Does anybody think it is,
if so,
it was before all those others that claimed to be the first
(eg Texas Chainsaw, Black Xmas, Halloween)
What do u think????????
Absolutely not!!! It's way too slow-moving and plodding to be a slasher movie.
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Yeah...because there's never been a slow-moving and plodding slasher movie.
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Nope not the first. I haven't seen this movie, so I do not know if it is a 'Slasher' movie... but for the origins of that genre look to 'Peeping Tom' and especially 'Psycho' - the latter which follows all the genre rules before the term was even coined. Many early 'Slasher' movies used 'Psycho' as an inspiration.
Fast moving direction is NOT one of the genre keys to a movie being a 'Slasher' movie - the movie needn't have much gore either. So you can have slow 'plodding' ones.
This one really isn't a slasher film at all. It's more like a psychological horror. It is slow moving and they do keep you guessing. But I wouldn't really call it a slasher. Alot of older 70's movies are like this.
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I think these kinds of films were generated by the likes Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange". A film that Kubrick himself had to have removed from the theaters because of all the copycat crimes it birthed. The terrifying home invasion. The lock your doors and windows, it won't matter, they get in anyway and they will torture you and they will kill you and they will laugh while they invade your refrigerator while watching you die in your own blood without blinking an eye and no amount of pleading can stop them because they have no souls, no pity whatsoever" Slasher films are Disney films compared to the nightmares stuff like this leave in your head.
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Nope. It's a thriller.
"I'm packing an ounce of killer shrooms...And there be monsters in need of pummelin'!!!"
The only slashing i saw was when Uncle's car got keyed.
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All the murders actually occur off-screen.
I think a real weakness of the film is we never really discover a realistic motive for the murders. It's as if they occurred for the fun of it, on a bit of a whim.
[spoiler]This movie doesn't have any on screen kills so it's hardly a slasher[/spoiler]
shareI feel slashers generate spectacle and tension from the killings themselves, which we don't often see in this. A true slasher would have explicitly shown the psycho killing Farrow's family. Here, it's much more about the suspense and sense of dread.
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