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| - Slasher film is a sub-genre of the horror film genre typically involving a psychopathic killer stalking and killing a sequence of victims in a graphically violent manner, often with a cutting tool such as a chainsaw or scythe. Although the term "slasher" may be used as a generic term for any horror movie involving graphic acts of murder, the slasher as a genre has its own set of characteristics which set it apart from related genres like the splatter film. Writer Adam Rockoff, in an interview with Bryan Layne reported in Oddity Cinema, says: "I guess I could spout out some academic BS, but really, I think that as long as you have a killer who murders people with sharp objects, and a few thematic and/or stylistic conventions that have become staples of the genre– the final girl or the kille
- Slasher films make up a subcategory, or sub-genre, of horror fiction, (also known as horrible friction), which is funded by the publishers of Gray's Anatomy and which slices and dices human beings in as many ways and as imaginatively as possible, using knives, sickles, meat hooks, hatchets, axes, chainsaws, or whatever other instrument can make the biggest wound or produce the greatest amount of gore (a codeword for blood and guts).
- The victims are usually photogenic teenagers or young adults who are away from mainstream civilization or far away from help and often involved in sexual activities, illegal-drug use, or both. These films typically begin with the murder of a young woman and typically end with a lone female survivor who manages to subdue the killer, only to discover that the problem has not been completely solved. Although Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho provided early inspiration,some argue the first authentic slasher film was Black Christmas, although as the pacing is far off from a typical slasher film. There are many who could also fairly argue if you include black Christmas you must include psycho. Or at least 1965 version of ten little Indians. though the success of Halloween, Friday the 13th, and A Nightma
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| - The victims are usually photogenic teenagers or young adults who are away from mainstream civilization or far away from help and often involved in sexual activities, illegal-drug use, or both. These films typically begin with the murder of a young woman and typically end with a lone female survivor who manages to subdue the killer, only to discover that the problem has not been completely solved. Although Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho provided early inspiration,some argue the first authentic slasher film was Black Christmas, although as the pacing is far off from a typical slasher film. There are many who could also fairly argue if you include black Christmas you must include psycho. Or at least 1965 version of ten little Indians. though the success of Halloween, Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street helped popularize and revolutionize the genre in the 1980s. In a slasher film, the killer almost always uses unconventional weapons, such as blades, chainsaws, cleavers, and blunt objects; rarely, if ever, does the killer use guns. There is often a backstory that explains how the killer developed his (the killer is usually, though not always, male) violent mental state, and why he focuses primarily on a particular type of victim or a particular location. Often, the killer is able to withstand most or all of his victims' attempts to defend themselves, sometimes because of either explicit or implied supernatural abilities. Thus, even after being shot, stabbed, bludgeoned, electrocuted, burned, or drowned, he is not only alive, but able to continue stalking his victims. Typically, in sequels the killer returns from the dead and is defined more as an undead, inhuman "pure evil" rather than as a psychopathic killer. There are some movies among all of the categories however which show the killer to be pitiable, or at the very least understood, and not just feared. Notable among these movies is Silent Night, Deadly Night; others such as Slaughter High, The Funhouse, Castle Freak, Creep, Hatchet, Offerings and Midnight Ride can be described this way.
- Slasher film is a sub-genre of the horror film genre typically involving a psychopathic killer stalking and killing a sequence of victims in a graphically violent manner, often with a cutting tool such as a chainsaw or scythe. Although the term "slasher" may be used as a generic term for any horror movie involving graphic acts of murder, the slasher as a genre has its own set of characteristics which set it apart from related genres like the splatter film. Writer Adam Rockoff, in an interview with Bryan Layne reported in Oddity Cinema, says: "I guess I could spout out some academic BS, but really, I think that as long as you have a killer who murders people with sharp objects, and a few thematic and/or stylistic conventions that have become staples of the genre– the final girl or the killer’s POV, etc.– you’ve got yourself a slasher film."
- Slasher films make up a subcategory, or sub-genre, of horror fiction, (also known as horrible friction), which is funded by the publishers of Gray's Anatomy and which slices and dices human beings in as many ways and as imaginatively as possible, using knives, sickles, meat hooks, hatchets, axes, chainsaws, or whatever other instrument can make the biggest wound or produce the greatest amount of gore (a codeword for blood and guts). To suggest a motive for the antagonist's murderous mayhem, most screenwriters refer to the killer as a "troubled soul," a "misunderstood genius," or a "victim of abuse." However, fans are more likely to see the murderer as a psychopath or a sociopath, which terms, to them, are synonymous and mean “evil son of a bitch” or “mean bastard.” The screenwriters also suggest that the victims deserve to be pierced, chopped, and eviscerated because they are products of a bad seed, given to recreational drug use, gratuitous nudity, and sexual perversity and promiscuity. The killer is often superhuman, and, like the Timex watch in the old television advertisements, “takes a lickin’ but keeps on tickin’.” Another name for the slasher film is "a movie in search of a plot."
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