13 Insanely Underrated Slasher Movies You've GOTTA Watch

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  • Опубликовано: 28 май 2024
  • A look at 13 lesser known slasher horror movies that don't get enough love, highlighting less discussed entries into one of my favorite subgenres from across the decades that any fan should watch, including Tourist Trap, The Burning, The Prowler, Just Before Dawn, Hell Night, Curtains, Stage Fright, Slumber Party Massacre 2, Edge of the Axe, Intruder, Triangle, The Final Girls, and Haunt.
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  • @MattDraper
    @MattDraper  Месяц назад +1

    Watch 13 MORE Unsung Slashers here: ruclips.net/video/73cBAV9GNZw/видео.htmlsi=4gMpYtG59KMbGnvz

  • @sharonellis8776
    @sharonellis8776 11 месяцев назад +7

    My list includes Black Christmas, The Burning, Stage fright, My bloody valentine. xx

  • @jonathanmulondo9206
    @jonathanmulondo9206 11 месяцев назад +202

    The Burning, Slaughterhouse, Sleepaway Camp, Hush, Tourist Trap, Just Before Dawn, April Fool's Day, Stage Fright, New Year's Evil,Madman, Pieces, The Prowler and Hatchet are some of my favorite slashers that I feel don't get enough love.

    • @jacksonscott690
      @jacksonscott690 11 месяцев назад +16

      Sleepaway Camp is a classic. I remember people talking about it’s ending at the video store.

    • @zachminder8084
      @zachminder8084 11 месяцев назад +11

      • Don't Go in the House 1980
      • Motel Hell 1980
      • Butcher Baker, Nightmare Maker 1981
      • Graduation Day 1981
      • Hell Night 1981
      • X-ray 1981
      • Girls Nite Out 1982
      • The Dorm That Dripped Blood 1982
      • The Slayer 1982
      • Fatal Games 1984
      • The Initiation 1984
      • Body Count 1986
      • Blood Harvest 1987
      • The Majorettes 1987
      • Return to Horror High 1987
      • American Gothic 1988
      • Amsterdammned 1988
      • Cheerleader Camp 1988

    • @tomsawyer5736
      @tomsawyer5736 11 месяцев назад +1

      Agreed!

    • @tomsawyer5736
      @tomsawyer5736 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@jacksonscott690the only movie that still disturbs me & I saw it in 1986.

    • @sfm.viciousmane1374
      @sfm.viciousmane1374 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@zachminder8084 Blood Harvest is fucking terrible but it's hilarious. I watched it with my girl and we were dying laughing the whole time. Awesome movie. To this day if she sees tiny tim she calls him "blood harvest"

  • @tskmaster3837
    @tskmaster3837 11 месяцев назад +5

    "Triangle" is one of those films where the premise far outweighs its title.
    I saw the title, no reaction. I saw the first image "Oh, that one, I saw that one!"

  • @Oldbasshole
    @Oldbasshole 11 месяцев назад +7

    Hell Night is one of my all time favorite slashers ! Humungous is an solid obscure slasher. Happy Birthday to Me doesn’t get enough love

  • @blackhood7200
    @blackhood7200 11 месяцев назад +46

    Always discovering underrated slashers from the golden age of slashers in the 80s.

    • @MattDraper
      @MattDraper  11 месяцев назад +3

      There's so many!

    • @blackhood7200
      @blackhood7200 11 месяцев назад +4

      @Matt Draper yeah. Also I meant to say "Always love discovering." You should really do a retrospective on the Maniac Cop Trilogy. It's one of my favorite slasher franchises and really underrated. I'm sure you'll love it.

  • @lukegto
    @lukegto 11 месяцев назад +5

    Slumber party massacre II. The movie that introduced me to the greatest buddy handshake since shake and bake. Smoke! Em! Smoke em

  • @CryWolf-sm9iw
    @CryWolf-sm9iw 11 месяцев назад +13

    Madman is one of my absolute favorites that doesn’t get a lot of love. It’s another take on the Cropsey legend that came out around the same time as The Burning.

  • @makingmediamatter
    @makingmediamatter 11 месяцев назад +14

    The fact that I’m only just discovering there is a slasher with George from Seinfeld…
    Great video as always!

  • @potts9274
    @potts9274 11 месяцев назад +34

    I was really hoping ‘Happy Birthday to Me’ would make this list. It’s one of the greatest slashers that never gets talked about.

    • @jimhaggard7436
      @jimhaggard7436 11 месяцев назад +4

      It’s one of my favorites (along with Urban Legend). It’s also one of the few slashers from 1981 with no gratuitous nudity. Melissa Sue Anderson (Virginia) and Tracy Bregman (Ann) were only seventeen in the summer of 1980 during filming, although the setting is spring of 1981. Happy Birthday To Me and My Bloody Valentine were filmed back to back three months apart. MBV was filmed in the Fall of 1980 and released in February 1981. HBTM was filmed three months earlier than MBV and released in May of 1981.

