My favorite slasher movies are: -Halloween (1978) -Friday The 13th Part 2 (1981) -My Bloody Valentine (1981) -Urban Legend (1998) -I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) -Black Christmas (1974)
Awesome list! However, I believe there is good debate around Halloween 78 being a slasher. Personallty, think its not in the slasher genre but heavily inspired it.
My favorite old school slasher horror movie is happy birthday to me and my blood valentine and prom night and Friday the 13th and Halloween and black Christmas
@@goranhrastovik5364 You are likely right. I don't doubt you. I just tend to out this one in a separate category from traditional slashers. Makes for a good debate, huh? :-)
I agree that Texas Chainsaw deserves a mention here. With the exception of the killers POV all the other slasher tropes are here. It at least deserves a mention as a “proto-slasher” as well as Peeping Tom. I think Halloween brought all the tropes together and delivered it in one neat package, but Friday the 13th perfected the slasher formula. Also, as a person who lived through the 80’s slasher craze, I don’t think that the later ludicrous sequel concepts like Jason goes to Hell or Jason X were where the franchises fell apart. They covered that in the same documentary “Going to Pieces”. It was that the slashers kept trying to out do themselves and eventually everything felt repetitive and old. Those movies were basically shovel-ware until something new like Elm Street or Child’s Play came along. In the 80’s we always wanted something new. Even in the 90’s, it was what Scream did right. It felt new and fresh. The current fresh thing is the franchise Re-alignment angle and for now, I’m on board with the likes of Halloween 2018.
Fucking ADORE Slashers and Slasher Monsters. my favorite being the big Daddy of em all. JASON FUCKING VOORHEES! i also love Freddy, Michael, Leatherface, Chucky, Ect ect ect. but Jason is my FAVORITE. and i fucking love him so much!
My Favorite Slashers Are Halloween 1978 Friday The 13th Part 3D Child's Play 2019 Psycho 1960 Children of the Corn 1984 Silent Night Scream LeatherFace
Whether you like it or not ,the first slasher was Psycho.Although without wanting it,and without being a great slasher but it is the first one,,all the later ones were inspired by it,everything has its evolution but it is the one that most carries the definition of the slash word.Carpenter always said that Psycho is everyones grandfather
A good debate would be whether Halloween '78 or even Pyscho are really 'slashers'. I would say no- the difference being that horror and its subgenre 'Slasher' follow fundamentally different formats. Psycho and Halloween 78 are more.psychological than bloody, for example, and usually involve a fixation on one particular victim. 'Slashers' seem to typically involve random victims. Just my opinion, but what say you?
Psycho your correct ....Its more of a proto type to the slasher genre. Halloween on the other hand I would give the credit to being the first full fledge slasher. Has all the tropes that later movies would follow ...The later movies just upped the body count and gore which you kind of had to if your going to make a bunch of them...Evolution... Also I wouldnt say Michael had a fixation per say with Laurie at least in the original...She was just the main character that us the audience could experience the movie through. Michael didnt even come after her until she went across the street to see what was going on...I get that he followed her around a little bit but that was more to setup Michaels character in being the boogeyman because in those scenes he would just seem to vanish into thin air.
@@donwilk9196 You know, that's a really good perspective on that! You are right about when Michael actually decides to stalk Laurie which isn't until the end. So to be true to the slasher trope, could we say that perhaps he was stalking (and maybe killing) others before Laurie becomes the fixation, and the movie just focused on her character? I always place Halloween (1978 specifically) in its own genre just a notch above your typical slasher, only because of fewer body counts, little to no gore, and more character analysis on the killer. What say you?
@@ButterCookie1984 Ya I have Halloween above the rest for reasons you mentioned and I think it was just done the best ...For me at least. What followed after focused more on the body count and creative ways to kill the victims for the most part...While enjoyable doesn't do it for me as much as Halloween
Agree he became fixated ...Or just focus turned towards Laurie by the end...But it wasnt like there was a motivation of sorts to go after her . Thats what makes Halloween great. Just some guy/thing or who really knows what he is escapes a mental hospital and starts randomly killing teenagers...Wasnt until the sequel where they became siblings and gave us the audience some sort of motivation
@@donwilk9196 I completely agree. While Halloween is a more classic horror, the sequels were all typical slashers, with Part 2 being more closer to the original. The "Friday the 13th" franchise probably pressured the producers to go with that style of slasher.
My favorite slasher movies are: Halloween(1978) Friday the 13th(1980) A nightmare on elm Street (original) The Texas chainsaw massacre(original) Scream(1996) Silence of the lambs Predator(original) It part 1 (2017)
Halloween was not a ground breaking film and Halloween only came out 1 ½ years before friday the 13th Halloween came out late late october 25 1978 at that poin it was basically 1979 at that point so Halloween was only 1 and a half older then friday the 13th
My favorite slasher movies are:
-Halloween (1978)
-Friday The 13th Part 2 (1981)
-My Bloody Valentine (1981)
-Urban Legend (1998)
-I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
-Black Christmas (1974)
Awesome list! However, I believe there is good debate around Halloween 78 being a slasher. Personallty, think its not in the slasher genre but heavily inspired it.
My favorite old school slasher horror movie is happy birthday to me and my blood valentine and prom night and Friday the 13th and Halloween and black Christmas
@@ButterCookie1984 Oh, it's a slasher...classic slasher. Fact.
