5 search results for: top 5 slashers
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Cert: 18 • US: 84 min • United Film Distribution • November 18, 1983
Halloween is THE slasher film. It is suspenseful, and full of horror rather than gore.
Walter’s Top 5 Slashers: #2 Sleepaway CampOctober 28, 2013, 11:36 am“Using odd angle shots and dark lighting, Carpenter created a truly haunting atmosphere not seen since the days of Alfred Hitchcock. The truly frightening parts of the film aren’t those that necessarily involve the killings, but those parts which focus on the cold way in which Michael stalks his victims.”
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Cert: 18 • US: 84 min • United Film Distribution • November 18, 1983
Sleepaway Camp is a grainy, realistic slasher movie with strong dialogue and understated, believable gore.
Walter’s Top 5 Slashers: #3 Texas Chain Saw MassacreOctober 25, 2013, 2:53 pm“Sleepaway Camp remains a legendary film amongst slasher buffs for its gory effects, grainy film style, haunting soundtrack, and one of the most surprising endings in the genre. “
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Cert: 18 • US: 120 min • Bryanston Pictures • 1974
Tobe Hooper’s stark, gritty vision remains a landmark amongst slasher films, establishing many trademarks of the genre.
Walter’s Top 5 Slashers: #4 ScreamOctober 17, 2013, 11:03 am“Sitting through the film, you think you’ve just witnessed a blood bath, but in reality, there is very little on-screen gore. Hooper used atmosphere to create the illusion of blood.”
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Cert: 18 • US: 111 min • Dimension Films • 1996
Scream remains a landmark in the history of American gore. It revitalized a horror genre that the public thought was dead and buried.
Walter’s Top 5 Slashers: #5 Silent Night, Deadly NightOctober 11, 2013, 1:32 pm“Working in a post-1980’s atmosphere, Craven knew that the traditional-style slasher film had been done to death. After strings of sequels and direct-to-video releases, the American public was bored and the slasher genre looked to be a thing of the past.”
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Cert: 18 • US: 79 min • TriStar Pictures • 1984
Silent Night, Deadly Night is a slasher flick in which the killer has a real backstory.
“Knowing the trauma that has soaked most of his life, we empathise with him. Do we justify his violent rampage? Not at all, but we do understand why he has become what he is.”