    • @tgriffin3059
      @tgriffin3059 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@jimhaggard7436 That's an interesting point. I've always thought that this movie had just about the most gorgeous cast of females ever assembled. The girl from Little House is pretty, but in this movie she's like the plain chick. That one little girl who dated the blonde jock looks like Britney Spears with a different hairstyle. The friend with the big brown eyes and dimples is gorgeous...and the other blonde may be the finest of the group...It IS ironic that with a group like this there was not much revealed...I've seen plenty of films where it was just the opposite...

    • @tgriffin3059
      @tgriffin3059 10 месяцев назад +1

      Well, it sounds like it's on YOUR list, and that's what counts...it's certainly on mine...I can never decide, but I'd rank it 7 or 8 all time among slashers...

    • @futureprimitivepast3044
      @futureprimitivepast3044 9 месяцев назад +1

      Cool flick.

    • @kenjyy8774
      @kenjyy8774 9 месяцев назад

      What about Jeepers Creepers?

  • @MusicFromAnotherTime
    @MusicFromAnotherTime 11 месяцев назад +46

    I just watched Tourist Trap the other week for the first time. I was surprised with just how much I liked that movie.

    • @MattDraper
      @MattDraper  11 месяцев назад +4

      Very weird and fun and unpredictable!

    • @jamesb821
      @jamesb821 11 месяцев назад +5

      Never seen it, worth a watch?

    • @josebro352
      @josebro352 11 месяцев назад +1

      It's one of Stephen King's favorite films

    • @eduardo_corrochio
      @eduardo_corrochio 7 месяцев назад

      Sometimes I think the first sequence with the moving objects isn't even needed. I do like the film overall. The whole notion of one's face being covered slowly with plaster--- yeesh.

    • @PortugueseMACPOW
      @PortugueseMACPOW 6 месяцев назад +1

      Tourist Trap has one of the most gorgeous actresses that ever lived. (Tanya Roberts) can't forget her.

  • @rubberneckinc.8937
    @rubberneckinc.8937 3 месяца назад +2

    The Burning & the Prowler (as well as others) are some of the early work that makes you think Savini has piles of bodies in his basement. That haunting whistle is tremendous.

  • @warnerg80
    @warnerg80 11 месяцев назад +13

    Man I watched Hell night around the age of 3-4 back in 83-84 and that ending use to scare me so bad. That gate built so much tension 🤪

  • @shadxwbxrg2285
    @shadxwbxrg2285 11 месяцев назад +47

    I honestly have to thank Tubi for allowing me to come across some amazing movies. Sleepaway Camp, Intruder, The Prowler, The Burning and many more.

    • @ANTIPLANETRECORDS
      @ANTIPLANETRECORDS 6 месяцев назад +7

      tubi has amazing selections dude

    • @GothicCottage
      @GothicCottage 6 месяцев назад +5

      Agreed! Tubi is killing it with it’s horror movies! ❤

    • @Bat_Boy
      @Bat_Boy 5 месяцев назад +3

      I love Tubi.

    • @christopherpierson8237
      @christopherpierson8237 5 месяцев назад +2

      Tubi is the best

    • @Bat_Boy
      @Bat_Boy 5 месяцев назад

      @@christopherpierson8237 - The biggest draw to Tubi over Pluto TV…the commercial breaks are reasonable. Pluto TV is a non-stater at approx 9 interruptions that are longer than Tubi. It makes any movie there simply unwatchable. Hard pass.

  • @nolukeskywalker
    @nolukeskywalker 11 месяцев назад +6

    Some of my favourite Slashers not mentioned here are "New Year's Evil" (1980), "The New York Ripper" (1982), "Sleepaway Camp" (1983) (this one's so much fun), "Tenebrae" (1982) and "Visiting Hours" (1982).

    • @thomasffrench3639
      @thomasffrench3639 7 месяцев назад +3

      I feel like Sleepaway Camp is pretty well known. It was the first slasher I’ve heard about after the big 3.

    • @eduardo_corrochio
      @eduardo_corrochio 7 месяцев назад

      @@thomasffrench3639 Yes, at this point Sleepaway Camp isn't actually a cult flick, it's really popular now.

  • @TildaM1994
    @TildaM1994 11 месяцев назад +6

    I try to show people The Final Girls as often as possible. I fell so in love with that movie when I saw it, i watch it with my mum on halloween as part of my halloween marathon line up

  • @hopeatkinson4790
    @hopeatkinson4790 11 месяцев назад +7

    The Final Girls was such an unexpected delight. I stumbled on it and thought it would be fine as background noise and was totally invested within ten minutes.

  • @michaelj1729
    @michaelj1729 11 месяцев назад +24

    I am so glad you included *The Final Girls* cause that is sooo underrated as a slasher comedy. It has horror, comedy and heart I am still pissed that it didnt get the sequel it deserved. It deserves to be recognized tbh.

  • @youellswinney1964
    @youellswinney1964 11 месяцев назад +15

    Glad to see Just Before Dawn on here. I found a dvd of it randomly at a store nearly 20 years ago now and bought it on a whim and wound up loving it.

