Forgotten Bad Slasher Movies

M.10rda · June 21, 2024, 03:30:00 PM

I watched VISITING HOURS a couple years ago and wasn't super-impressed. Shatner unfortunately is sidelined for all the action. Michael Ironside does make for a really vicious and loathsome murderer, though.

Trevor · June 21, 2024, 03:41:51 PM

Quote from: M.10rda on June 21, 2024, 03:30:00 PMI watched VISITING HOURS a couple years ago and wasn't super-impressed. Shatner unfortunately is sidelined for all the action. Michael Ironside does make for a really vicious and loathsome murderer, though.

Especially when he self harms with that broken beer bottle 😳😳

bob · June 22, 2024, 03:54:41 PM

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M.10rda · June 23, 2024, 08:09:43 AM

Yeah, I think I've discussed HALLOWEEN V around here before. It ain't the first two but I watched it about 5 years ago - in October, during the Brett Kavanagh hearings - and....... it's aged well! I think it holds up much better than part 4, and specifically as a result of A.) the three sympathetic, well-played female leads and B.) just how relentlessly and despicably mistreated they are by nearly EVERY toxic male onscreen....... including an especially sadistic Michael and even a completely deranged, totally out-of-line Loomis. As a result, I walked away just haaaaaaaating the men and feeling exceptional empathy for the women, and - that's a good look for a circa-'90 slasher or even a slasher today!

zombie no.one · June 23, 2024, 10:35:47 AM

I don't think anything in the official HALLOWEEN franchise will ever be 'forgotten'... fairly high profile stuff

M.10rda · June 23, 2024, 10:47:51 AM

Fair point - but I only ever hear or read part 5 get negged, and weirdly part 4 gets perpetually praised. So, critically, 5 seems "forgotten", at least realistically.

I think 4 is completely idiotic after a strong opening. In a genre that is beyond saturated w/ people choosing highly illogical moments to have sex, few sex scenes make as little sense as the one in 4. Just sayin'.

RCMerchant · June 23, 2024, 12:27:35 PM

As far as the HALLOWEEN series, for me the only good ones are the first and third. The rest are really lame.
Frankly, I was never a fan of any so called " slasher films". After a while they got repititious and boring.
I can't think of even one FRIDAY THE 13th movie that I really enjoyed more than on a "ho hum" basis.

Trevor · June 23, 2024, 01:42:41 PM

Quote from: RCMerchant on June 23, 2024, 12:27:35 PMI can't think of even one FRIDAY THE 13th movie that I really enjoyed more than on a "ho hum" basis.

The first Friday The 13th was banned here so I didn't get to see it until about 1991.

zombie no.one · June 23, 2024, 02:22:08 PM

I really like most of them tbh.

part 6 tries to do the 'self aware' clever, borderline parody thing and is just annoying imo (although many F13 fans say it's their favourite out of the sequels)

the only one I flat out despise is JASON GOES TO HELL.

I rewatched JASON X the other week. holds up pretty well I thought... Jase in space

RCMerchant · June 23, 2024, 03:37:38 PM

^ JASON GOES TO HELL was the only one I liked! I mean, the hocky mask s**t was getting old. True, it did rip off the HIDDEN... (a far superior film than any of those combined.)

zombie no.one · June 23, 2024, 03:55:24 PM

Quote from: RCMerchant on June 23, 2024, 03:37:38 PM^ JASON GOES TO HELL was the only one I liked!

haha... great minds think unalike, as they nearly say.

M.10rda · June 24, 2024, 08:13:09 PM

I am one of those "fans" who think F13:6 is far and away the best in the series. I also like JASON X mostly unironically. The others all have some guilty pleasure elements but generally I find them pretty dire as "cinema". MANHATTAN has to be the worst. Maybe. It's a close race.

If you feel like you hate slashers (RCM specifically) or hate F13 films particularly, I'll repeat a recommendation from the "Recent Theatrical Viewings" thread: check out IN A VIOLENT NATURE, a far better film than any F13 has ever been or could ever be, as well as (I think) one of the best "slashers" ever made - easily in the original TEXAS CHAINSAW league, if you consider TCM a "slasher".

claws · June 26, 2024, 01:34:50 PM

Junior (1985) aka Hot Water

Not really a slasher, but it has slasher-like moments. And, not really "forgotten" because horror fans always mention this one when it comes to horror never released to DVD or Blu-ray. Junior is a sleazy Canadian terror exploitation flick that should've been made in the 1970s. The VHS was trying to sell it as a Texas Chain Saw kind of movie.

Out of the Body (1989)

Stylish but bad Australian horror about a floating psychic psycho killer murdering women to remove their eyes. Oddly watchable.

RCMerchant · June 26, 2024, 05:38:31 PM

^ JUNIOR! I have that on VHS!