@@goranhrastovik5364 You are likely right. I don't doubt you. I just tend to out this one in a separate category from traditional slashers. Makes for a good debate, huh? :-)
@@ButterCookie1984 All classic movies are seperate category..first come the original..than a decade of copycats ;) have a good one
I agree that Texas Chainsaw deserves a mention here. With the exception of the killers POV all the other slasher tropes are here. It at least deserves a mention as a “proto-slasher” as well as Peeping Tom. I think Halloween brought all the tropes together and delivered it in one neat package, but Friday the 13th perfected the slasher formula. Also, as a person who lived through the 80’s slasher craze, I don’t think that the later ludicrous sequel concepts like Jason goes to Hell or Jason X were where the franchises fell apart. They covered that in the same documentary “Going to Pieces”. It was that the slashers kept trying to out do themselves and eventually everything felt repetitive and old. Those movies were basically shovel-ware until something new like Elm Street or Child’s Play came along. In the 80’s we always wanted something new. Even in the 90’s, it was what Scream did right. It felt new and fresh. The current fresh thing is the franchise Re-alignment angle and for now, I’m on board with the likes of Halloween 2018.
Why doesn’t have this more views?! This is fucking awesome.
‘Black Christmas’ does feel really Canadian.
Aye
Especially when they say "about". Dead giveaway
home video made slasher's so popular because for the first time you could see movies that weren't worth theater prices.
Fucking ADORE Slashers and Slasher Monsters. my favorite being the big Daddy of em all. JASON FUCKING VOORHEES! i also love Freddy, Michael, Leatherface, Chucky, Ect ect ect. but Jason is my FAVORITE. and i fucking love him so much!
My Favorite Slashers Are
Halloween 1978
Friday The 13th Part 3D
Child's Play 2019
Psycho 1960
Children of the Corn 1984
Silent Night
Scream
LeatherFace
Manic Cop 2
Whether you like it or not ,the first slasher was Psycho.Although without wanting it,and without being a great slasher but it is the first one,,all the later ones were inspired by it,everything has its evolution but it is the one that most carries the definition of the slash word.Carpenter always said that Psycho is everyones grandfather
Why is Texas Chainsaw Massacre not mentioned
A good debate would be whether Halloween '78 or even Pyscho are really 'slashers'. I would say no- the difference being that horror and its subgenre 'Slasher' follow fundamentally different formats. Psycho and Halloween 78 are more.psychological than bloody, for example, and usually involve a fixation on one particular victim. 'Slashers' seem to typically involve random victims. Just my opinion, but what say you?
Psycho your correct ....Its more of a proto type to the slasher genre. Halloween on the other hand I would give the credit to being the first full fledge slasher. Has all the tropes that later movies would follow ...The later movies just upped the body count and gore which you kind of had to if your going to make a bunch of them...Evolution... Also I wouldnt say Michael had a fixation per say with Laurie at least in the original...She was just the main character that us the audience could experience the movie through. Michael didnt even come after her until she went across the street to see what was going on...I get that he followed her around a little bit but that was more to setup Michaels character in being the boogeyman because in those scenes he would just seem to vanish into thin air.
@@donwilk9196 You know, that's a really good perspective on that! You are right about when Michael actually decides to stalk Laurie which isn't until the end. So to be true to the slasher trope, could we say that perhaps he was stalking (and maybe killing) others before Laurie becomes the fixation, and the movie just focused on her character?
I always place Halloween (1978 specifically) in its own genre just a notch above your typical slasher, only because of fewer body counts, little to no gore, and more character analysis on the killer. What say you?
@@ButterCookie1984 Ya I have Halloween above the rest for reasons you mentioned and I think it was just done the best ...For me at least. What followed after focused more on the body count and creative ways to kill the victims for the most part...While enjoyable doesn't do it for me as much as Halloween
Agree he became fixated ...Or just focus turned towards Laurie by the end...But it wasnt like there was a motivation of sorts to go after her . Thats what makes Halloween great. Just some guy/thing or who really knows what he is escapes a mental hospital and starts randomly killing teenagers...Wasnt until the sequel where they became siblings and gave us the audience some sort of motivation
@@donwilk9196 I completely agree. While Halloween is a more classic horror, the sequels were all typical slashers, with Part 2 being more closer to the original. The "Friday the 13th" franchise probably pressured the producers to go with that style of slasher.
9:32 anybody know what this movie is? Looks freaking awesome.
Found it. Its called Bloody Moon (1981)
Boyd Crowder How wuz it, yo?
@@ryanjavierortega8513 it was pretty good. A nice, gory good time.
Bay of Blood takes the cake in my opinion
My favorite slasher movies are:
Halloween(1978)
Friday the 13th(1980)
A nightmare on elm Street (original)
The Texas chainsaw massacre(original)
Scream(1996)
Silence of the lambs
Predator(original)
It part 1 (2017)
It began in 1953.
It was Black Sabbath.
No Texas Chainsaw? Fail
You had me at slasher.
Halloween was not a ground breaking film and Halloween only came out 1 ½ years before friday the 13th Halloween came out late late october 25 1978 at that poin it was basically 1979 at that point so Halloween was only 1 and a half older then friday the 13th
HALLOWEEN OCTOBER 25 1978
FRIDAY THE 13TH MAY 9 1980
Mario bava a bay of blood is very violent
Scream
Such a cohesive telling of that time period
guy definitely knows his stuff