  • @tommystrickland6268
    @tommystrickland6268 11 месяцев назад +8

    Hell night is awesome. Me and my wife caught it on cable when visiting her gma in another state , she had no streaming and no DVD player just basic cable , and we were blessed with hell night and then earth girls are easy ended up being a great night

  • @PvtJoker22
    @PvtJoker22 11 месяцев назад +66

    My biggest takeaway from this video: Holy crap, Matt has an incredible all-time greatest film list. Kiki's delivery service AND Evil Dead 2?!?

    • @briarpatchlogic
      @briarpatchlogic 11 месяцев назад +7

      Yep...this stood out to me also...not the first time he's mentioned Kiki's

    • @firstnamelastname6859
      @firstnamelastname6859 11 месяцев назад +3

      No love for spirited away?

    • @PvtJoker22
      @PvtJoker22 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@firstnamelastname6859 oh I love Spirited away too, it was just a hell of a list and I just highlighted two that I recalled. Spirited Away is definitely also a GOAT.
      Like I said, big takeaway was Matt's got a fascinating all timer list.

    • @wadewilson8011
      @wadewilson8011 10 месяцев назад

      Yeah, his list SUCKS!

  • @IvanSanchez-ft3mp
    @IvanSanchez-ft3mp 11 месяцев назад +6

    Those are good picks, my fav is Final Girls. I will mention one that doesn't get mention much but it's Popcorn 1991 where you have a slasher who's killing people in a movie theater and to lure one of the characters because of a past connection that the killer wants revenge.
    It's a very cool slasher movie by having the characters watch different movies while the killer strikes one by one of the teen cast

  • @iandawson6461
    @iandawson6461 11 месяцев назад +6

    The Final Girls is one of my top films of the last ten years, and is super underseen.

  • @lford1130
    @lford1130 11 месяцев назад +8

    Hell Night was surprisingly good. Characters starts out like your average slasher movie fodder only to start making smart decisions. I loved that, and unheard of in the 80s for the most part.

  • @tgriffin3059
    @tgriffin3059 10 месяцев назад +3

    There's tons of unknown slasher movies, but many of them are unknown for good reason. But there are several legitimate 'hidden gems' that my own collection would not be complete without. Hell Night and Happy Birthday to Me are at the top of the list...but Final Exam, The Prowler, and To All a Good Night are outstanding, as well...

  • @eggsmcneil
    @eggsmcneil 11 месяцев назад +10

    Terror on Tour (1980), The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976), Alice, Sweet Alice (1976) are worth a watch. Great stuff, can't wait for the next list.

    • @honeychilerider
      @honeychilerider 6 месяцев назад

      The Witch Who Came From The Sea is one grimy, kooky movie. I really liked Alice Sweet Alice, which is funny because I low-key hated it halfway through and then I started understanding what the movie was versus my expectations and ended up liking it a lot.

  • @unconditionalprong
    @unconditionalprong 11 месяцев назад +5

    Dr. Giggles for a more comedic slasher. Larry Drake makes the movie. The Dr. Mario bit gets me every time!

  • @DCPatrol
    @DCPatrol 11 месяцев назад +3

    I can't believe I haven't seen a single one of those. Great list!

  • @frankbutcher4635
    @frankbutcher4635 11 месяцев назад +13

    Loved Hell Night!! One of my faves!! It’s like a deadly version of Scooby Doo with all the costumed characters wandering around the spooky old mansion. Linda Blair was an amazing final girl (her automotive knowledge turned a normal slasher film troupe on its head during the climatic showdown)! Great vid, great topic. Should you do a follow up, I’ll nominate HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME for consideration.

  • @pineapplesand556ers
    @pineapplesand556ers 11 месяцев назад +7

    I wonder how often Jason Alexander is asked to autograph The Burning DVDs.

    • @MattDraper
      @MattDraper  11 месяцев назад

      Not often enough!

  • @xiaural2
    @xiaural2 11 месяцев назад +31

    Hell Night is SOLID. I caught it years ago and was shocked by how good it was. A nice double play with Night of the Demons if you're having a horror night.

    • @wadewilson8011
      @wadewilson8011 10 месяцев назад +3

      Agreed! It was a shocker how good it was.

    • @honeychilerider
      @honeychilerider 6 месяцев назад +1

      I do really like HELL NIGHT but I also use it as my visual-aid for everything not to do if you're in a slasher: hiding instead of running, constantly stopping to look back for the killer, who HAS TO BE behind you when you are running, dropping the weapon for no reason, not making sure the killer's dead, on and on. And yet it still plays, I'm always happy to watch it.

    • @13blackcatzzz
      @13blackcatzzz 5 месяцев назад +2

      Lol, it's so funny you posted this. I literally had a double feature night last month with these two movies!!

    • @tgriffin3059
      @tgriffin3059 2 месяца назад

      @@honeychilerider Some of those conventions of the genre may get tiresome, but most are necessary. I've seen movies that tried to steer away from such devices, and they usually didn't work.

