Sentences with phrase «first slasher»

is considered the first slasher film in movie history and introduced the convention of seeing the murder through the killer's point of view.
Peeping Tom is considered the first slasher film in movie history and introduced the convention of seeing the murder through the killer's point of view.
Is there room for score - first slashers who soak up high volumes without the associated efficiency we now demand?

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However, I didn't realize that when I walked to the bathroom for the first time after giving birth, it would look like scenes from a slasher movie.
I remember about the only one — the first one — of the idiosynchratic Larian Entertainment's Divinity RPG - hack -»n' - slashers I've played that it had a Yay, let's shop!
From its first draw of blood onward, it bolts down a foreseeable slasher - movie trajectory, laying on thick the dramatic irony while constantly inventing new reasons to punish its characters for old iniquities.
My first 5 Star Slasher film.
The first hour or so the movie more or less plays out like EVERY slasher movie that came before it.
Pushing the Halloween series further from its roots, Rob Zombie's first sequel to his remake of the popular John Carpenter slasher, is a muddied mix of symbolism and excessive violence.
More telepics followed until Estevez made her first feature - film appearance in the slasher movie Camp Sleepaway II: Unhappy Campers in 1988.
Upon first viewing «Alice Sweet Alice» it comes across like you average Italian Gaillo / Slasher type film but as it slowly unfolds you begin to realize that it's an indictment of how religious fanaticism can effect the minds of those who are not that stable to begin with.
While Freddy's Revenge isn't really in keeping with the first film in the nature of Freddy, whose powers seem to now come with the house, it still has an interesting premise and at least takes a direction that makes it less of a rehash of the first film than other slasher film sequels have been.
Together we walk through the five best slashers in cinematic history, but first we had a couple of arguments to settle.
Ten years ago, we first met the masked maniacs known as Man in the Mask, Dollface and Pin - up Girl, slasher villains...
Ten years ago, we first met the masked maniacs known as Man in the Mask, Dollface and Pin - up Girl, slasher villains who just returned to the big screen in Johannes Roberts» The Strangers: Prey at Night.
And probably Lola is the first female slasher of the history http://www.soloparolesparse.com/2009/11/the-loved-ones-lola-e-la-nuova-slasher-killer-tff27/
Being dull as dishwater is only the first crime of Ulli Lommel's The Boogeyman (1980), a pass by a Fassbinder protégé at American slasher flicks of the late»70s (Halloween especially, but also The Amityville Horror, Carrie, and The Omen) that produces predictably pretentious results without the pang of brilliance accompanying many of the films of Lommel's betters.
This film shows the very first serial killer as a young male full of psychological problems which becomes the exact basis of all the other future slasher characters such as Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, Leather Face, and Freddy Krueger.
The granddaddy of all slasher films and psycho - thrillers will never have the same impact as it did on first release.
Interestingly, Olivia Hussey's casting is a bit of an homage as well, as she appeared in what many consider to be the first of the slasher flick genre that Psycho inspired, Black Christmas.
Slasher: Season One (Blu - ray) Details: 2016, Scream Factory Rated: Not rated The lowdown: The first season of Chiller's first original series centers on Sarah Bennett (Katie McGrath), who returns to her hometown only to find herself involved in a series of copycat killings based on the murder of her parents years earlier.
After his first film, the seminal science fiction comedy Dark Star (1974) and his second, the legendary action thriller Assault On Precinct 13 (1976), Carpenter cemented his place in pop culture with the terrifying Halloween (1978), the film widely credited with bringing the slasher sub-genre into the mainstream.
After viewing the first official trailer for Julien Maury's upcoming slasher prequel Leatherface, I couldn't help but feel a little disappointed with the footage shown
Another interesting fact, Friday the 13th icon Ari Lehan, who played the very first Jason Voorhees in the 1980 slasher film, has been made a partner on the project.
SRS is excited to bring you our first Italian produced horror film import in George Nevada's Freda and Bava inspired gore slasher, «Scarecrowd»!
Yesterday Netflix released a batch of first - look photos of their new series, Maniac, which is a «psychological black comedy» and not another remake of the slasher classic of the same name.
At first blush, Until Dawn looks like a generic horror game, full of tropes stolen from years of slasher films and...
