"Have A Nice Day" (Psycho sequel from 1981 starring Michael Nesmith)

Well, that was great , christomacin!

And here I had put on this page an "OT" post about the recent passing of Michael Nesmith and it turns out he was "on topic" all along.

I'm reminded that, as swanstep noted, there was a FLOOD of slasher movies in the 80's in the wake of Halloween, but as this Nesmith video shows, Psycho held onto its own honors -- and its rather unique "1960 black and white" look versus that ton of cheapjack, teen-based, color slashers of the 80's.

Also, as christomacin notes "from the side," one reason that Psycho II was greenlit by Universal in 1982 was that they realized they had a GREAT "slasher movie franchise" sitting right there on the shelf. Psycho II looks and plays more like Friday the 13th than it does the original Psycho.

Movie history is sometimes inexact, but in a "broad sense," we can note that the slasher genre receded for awhile in the 60s' and 70s in favor of stories of the supernatural(which Psycho definitely WASN'T) . and the Satanic: Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, The Omen. Various cheapo knockoffs OF those films, including Blaxploitation versions. And even the "sorry, nice try but no" opening narration on the Jaws trailer:

"Its as if God put the Devil on earth and gave him...jaws!" Ha. Everybody got into the act.

I think Black Christmas(1974) was a slasher of sorts, but, indeed, it took Halloween in 1978 to bring the genre back full force -- a psycho with a big knife. Just like the old days. No Satan involved. (Though I like to note that Michael Myers STRANGLED a few victims, too.)

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