    • @honeychilerider
      @honeychilerider 2 месяца назад

      @@tgriffin3059
      Yeah, it's just funny that this one movie seems to use ALL of them. Like if you were giving a class on all the eye-rolling tropes of the Slasher genre, you could just show this one movie and be done.

  • @goldibollocks
    @goldibollocks 11 месяцев назад +5

    Triangle is pretty good, I remember it. Also, looking forward to a Sleepaway Camp Video!!!

  • @nospam3327
    @nospam3327 11 месяцев назад +4

    The trailer for Tourist Trap scared the crap out of me as a kid and haunted me for years. I love it :)

  • @aidenmartin4413
    @aidenmartin4413 11 месяцев назад +22

    Intruder is one of my favorites!!! So much talent behind it and such a fun setting. Also, I’d recommend The Final Terror. It’s a 1983 slasher that relies a lot on that isolated deep-woods setting you mentioned in Just Before Dawn and it has some shockingly serene cinematography. Kills are quite lackluster and the pacing can be a bit slow, but the setting is awesome; super memorable.

  • @wadewilson8011
    @wadewilson8011 10 месяцев назад +3

    1981 was an incredible year for horror. It was the year I was introduced to horror movies...
    The Burning.
    Wolfen.
    An American Werewolf in London.
    The Howling.
    Blood Beach.
    Just Before Dawn.
    Piranha II: The Spawning 😂.
    Halloween II. (Best on this list)
    Friday the 13th part II.
    Mad Man.
    Funhouse.
    Scanners.
    Evil Dead.
    Hell Night.
    Road Games.
    Graduation Day.
    And the REAL hidden gem on this list: Dark Night Of the Scarecrow.

    • @michaelbroer6378
      @michaelbroer6378 8 месяцев назад

      Thanks for the list, I can remember the popularity in the spring of so many coming out at the same time. 1981 wasn't only great for this genre but for movies in general. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, ATLANTIC CITY, and CHARIOTS OF FIRE were nominated for best picture. Also, what other year can boast of having THREE movies based on werewolf/wolf killers. The year also had one of the best B-movies of all time, KNIGHTRIDERS which was for a lot of folks more memorable than EXCALIBUR, also from this year. 1939, 1950, are often sited as the best movie years of all time, but 1981 isn't far behind.

    • @wadewilson8011
      @wadewilson8011 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@michaelbroer6378 YOO! Not many people remember
      Atlantic City with Burt Lancaster! I was too young to be watching that movie (actually too young for any of them except Time Bandits). But I used to watch it all the time on cable back then.
      But gosh outside of horror there were the ones you mentioned and: Escape From New York.
      Southern Comfort.
      Scanners.
      Clash of the Titans.
      TAPS.
      Mad Max II.
      Death Hunt.
      Sharkey's Machine.
      Bustin' Loose.
      Porky's.
      NightHawks.
      To add just a few...

  • @Arvaniz
    @Arvaniz 11 месяцев назад +17

    Didn't expect to see "Triangle", one of my favorite horror movies, in the list (probably because I never thought of it as a slasher). Melissa George IS the movie, it fully rests on her shoulders, and she delivers perfectly.
    PS: My favorite slasher (proto-slasher?) is "Black Christmas" (the original from 1974). Although I don't know if it's underrated or not. :-P

    • @kaansoler1431
      @kaansoler1431 11 месяцев назад +1

      The original Black Christmas is fantastic. Both remakes were very very bad!!!

    • @billkelly6292
      @billkelly6292 11 месяцев назад +1

      Black Christmas director Bob Clark is the same guy that directed A Christmas Story.

  • @theg415
    @theg415 10 месяцев назад +3

    I'd also like to add 'Urban Legend' and it's sequel from the 2000s, which gave the slasher genre an urban legend twist. The villain is great in both.

    • @theg415
      @theg415 6 месяцев назад

      @@DorisDay-lw4xs it happens, but are still fun

  • @Tuckbro
    @Tuckbro 11 месяцев назад +9

    One movie I would like to nominate is Prom Night (1980). Its not as obscure as these other films, in fact you might know about it, but I never see anyone talk about it. It stars Jamie Lee Curtis and Leslie Nelson and actually is a pretty decent movie. Definitely check it out if you like any of these other movies.

    • @DeanWinchester69
      @DeanWinchester69 11 месяцев назад +2

      The disco scenes are fun, and the Wendy chase scene is memorable. Can't forget to mention Lou the bully's roll down the runway as would-be prom king! 😀

    • @benderbendingrodriguez420
      @benderbendingrodriguez420 11 месяцев назад +3

      I always found Prom Night boring af

    • @TheVAULTofHORROR
      @TheVAULTofHORROR 11 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@benderbendingrodriguez420Yeah. Part 2 is better

    • @Tuckbro
      @Tuckbro 11 месяцев назад

      @@benderbendingrodriguez420 yeah prom night is much more of a 70s slasher than an 80s one meaning it has a slower pace but is more tense in my opinion. while an 80s slasher is just "DEATH! BLOOD! SEX!"

