You're right, it was a big time for the slasher genre. What I liked the most about HBTM, was that it kept you guessing. They give you plenty of suspicion to pass around to everyone, until (you think) you see Ginny making the kills, and even then she gives you enough to doubt it. The end was corny - almost soap opera like, and then presumably, Ginny took the fall anyway. Corny or not, it led to a very tragic ending.
Some slashers - like this one, Funhouse, etc - kept you guessing. While others (Halloween, sequels to F13, etc) you knew who the killer was, you were just there to watch it all play out. And it was a good bloody fun time either way.
I'm a fan of early 80s slashers, like you. While never really a fan of the F13 franchise, I loved Halloween 1 and 2, but lost interest in anything after that. Terror Train is a definite favorite, along with My Bloody Valentine (original only), Prom Night (also only the original), Funhouse, (though Funhouse kinda went "creature-feature" in the end). Early 80s slashers were good fun suspense, and some really good jumps. To the credit of modern horror though, you gotta admit, the gore factor has been upped over the past 20 years or so. Something 80s American horror shied away from.
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sslssg (27744)
6 years ago
I do enjoy gore, and maybe this is just because I was younger then, but early 80's slasher flicks scared me much more than the jump scare, gory films now. It's like today we have the pg 13 horror, or all out "torture porn". Maybe I'm being unfair, but that's how I feel.
A movie, that despite the cheese factor, can still give me the creeps is Slumber Party Massacre (1982). I'm not saying that it's a great movie, but there was just something about it.
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