Slashers

SLASHERS – He Knows You’re Alone

Published on: 10th January, 2010

Whilst most slashers that were released in the years following Friday the 13th would try to emulate its graphic violence and summer setting, those that were produced before its success would be closer in tone to Halloween: urban locations, autumn weather and minimal bloodshed. The endless list of low budget thrillers that were released [...]

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SLASHERS – Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning

Published on: 9th October, 2009

One common criticism that is thrown at the slasher genre is its repetitive and predictable formula. Yet whilst the likes of Siskel & Ebert had have dragged its name through the dirt, the fans of Friday the 13th have always been more than satisfied. But when the producers dared to take the franchise [...]

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SLASHERS – The Forest

Published on: 2nd October, 2009

Ever since the release of Deliverance in the early 1970s, filmmakers had become obsessed with the concept of ordinary city folk lost in the wilderness and hunted down by whatever strange beast or man roams the area. Both The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Hills Have Eyes followed this structure, showing what happens when [...]

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SLASHERS – Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives

Published on: 28th September, 2009

The sleazy direction that the Friday the 13th franchise had taken with A New Beginning had been of great concern to the executives at Paramount. Having brought the series to a satisfactory conclusion with The Final Chapter the previous year, the box office takings had been enough to convince the studio that Jason Voorhees [...]

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SLASHERS – Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

Published on: 25th September, 2009

It had been seven years since Michael Myers had made an appearance when the fourth Halloween 4 movie rolled into production. The original creators, John Carpenter and Debra Hill, had been eager to steer the series in a new direction and so Halloween 3, released in the fall of 1982, had jettisoned the Myers [...]

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SLASHERS – Slumber Party Massacre

Published on: 17th September, 2009

The earliest offerings of the slasher cycle were predominantly by males and for young male audiences, and so the more low budget efforts would be filled with dubious acting and unnecessary T&A. And so, when Slumber Party Massacre was released in 1982, directed by a woman and written by a noted feminist, both fans [...]

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SLASHERS – Sorority House Massacre II

Published on: 16th September, 2009

Before the days of the internet, young boys would have to rely on movies for that rare dose of breasts. Thus, filmmakers would often fill their low budget offerings with copious amounts of T&A to cater to their male-orientated audience. A perfect example of this is Sorority House Massacre II, an in-name only [...]

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SLASHERS – Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III

Published on: 13th September, 2009

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre had first been released in 1974 and had been met with a mixed response from critics, cinemagoers and censors alike. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times had stated that ‘I can’t imagine why anyone would want to make a movie like this, and yet it’s well-made, well-acted, and all [...]

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SLASHERS – Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter

Published on: 13th September, 2009

When Friday the 13th Part 3 was released in 3D on August 13 1982, earning an impressive $9,406,067 on its opening weekend in the US, there was little doubt that another sequel would soon follow. The third movie had introduced the world to Jason Voorhees with his new trademark hockey mask and had marked [...]

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SLASHERS – Just Before Dawn

Published on: 6th September, 2009

Most slasher films were shot extremely cheaply by inexperienced and often talentless filmmakers, desperate to jump onto the Halloween or Friday the 13th bandwagon and score their success. Between 1980 and 1982, drive-in audiences were subjected to such low budget efforts as Graduation Day, Final Exam, Sorority House Massacre and The Dorm That Dripped [...]

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