    • @waynehand4600
      @waynehand4600 11 месяцев назад

      The bully later played the cop in half baked who owned the horse that Kenny fed and killed

  • @stewartschuster
    @stewartschuster 11 месяцев назад +7

    Watched Triangle last night, after watching this video. Loved it. Looking forward to exploring more from this list.

  • @larrymrobinson1051
    @larrymrobinson1051 11 месяцев назад +2

    I was in a Slasher film called Happy Hell Night 1989, it played on Cable for a couple of years!

  • @kaylaturnis9486
    @kaylaturnis9486 23 дня назад +1

    My favorite B slasher horror movies are The Burning, Sleepaway Camp, The Funhouse, Don't Go In The House, Alone In The Dark, Pieces, My Bloody Valentine, Don't Answer The Phone, Prom Night, and Dark Night Of The Scarecrow!

  • @ytgytgy
    @ytgytgy 5 месяцев назад +1

    Don't Open til Christmas, and Don't Look in the Basement are 2 of my FAVORITE classic b slashers. Every Christmas time I watch those, and they're like a connection to my mom who passed from cancer last year. We used to go out and buy the huge low-budget dvd sets that were pretty common in the late 00's, some 420, and watch through them all to find the many gems.

  • @SemrixCRJB
    @SemrixCRJB 11 месяцев назад +6

    Cool video man. I thought I’d be on top of these but there were a few I had no idea about that look great.
    I recommend checking out Popcorn & Terror Train. My slightly looser “slasher” recommendations would be Dead Man’s Shoes, Mirror Mirror and Prom Night 2 (Prom night 3 is pretty fun too)

  • @michaelsaglembeni3821
    @michaelsaglembeni3821 5 месяцев назад +1

    Man, you hit on some of my favorite slashers from back in the day!! Tourist Trap, Hell Night, The Burning are really great!!

  • @weaktea4252
    @weaktea4252 11 месяцев назад +3

    I haven't seen any of the others, but I completely agree re: Final Girls. A great movie. It brought a tear to my eye.

  • @DisembodiedScreams
    @DisembodiedScreams 11 месяцев назад +3

    Great list. Just before dawn had a score by Brad Fiedel who worked with James Cameron. Probably why it works so well.

  • @bensneb360
    @bensneb360 11 месяцев назад +12

    Great list, I would also nominate Pieces (1982), it has very memorable kills, toes the line between horror and comedy very well, and was an inspiration to Eli Roth and Quentin Tarantino.

  • @TrevorMoses312
    @TrevorMoses312 11 месяцев назад +2

    The Demon and Return of The Family Man are two of my guilty pleasures.

  • @timothybush7050
    @timothybush7050 6 месяцев назад +1

    Seen them all. The tourist trap scene with the wax suffocating the victim is nightmares

  • @christhornton8219
    @christhornton8219 11 месяцев назад +5

    Hell Night is amazing!

  • @tamarrosenberg-walker7599
    @tamarrosenberg-walker7599 11 месяцев назад +1

    Madman , Charlie’s farm , lost in the dark, the prowler so many. This was a great list. I’ve seen and own all of these movies.

  • @jikorijo4516
    @jikorijo4516 11 месяцев назад +5

    Good video! I enjoy lists that give attention to obscure, hidden gems. It's also cool you released this video in the beginning of June, since some of these films take place during the Summer.
    One of my favorite slasher films (and favorite films, in general) is Alice, Sweet Alice (1976). It was the film debut of Brooke Shields and is a very effective stark Catholic-themed horror/mystery film, which was stylistically influenced by Alfred Hitchcock and Nicolas Roeg's occult-themed thriller, Don't Look Now (1973).

  • @Vinegarhusband
    @Vinegarhusband 11 месяцев назад +3

    Great to see love for Triangle

  • @michaelkeeney1637
    @michaelkeeney1637 5 месяцев назад +1

    Back when I first saw Intruder, I was actually working overnight stock at a grocery store. It really added to my enjoyment of this film!

  • @damonke79
    @damonke79 11 месяцев назад +2

    Awesome video. I liked Terror Train a good amount. I also don't know if Opera gets enough love either.

  • @FreakaJebus
    @FreakaJebus 11 месяцев назад +21

    Intruder is so insanely underrated. All Raimi fans should see it, but most don't know it exists!

    • @LuisDiaz-zr2vs
      @LuisDiaz-zr2vs 11 месяцев назад +2

      it was even more incredible when the first VHS releases revealed the killer's identity.

    • @Tables-zm7db
      @Tables-zm7db 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@LuisDiaz-zr2vswho was it

  • @CHRISMED2
    @CHRISMED2 7 месяцев назад +1

    So glad that Just before dawn made the list. It's actually a very beautiful shot film on location in Oregon. Plus the quite tone & lack of soundtrack adds to the suspense. One of the best final girls

  • @manhattanhusky
    @manhattanhusky 11 месяцев назад +5

    I grew up with a lot of these films when they came out. Really was a great decade :) One film I really want to add to the list, Humongous. Thanks for bringing back a lot of good memories :)

    • @smog1945
      @smog1945 6 месяцев назад +1

      Love Humongous. Glad to see someone mention

  • @maximusprime3459
    @maximusprime3459 11 месяцев назад +4

    Crazy, I own almost half of these. The climax of 'Just Before Dawn' must be seen to be believed.

