

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.

My friends on the trip hit a few spots where they lost data connection (I never did, bless Verizon's outrageous coverage area), but they never lost cell service.

 

[Guestx]

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.

 

[TheRuthlessOne]

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.

There was a story on 20/20

There was a girl who got stranded in the desert cause he car ran out of gas

So yeah it is pretty common

 

[TheRuthlessOne]

It was in Arizona, Took 5 days for somebody to find her

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/den...derness-denton-woman-hikes-11-miles-call-help

 

[the ambush]

IMO Mick the maniac Australian mass murderer had the potential to make it big. He has been featured in two full length movies. Iconic not so much yet iconic is a term really open to interpretation. Ghostface for example is not a true icon or legend like the others. He was a product of a very good movie.

Spoiler: Wolf Creek

 

[ufcfan4]

Gore stuff just looks stupid in CGI.

Practical effects and horror go hand in hand. Think of An American Werewolf in London, The Fly, etc.

 

[ufcfan4]

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 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.

 

[Guestx]

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.

Exactly what I said.

We live in the cell phone age. Does that mean no one gets killed in real life? Obviously not.