sure, sure. tell me your reasons you think those movies are not played out like slasher films.
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The Slasher Film Formula is:
• Teens in Peril
• Suspense
• POV
• Gore (some dont have much, but its implied)
• Sex/Nudity (not in all, but some times, its implied)
• Going Places you shouldn't
• Isolated someplace (not all do this, but some do)
• Final Girl
• Masked Killer
• Twist Ending (again, some do this, but not all)
• Promiscuous Women
• Whodunit
• Investigations
• Helpless Victims
• Unstoppable Killer (used in the Halloween & Friday the 13th series)
• The killer almost always uses unconventional weapons, such as blades, chainsaws, cleavers, and blunt objects.
• Special Effects (not used in Halloween, Psycho, Black Chirstmas, TCM.)
• Cheesy Acting (sometimes)
• Electronic Music Score (is some cases, others use a string score)
• Set on a specific date (such as, Halloween, Chirstmas, Birthday, Prom night, Valentines day, April Fool's day, Mother's day, graduation day ,hell Night. some are not, such as, The Burning, the Prowler, Maniac, TCM, Psycho, Terror Train, Night Warning, House on Sorority row, ect.)
• Revenge (most slasher films do this. such as: Friday the 13th, My Bloody Valentine, Terror Train, Prom NIght)
• Humor
• Claustrophobic settings, or areas.
• Surprise, shock, or jump moments.
• School, or campus setting (used in Slaghter High, Hell Night, House on Sorority Row, Splatter Universtiy, Graduation Day, Black Christmas, Prom Night, The Prowler, Final Exam, The Dorm That Dripped Blood, Night School, Massacre at Central High, Happy Birthday to Me, The Initiation,
• Camp or Forest Setting (used in: Madman, Just Before Dawn, The Burning, Friday the 13th, Night Warning, Twitch of the Death Nerve, Last House on the Left, The Prey, Sleepaway Camp)
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do you know what TCM does, read on:
The film most often credited with establishing the "staples" of the slasher genre, including young people poking around in places where they don't belong (and harm consequently befalling them), the lone female survivor (or Final Girl), the lumbering masked killer who never speaks, etc.
Bay of Blood (Twitch of the Death Nerve) does this:
It truly borrows from (or aids giving birth to) the slasher genre. Halloween, Friday the 13th, Friday the 13th Part II, and others that followed stole an amount of kills for the formula.
Black Christmas does:
One of the first films to combine the elements of a murder mystery with the slasher genre. Notable for use of long tracking shots from the point of view of the film's killer, an element that would later be cemented by Halloween as a staple of the genre.
so FortySecondStreetFreak, have you learned anything yet? i hope you now know more about the slasher genre.
if not, i advise you to read this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slasher_film
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macysboy78
16 years ago
It should be noted that MANY of the "staples" of slasher movies you've listed actually could be applied to any number of movies in almost any genre (i.e. "Set on a specific date.... some are not.").
Aside from that, many people here seem to not be able to grasp the idea that just because something heavily influened movies of a certain genre or subgenre, it does NOT mean that it too is a part of that genre. Conversely, other people don't seem to be able to accept that a movie can also fall into more that one genre or subgenre.
Now, as far as "slasher" movies go, I would think the main criteria to qualify is the presence of a slasher, which some commenters here seem to be unaware is a slang term for a serial killer. While there certainly can be more than one killer, much as can be the case in real life, I would say that although heavily influential on many of the horror and slasher films that followed, TCM is really more of a "survival horror" or "torture porn" movie than it is itself a slasher.
"Twitch Of The Death Nerve", by not really featuring any specific villain to be afraid of, also does not seem to really qualify. It IS however VERY influential on the films that followed, and is also basically the original "body count" movie.
"Black Christmas" IS definitely a slasher movie, however i'm not sure why you feel the need to point that out in your post, as if you had actually read all the other posts here, at no point did anyone seriously dispute that.
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skeletonman13
16 years ago
on some levels, i agree with you. i guess TOTDN is not exactly a slashers but it was indeed VERY infulential. and once more BC is yes a slasher films. but wiht set on a specific date thing, i can disagree. but then again you are also right. so, im half 'n half.
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