    • @MattDraper
      @MattDraper  11 месяцев назад +1

      It's such a shocking ending, I love it.

    • @maximusprime3459
      @maximusprime3459 11 месяцев назад

      @@MattDraper Me too

    • @michaelbroer6378
      @michaelbroer6378 8 месяцев назад

      For me it's the best of them all. The story seems more plausible than any other and most of us have camped out in similar settings making it seem so real.

  • @karrotakun3581
    @karrotakun3581 Месяц назад +1

    The Prowler is SO close to being amazing. Its pacing is just a huge blunder. The kills and the killer's design are top tier though. Savini's gore in this movie is so visceral, I can't help but feel that he was maybe channeling some of his experiences from Vietnam with this one.

  • @toddboughn5168
    @toddboughn5168 11 месяцев назад +4

    Really good picks. A couple of my lesser known faves are April Fool's Day (great "kills" and the ending is fun), and I love Sleepaway Camp (the ending is brilliant and I'll die on that hill).

    • @tgriffin3059
      @tgriffin3059 10 месяцев назад

      Yeah, that ending made the film. Up til then, it was pretty good...but that finale made it unforgettable...there's only so many movies you can truly say that about...

  • @jesusfernandez974
    @jesusfernandez974 11 месяцев назад +4

    Great as always Matt 👍.

  • @DyenamicFilms
    @DyenamicFilms 11 месяцев назад +2

    I just did a rewatch of Tourist Trap (got the blu ray). I was always a fan of that one. A great horror score by Pino Donaggio. I first saw it on TV in the early 80's. I just happened to rewatch two not mentioned yesterday right here on RUclips. He Knows You're Alone (Tom Hanks first movie) and The Boogeyman (1980). First saw those on TV in the 80's as well. There's a "charm" to all of them in one way or another.

  • @collinmichaelkahn3918
    @collinmichaelkahn3918 13 дней назад

    Your assessment of Just Before Dawn was an insta-subscribe.
    I myself remember seeing the VHS cover as a wee bit (born in 83, lived through the golden era of horror home-video with an independent movie shop literally behind my house one fence and an alley away). Finally just saw it when I grabbed the Code Red Bluray for the slip alone in 2020.
    Cannot begin to say how blown away I was as a lifetime horror fan and slasher-completist. The fact that I had some how missed out on this extremely competent lil sleeper of a film was bittersweet; awesome because how few new slasher classic experiences does one get, but sad because clearly not a lot of people are aware of it which has helped it to become unjustly buried.
    Before I even started the JBD section, I paused and said out loud, “I’d bet every penny in my possession this person is going to mention at least the score and intro and the efficacy and atmosphere of the setting. Not because I am some nerdy troll know-it-all but because they are so effective. The way the not so thrilling quality of the standard-def some how lends itself to the eerieness that intro builds in you right from the start. And once that church sequence goes down (well, for the first time anyway haha) you know pretty instantly: holy f**k this movie is pretty unhinged and they are going to take you places!
    Totally rad “final girl.” Really effective and simultaneously obnoxious but lovable “anti-final-girl (TM, lol). Jack Lemmons passable clone of a son, right down to the smile and freakishly similar voice.
    And to me terrifically unnerving killers. Like to a lot of people they might seem funny or kitschy or outlandish, but I had family in the stix of Tennessee with genuine, generational hillbilly neighbors all around who would literally chase your car as you drove by cackling and making straight-up violent faces with dried dirt, food and gosh knows what else on their faces, so the killers hit real for me. You’re laughing because you’re uncomfortable imagining somebody that creepy out in the world, but trust me: they’re out there.
    Happy to discover you by watching these slasher videos to pat myself on the back for knowing all of them (I did; not a humble-brag but a curse) only to be taken in by your sense of humor, honesty and overall warmth of engagement. Cheers dude/ya’ll/whatever feels right to you. Keep up the good work.

  • @jasonmaclean719
    @jasonmaclean719 11 месяцев назад +2

    I was kind of hoping you'd mention Return to Horror High. Always found that to be a fun watch, complete with a few brief cameos.

  • @jwnj9716
    @jwnj9716 11 месяцев назад +4

    Slumber Party Massacre 2 is ridiculous but entertaining. Too bad The Burning didn't get a sequel. I enjoyed The Final Girls but it should have been rated R.

  • @DeanWinchester69
    @DeanWinchester69 11 месяцев назад +2

    No recommendations from 1980? Some underrated slashers I would recommend from that year would include Prom Night, The Unseen, Silent Scream (filmed in '79 but released in 1980), and Anthropophagous (aka The Grim reaper). 😱💀🔪

  • @noelleb.3643
    @noelleb.3643 5 месяцев назад

    Off to watch these now, thank you for the reccs! I love seeing lesser known slashers come to light, the ones by big studios don't usually have the same level of quality imo

  • @whall280
    @whall280 11 месяцев назад

    Such a good video. Thank you for making it. It gave me a few movies to seek out for sure.

