this movie was terrible
an uninspired halloween clone to the core.
kevin shields bestowed a glory on this movie by naming his band after it, which is one of the only reasons why i even bothered to watch it.
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oh yeah, it's a clone of another film that was a clone of halloween..... n/m my point that it was a poor film. it was kind of hard to relate to any of the characters unless you were a west virginia hard drinking redneck. i just didn't care and hoped that they would all die.
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My Bloody valentine is one of my favorite 80 slasher and even know I seen the remake because of Jensen Ackles the original one is better and also not to mention Jennfier Dale was pretty damn good in this movie
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Now end of day and Iam the Reaper:Silent hill
Neither of you two have any clue what you are posting about.
Friday the 13th is hardly a clone of Halloween. Some themes are a like, but Friday the 13th as well as Friday the 13th Part 2 are far more inspired by Bay of Blood and The Town That Dreaded Sundown.
Prior to Halloween there was Black Christmas, Silent Night Bloody Night (not to be confused with Silent Night, Deadly Night). There was also The Town That Dreaded Sundown, which isn't really a slasher flick, but features many themes we would later see in the slasher flick.
Let's do it to them before they do it to us.
Pot, meet Kettle.
Friday the 13th was made for the express purpose of being like Halloween. Read absolutely anything about the development of the film. Sean Cunningham and Victor Miller made the film solely to cash in on the success of Halloween. It may have done some things differently, and that execution is what makes it the classic and endlessly imitated horror flick that it is. But you can't pretend that it doesn't owe its existence to Carpenter's film.
It wasn't until Part 2 that Bay of Blood showed its influence, and Jason appeared with his Sundown-esque burlap sack.
And pointing out slasher films that came out before Halloween is a pointless exercise. Halloween was not the first slasher film, but it was the one that popularized the genre and became the high water mark for everything that came after. It solidified the genre's tropes and themes, and gave slasherdom arguably its most iconic villain. You can point out films prior to Halloween that could be considered slashers or proto-slashers (Psycho, Peeping Tom), but none that have quite the same direct importance to the genre.
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Thanks, Ace, for saving me time. I would have written the exact same thing.
And ANYONE that doesn't know the Cunningham Ripping Off Carpenter story has no right to comment about the Slasher genre. Duh!!!
Lulzy since everyone knows these films are Canadian to the core.
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