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non-halloween/friday1 3th slashers with high-ish production values??

posted 17 years ago by pallisrs
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hi,

i just bought this as "rosemary's killer" (uncut) on DVD here in the UK, i had never heard of it but i thought i'd give it a try, thinking it would be a crappy cheesy slasher (which i love btw)

anyways, i loved it! in fact, considering it was fairly well-acted, tense and with great gore, i can't believe i had never heard of it!

so....can anyone point me in the right direction, i'm after slasher films from the early 80s which were fairly well acted (im not after oscar material but you know what i mean!), tense and/or gory and looks good on DVD, region 1 or 2.

I've got so much horrendous cheesy stuff on vhs/dvd which i like as a laugh, (the mutilator/fall break, aerobicide, pieces, crap like that), but only because i love "bad movies" (including non-horror stuff)

so anymore films that you would put in the same category as the films listed below? ones that aren't just guilty pleasures, and are good movies in their own right.......???

Black Christmas
Halloweens 1+2 + Fridays 1+2+4
Rosemary's Killer/The Prowler
The Burning
My Bloody Valentine

let me know and i'll check em out!

thanks.
Rob

[–] LeadAnchor 7 years ago

I'm very late to the party and i apologise if these have been suggested already, but the original Maniac is fantastic, with gore effects by Tom Savini (who did the effects for The Prowler too, as well as many other fantastic horror movies. If you want to see great gore effects, follow and watch the movies Savini has played a part in) and the original The Hitcher is one of my favourite slasher movies as well, pretty underrated in my opinion.

"Where'd you get that beauty scar tough guy? Eatin' pineapple?" - Scarface TV Edit

[–] [deleted] a year ago

When I think 'slasher with high production values', The Funhouse (1981) is the first to come to mind.