  • @shaftomite007
    @shaftomite007 11 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you, dude! GREAT LIST! I think of myself as kind of a hardcore long-time horror fan, but somehow haven't seen, or even heard of, most of these.

  • @catrinag.9262
    @catrinag.9262 11 месяцев назад +2

    I love Edge of the Ax and Intruder. I saw Intruder in a watch party during the pandemic so much I bought it on DVD. I mean the Raimis and a Bruce Campbell cameo you can't go wrong. Also amazing kills! Triangle is really freaking good too. The Burning is also one of my faves. So many actors that went on to do amazing things. I have seen all of these except for Final Girls and Stagefright. Great collection here. Highly recommend!

    • @damonke79
      @damonke79 11 месяцев назад +2

      Intruder would be awesome to watch with a group. Watched it with my wife and it's got that so bad it's good vibe...we had a great time making jokes throughout the movie

    • @catrinag.9262
      @catrinag.9262 11 месяцев назад

      @@damonke79 it's also chocked full of 80s goodness imo. It just had that feel. Especially the haircuts of the girls and the clothes and the mag cover of Sting 👍👍👍👍

  • @MichaelWilliams-lm5fr
    @MichaelWilliams-lm5fr 6 месяцев назад

    Great list, nice to see some movies that never come up on other videos like this and also nice to find some movies I havent seen or heard of before. Thanks for the video :)

  • @halfabeet
    @halfabeet 11 месяцев назад +2

    The Burning also features Jason Alexander (George Costanza) baring his behind

    • @kaansoler1431
      @kaansoler1431 11 месяцев назад

      Don't forget about the dude from Fast Times. Lol

  • @honeychilerider
    @honeychilerider 6 месяцев назад +1

    Some others I'd wanna put on here (trying to stick to reasonably deep cuts):
    Dark Night Of The Scarecrow (boy is this better than it oughta be)
    Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (I think this counts)
    Mortuary (with a young Bill Paxton!)
    Alone In The Dark
    The Final Terror
    Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (pretty crazy movie)
    And I'm +/- on I, Madman. I got people who love it, and I dug a lot about it, but ultimately came up a bit short for me.

  • @johnpittsii7524
    @johnpittsii7524 11 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks for the amazing list Matt ❤

  • @PatriotPrimeReviews
    @PatriotPrimeReviews 8 месяцев назад

    Great video Matt, just randomly found you today.
    I'm a huge Horror/Slasher Fan and I don't think I've seen any of these.
    Subbed immediately. 😁

  • @Crazy_about_media
    @Crazy_about_media 11 месяцев назад +2

    Great video. Did I noticed a brief Friday the 13th: A New Beginning clip when you were talking about Slumber Party Massacre II?

    • @jpvielleux
      @jpvielleux 11 месяцев назад

      Yep, I saw it too @12:23 ish

  • @robfuzz
    @robfuzz 6 месяцев назад

    Great video! Reminds me of all the slasher movie ads in the entertainment section of my newspaper from the early 80s. It seemed like there were two or three coming out every week! It's funny now to look at some of the effects in films like The Burning where its so clear that an actor is holding up a fake hand or is poking his head out of a dummy body.

  • @BunniesRZombies
    @BunniesRZombies 4 месяца назад

    You just unlocked a memory lol, I watched tourist trap with my parents but I never knew the name of it, thanks!!

  • @adampavlovic6905
    @adampavlovic6905 11 месяцев назад

    One of my fav vids you ever made! Awesome!

  • @alabamafreak
    @alabamafreak 4 месяца назад

    If there's any movie of my own that I could suggest, it'd be 1980's "Maniac" by William Lustig of Maniac Cop fame. Not only does it have superb gore effects that hold up surprisingly well (which were done by Tom Savini) and a gritty New York atmosphere, but also an interesting gimmick with it being a character study of the film's titular slasher himself; Frank Zito (played to disturbing perfection by Joe Spinell.) Now while it isn't exactly a cheesy popcorn movie, it's definitely one of those movie that any horror/slasher fan should watch at least ONCE in their lifetime.

  • @AntonXul
    @AntonXul 11 месяцев назад +3

    I would recommend “Night Train to Terror”. I loved this movie since I was a kid in the ‘80s. I was surprised at the low score in IMDB I initially saw. It was in the low 3s but now it’s in the low 4s, so it’s gaining some traction, most likely it being on Tubi now.
    It’s a horror anthology that takes place on a train where God and Satan are reviewing cases about who goes the to Heaven or Hell. It’s made up of 3 movies that were edited down to make an anthology. It’s gory with good stories.
    The only reason I would think it gets a low score is probably due to the low budget that spoiled, modern day fans don’t like and the gratuitous nudity in the first 2 stories which women would most likely object to. If you can overlook these things, you’re in for a good time.