What bothers me most about the film is that it squanders a solid grasp on slasher - movie conventions and, perhaps more importantly, on early - Eighties slasher - movie aesthetics, by which I mean the naturalistic minimalism we encounter in the first three Friday the 13th films.
Slasher is the next big project from the US channel known as Chiller, and it will be their first original series with 2 episodes airing March 4th...
Technically, production on the new Halloween movie has been underway for a couple weeks now, but today is the first official day of shooting on the sequel, which is bringing back Jamie Lee Curtis in her famed role as Laurie Strode, the sister of the seemingly immortal slasher Michael Myers.
We first heard about director Charlie Steeds» Cannibal Farm last year, a new British slasher horror film inspired by The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Year: 2008 Lamer Alternate Title: Bikini Bloodbath 2 Plot: Taking Bikini Bloodbath to the next level — a carwash — this slasher sequel pits sudsy college coeds against the zombie chef killed in the first film.
You may feel cheated that the subtlety and tension of the first two acts culminates in what is effectively a slasher finish with a bit of God delusion added for good measure.
You can now pick up Vinegar Syndrome «s awesome release of director Paul Norman's 1995 horror slasher flick Ice Cream Man on Blu - Ray for the very first...
Coming to UK Blu - Ray UNCUT and UNCENSORED for the very first time, director Dennis Donnelly's Toolbox Murders is a brutal horror slasher that was previously banned.
At first glance, you might think, «typical teen slasher movie» right?
Nearly a decade later, along comes the film's sequel, The Strangers: Prey at Night, a straightforward slasher that retains the sense of competent horror craft, but ditches virtually everything else that made the first film interesting.
At first glance, they appear to be nasty slasher films.
Give first - rate comedian Jordan Peele extremely high marks for being able to enter into the world of making horror films via jump - out - of - your - chair scares and not gross - you - out slasher scenes.
The results - watching party builds with the suspense of a slasher film: Whose insufferable political discourse will be what makes them the first person killed?
Often cited as the first «true» slasher film, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was produced on a low budget by director Tobe Hooper, who was inspired by real - life serial killer Ed Gein to create a chainsaw - wielding mass murderer named Leatherface.
Some slashers, including it's precedent Black Christmas, offer a far more interesting take on virtue and sexuality (though to be fair, the virgin gets it first in this case too).
The first few minutes of a Rainbow Six: Siege match feel more like a slasher film than an all - guns - blazing FPS.
At first it seems we should be following Elena and her desire to escape, but then the film gets distracted by Barry Nyle's personal demons, and by the end we somehow find ourselves in a slasher movie.
Among the authentically detailed and officially licensed masks being released for the first time this year are three new Michael Myers masks (two new versions from Halloween II and a deluxe «version 2» from Halloween H20), the killer clowns Psycho - Head and Schitzo - Head from Rob Zombie's upcoming Halloween slasher 31, Mr. Boogie from Sinister, and various characters from Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, The BFG, Krampus, Ash vs. Evil Dead, Bride of Chucky, and Child's Play 2.
Although John Carpenter's 1978 film, Halloween, is widely called by many people the first of the true modern slasher films, many genre enthusiasts point to this little Canadian shocker, released four years earlier, as the one that set the blueprint.
Tom Hanks, «He Knows You're Alone» In one of the first films to come out of the slasher film golden age, Hanks made his big - screen debut as Elliot, a psychology student who develops a crush on a girl being stalked by a serial killer.
The rest of the series doesn't hold quite the same nostalgia for me (although Halloween II comes close, due to it so often being screened back - to - back with the first movie in the weeks leading up to Halloween), but luckily every single one of the films — minus the anomaly of the third installment — feature Michael Myers, for my money the greatest of all slasher - movie killers.
He's the only thing that keeps the movie afloat, because although the first half builds some nice tension as David infiltrates the Peterson's family dynamic, all of that hard work is wasted in the final act when it devolves into a silly B - movie that favors violence over subtlety, falling victim to the typical slasher film conventions with some incredibly strange and odd - placed moments of humor.
is not a «reboot», but rather will continue the mythology set up by the first two movies (Carpenter's slasher granddaddy and Rick Rosenthal's fun, flawed follow - up):
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