Horror movies that took the genre in a new direction.
Final Destination (2000)
shareThe original Halloween (1978) is easily a top 5 most influential horror.
shareI think it was only a new direction because it added good acting. The plot was not original.
shareOh really? What movie before it had the same plot?
shareThere were a few slashers before Halloween (1978). What Carpenter did was to distill them to find the perfect formula, including every trope, from the screen queen to the unstoppable slow killer, and becoming the non-written template which was repeated endlessly.
It was not the plot that was original, it was about the formula, the exact blend of tropes and elements.
No, some people now call some prior movies slashers, but there was no slasher genre and tropes prior to Halloween. Slashers were primarily inspired by the low-budget success of F13 and notoriety of Halloween. The question was what movie had the same plot, in response to tcrum, who also couldn't come up with an answer.
sharesome people now call some prior movies slashers, but there was no slasher genre and tropes prior to Halloween.
Yeah, obviously, since it's the logical thing to do. There was no 'slasher' label when Halloween was released neither. Genres are not defined and labelled until you have a fair amount of movies to put in that basket, which would take a few years more.
And once you define the genre, you put all the prior movies under that label too. To do otherwise would be stupid. Westerns can only be considered westerns if they were released after the label 'western' was coined? WTF?
The question was what movie had the same plot
More or less every slasher has the same plot: you introduce a group of people and their little stories, and then somebody kills them one by one. That can be applied to Black Xmas, Halloween or any other slasher movie. Of course, the exact details change. As I said, Halloween was influential not because the plot was original (the slasher plot template already existed), but because it created a good number of tropes that became part of the genre. share
Action, mystery, and horror (generally) also have that plot, that's not the slasher genre. Slasher is a specific genre that involves one or more psychopaths hunting and killing, primarily with edged or puncturing weapons (the hint is in the name). It has nothing to do with misogyny or teen sex. Knives Out is not a slasher movie. Psycho is not a slasher movie. It's really not hard to understand, but it seems that as the years roll by, more and more horror fans think slasher is a just generic murder movie. But you still have not answered the question of what movie had the same plot.
shareI think there were movies you could consider slashers before Halloween, but the plot of Halloween sort of became a template for a lot of movies that would follow. It's not the first slasher, but probably the most influential.
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