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the slasher flicks of the 70's and 80's... and whatever else I can come up with.
Ballroom Marfa presents a free concert by Avey Tare's
Slasher Flicks on May 5, 2014, in Marfa, Texas.
Attentive listeners may detect distinctive signatures of each members» previous affiliations, but
the Slasher Flicks sound is a world unto itself.
Ballroom Marfa Presents Avey Tare's
Slasher Flicks with Party With Death 8 pm May 5, 2014 Ballroom Marfa courtyard, Marfa, Texas Free
Slasher Flicks is comprised of Avey Tare, Angel Deradoorian and Jeremy Hyman, names you may recognize from Animal Collective, Dirty Projectors and Ponytail, respectively.
If you're a fan of
slasher flicks, then Killing Floor 2 is what you should play.
The last horrorfest from the Supermassive studio was a masterful riff on teen
slasher flicks.
We even started seeing
slasher flicks with a PG - 13 rating.
The original movie shot this extra dose of adrenaline into
slasher flicks, bringing a new found interest when most were beginning to think it was a tired genre.
Apparently made in 2011 and only just given a wide release now, You're Next looks like just another one of those home - invasion
slasher flicks.
The general attitude of the film, even as it captures all the classic definitions of retro
slasher flicks, is fixed firmly in the present day.
At one point in time, a spoof of
slasher flicks and teen sex comedies might have seemed fresh and clever.
As played by Rosario Dawson, Tracie Thoms and real stunt driver Zoe Bell, these fearless women go beyond the female empowerment of old
slasher flicks in which a woman is sole survivor.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead becomes a parallel to «the good girl» in
the slasher flicks from the 1980s.
«So he's into low - budget
slasher flicks... with really, really big special - effects budgets,» Ollie (Chris Dinh) glibly says to Blair (Katie Savoy) moments before their sickening realization that they are trapped inside a serial killer's dungeon fitted with Temple of Doom - style moving walls.
A mash - up of high school satires like «Heathers» and vintage
slasher flicks like «Carrie,» «Jennifer's Body» isn't quite the cult classic it could have become, but it has enough going for it to entertain fans of both genres.
Title: ATM Directed By: David Brooks Starring: Brian Geraghty, Josh Peck, Alice Eve
Slasher flicks can...
If you grew up as a horror film fanatic in the 1980s, you may have run through most of the American
slasher flicks and occult thrillers — and then you rented Lucio Fulci's 1980 cult favourite Zombie, which hopefully led you to all sorts of gore - laden apocalyptic mayhem from Italian splatter - slingers like Umberto Lenzi (Nightmare -LRB-...)
There are
the slasher flicks whose only questions «Who dies?»
So we've assembled our take on the 50 best horror films of the 21st century — the zombie - apocalypse tales, things - that - go - bump - in - the - psyche ghost stories, retro -
slasher flicks, neo-giallo nuggets, J - horror, K - horror, French extreme and Hollywood franchise films that have spooked us, shook us and scared us shitless since 2000.
A Norwegian made movie, Dead Snow is a throwback to the elimination
slasher flicks of the»80s with heaping handfuls of cult zombie.
You could still do much worse than this as far as
slasher flicks go, but I would personally get more thrills watching Scream 1 two times than Scream 2 once.
Gratuitous sex and nudity was a mainstay in the 80s
slasher flicks.
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.
Those last two elements carry the most weight in
our slasher flicks, establishing death as punishment for bad behaviour and cluelessness rather than a side effect of «chance and necessity.»
Cutting Class like a few horror films of the 80's relies heavily on an overused idea, and by the films release in 1989,
The slasher flicks were getting weaker.
The prisoners are his six sons, the Angulo brothers, who endured a childhood leavened only by each other's company and the thousands of films — from classics to
slasher flicks — they were permitted to watch and recreate.
Cabin in the Woods is a uniquely crafted dark horror comedy that is writer Josh Whedon's homage to classic
slasher flicks.
Last year, Disney embarked on a bloody restructuring resembling a low - budget
slasher flick; Miramax lost most of its staff in October, and Battsek announced his departure at the end of that month.
She suspended a kid in 2003 for writing a paper on
the slasher flick «Halloween.»
Some are being called «impossible,» while others sound like they belong in the storyline of the next low budget
slasher flick.
practically lives in her Minkpink «
Slasher Flick» shredded denim shorts, wearing them shopping, to events and (of course!)
Sure, tension and chase scenes are awesome, but at times this puppy read a bit more like an old fashioned tragedy than
slasher flick.
So from the cover, it looks to be a scary
slasher flick.
Your album, Trapped on Tape, is out now and sounds like it could have been pulled directly from an 80's
slasher flick.
Just when you think it's your typical
slasher flick, it takes a complete left turn down «What the hell?»
An intentionally standard
slasher flick with the very expected archetypes, and a sub-story about making a movie for a very
On the strength of their 2003
slasher flick, High Tension, Craven hired director - writer Alexandre Aja and writer Grégory Levasseur, and the result is one of the most exhilarating, intense, and engrossing Hollywood shockers ever made.
«Red Sparrow» has the nudity and sex of an erotic thriller and the stomach - churning gore of
a slasher flick, but it also strives to be more than a genre movie.
A D - grade
slasher flick that has delusions of comedy and mystery, of interest only to those who lust after Brad Pitt and would love to check out a performance the actor would probably rather forget.
Gleeful in a vapid soap opera - meets - gratuitous
slasher flick way, favouring superficial thrills and gags over inventiveness, subversion or depth.
A sturdy
slasher flick that laces its splattery slayings with some anti-establishment undertones.
Well - crafted, eerie, thinking man's
slasher flick, about a dysfunctional devout Catholic family under attack from an unknown assailant.
Synopsis: While recording sound effects for
a slasher flick, Jack Terri (John Travolta) stumbles upon a real - life horror: a car careening off a bridge and in... [MORE]
Fans of the classic fantasy /
slasher flick Nigthbreed will be thrilled to know that a new TV series is on its way to our screens in the near future.
So while there isn't anything new to write home about (or discuss in a movie review), Friday the 13th is still a fairly entertaining
slasher flick.
Speaking optimistically, the movie looks to be a careful post-modern dissection of
a slasher flick, complete with unseen powers stage - managing horror movie tropes from behind the scenes.
Scream Factory is currently working on their Collector's Edition release of director Scott Glosserman's 2006
slasher flick Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, which is due to hit Blu - Ray on March 27, 2018!
The plot of this low budget 1989
slasher flick is... well... it's Halloween with a few absurd additions.
Tarantino's film, «Death Proof,» is a rip - roaring
slasher flick where the killer pursues his victims with a car rather than a knife, while Rodriguez's film «Planet Terror» shows us a view of the world in the midst of a zombie outbreak Read the rest of this entry»