  • @raptorclaw163
    @raptorclaw163 10 месяцев назад

    So glad you put Haunt on this list. Very cool slasher

  • @beanheaddd3764
    @beanheaddd3764 11 месяцев назад +2

    Have most of these on vhs/dvd for years.
    But never heard of JUST BEFORE DAWN 😱😱😱

    • @MattDraper
      @MattDraper  11 месяцев назад +1

      Absolutely check it out!

  • @superbowlofselfabuse
    @superbowlofselfabuse 11 месяцев назад +2

    Anyone looking through the comments for more recommendations who are just discovering 80s slashers I'd also watch:
    Blood Rage
    Blood Hook
    Bloody Birthday
    Cheerleader Camp
    Don't Answer the Phone
    Don't Go in the Woods
    Don't Open Till Christmas
    The Dorm That Dripped Blood
    Edge of the Axe
    Eyes of a Stranger
    The Fan
    Fatal Games
    Final Exam
    Final Terror
    Funhouse
    Girls Nite Out
    Graduation Day
    Happy Birthday to Me
    He Knows You're Alone
    Home Sweet Home
    House on Sorority Row
    Humongous
    The Initiation
    Intruder
    Killer Party
    Madhouse
    Madman
    Maniac
    Mountaintop Motel Massacre
    The Mutilator
    New Years Evil
    Nightmare Beach
    Pieces
    Prom Night
    Road Games
    Schizoid
    Silent Madness
    Silent Night Deadly Night
    Slaughter High
    Splatter University
    Sweet Sixteen
    Terror on Tour
    To All a Good Night
    The Unseen
    Visiting Hours
    There are SO MANY more out there. Sorry, slashers are kinda my thing. Great video!

    • @DeanWinchester69
      @DeanWinchester69 11 месяцев назад

      I'm totally with you as a fellow slasher fan, and overall horror fan. I think I've seen every single one of these except for Silent Madness! Thanks to all the boutique movie distributors/labels out there like Vinegar Syndrome, Scream factory, Arrow Video, Severin, Synapse, Blue Underground, etc., I've been able to track down even the most obscure of these titles. During the late '90s and early 2000's I was able to grow my horror movie collection with companies like Anchor Bay and Shriekshow/Media Blasters.

  • @TV-Tony
    @TV-Tony 11 месяцев назад

    I loved that you used a clip of Juliet Cummins not only from Slumber Party Passacre 2, but from Friday the 13th 5 lol.

  • @HishamA.N_Comicbroe
    @HishamA.N_Comicbroe 11 месяцев назад +2

    Damn this was good! Would def love more recommendations like this!

  • @bruh_hahaha
    @bruh_hahaha 11 месяцев назад

    Great list! Never even heard of ‘Just Before Dawn’ but will definitely check it out!

  • @DennySF415
    @DennySF415 11 месяцев назад +1

    Missing from this list: Alice, Sweet Alice, Sleepaway Camp, and Happy Birthday To Me 🎂

  • @lukenarlee8118
    @lukenarlee8118 7 месяцев назад

    Great video! I have not seen most of these. Would love to see a 13 unsung haunted house movies! Please and thank you :)

  • @claydogmadman6295
    @claydogmadman6295 11 месяцев назад +1

    The clown from the movie called "The Terrorize" is the the new modern day horror of this era...

  • @kimberlyjeanne9456
    @kimberlyjeanne9456 3 месяца назад

    I grew up in the 80's, seeing many of these at that time. I remember being scared of Curtains and Hell Night. I've watched them both again in the last 5 year or so and man are they bad lol. Much better as nostalgic memories

  • @lueysixty-six7300
    @lueysixty-six7300 8 месяцев назад +1

    Oh snap!
    >> .. It's George Costanza in Summer Camp!! 😆👍 3:23

  • @billyrice5573
    @billyrice5573 11 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks for keeping up the good work man! Your videos always make my day.

    • @MattDraper
      @MattDraper  11 месяцев назад +1

      Glad to hear it!

  • @TomFrichek
    @TomFrichek 11 месяцев назад +2

    Brilliant as usual, Draper. 10/10 fricheks

  • @toxicpunkette
    @toxicpunkette 11 месяцев назад +1

    Don't know if Alice sweet Alice would go in the slasher section but it's an underated movie.

  • @lukasjames69
    @lukasjames69 11 месяцев назад +1

    Trick(2019) and Slashers(2001) are two more fantastic slasher movies!

  • @daneparsons8983
    @daneparsons8983 5 месяцев назад

    Absolutely loved The Burning ! The raft attack was amazing

  • @DaveTexas
    @DaveTexas 6 месяцев назад

    Triangle is amazing! I wouldn’t think of it as a slasher without some prompting, but yeah, it’s worthy of this list.

  • @ntcnetwork9934
    @ntcnetwork9934 11 месяцев назад +1

    3:44 IS THAT GOSH DARN FREAKING GEORGE COSTANZA??!!