Death of the Slasher Film

I watched it last night as it was about to expire on Netflix. One of the most dissapointing 80s slashers/comedies ive seen. It had a odd poor pacing and some of the most bizarre dialogue between the characters. It couldnt build up any tension in its supposed to be scary scenes till about the last 30 minutes to the film and was predictable from about 30 minutes into the movie.

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Doubling its budget isn't spectacular, but that's pretty solid

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Plenty of other lame copycat movies that watered down the slasher genre. To say this movie killed it is ridiculous. The genre had its time from 78-86 I'd say. This movie has a love/hate with horror fans. I do agree with a previous poster about it's odd pacing but the cast and infintile jokes more than make up for it. I've always dug it.

What a crock. This is a good film, with a fun group of characters. It offers a refreshing twist to the slasher film sub-genre. If anything destroyed the slasher film it was overpopulation.


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The whole death of the slasher film is absurd. By 1986 the slasher film was already in a decline despite how many were still being produced. Really at this point it was mainly the Friday the 13th films and first two Elm St. films that were successful in regards to slashers. The others were mainly successful on video/cable.

After April Fool's Day, Friday the 13th 6-7 were successful and even part 8 was moderately successful. Elm St 3-4 were huge hits and despite 5 taking a huge drop from the previous two still turned a strong profit and let's not forget Halloween 4.

I have no idea why people say that about April Fool's Day, but it seems to me it's people that lack any film knowledge but wanna act like they're experts. While I enjoyed Scream, but the audience that only really discovered the genre with Scream thought they were experts agree seeing Scream & Scream 2