Eli Osman's Top 10 Favorite Slasher Films: Part III
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I know, you trusty readers have been waiting and waiting for Friday to come. Your minds have been unable to focus all week, your school/job/parenting has suffered. But now the wait is over. Today is Slasher Friday or whatever. Its time to finally finish my top 10 favorite slasher films with my final two slasher films. The anticipation has been greater then I would have ever thought. I am not saying there has been mass chaos in the streets because of the demand of Slasher Friday, but a small gas station in Kansas was looted. So, I apologize for your wait.Die Darkman Die
2. Black Christmas (1974) Directed by Bob Clark
Summary According to imdb: The story is simple: right before Christmas break, an unseen psycho sneaks into the attic of a Canadian sorority house, menacing the girls with obscene phone calls, and starts to kill them one by one.
Everyone always says Halloween (1978) is the first modern slasher film, but I say Black Christmas is. Halloween does have its place as the most important slasher film, but Black Christmas is perfected the style before John Carpenters classic. The creepy stalking POV shots, dangerous holiday, the gruesome deaths, the hot chicks are all done to perfection. While Halloween relies almost entirely on suspense, Black Christmas relies on realistic characters you care about, creepy atmosphere, and slight dark humor. Instead of just surprising you with scares. Bob Clark makes you care about the characters actually hoping they live and the killer is one of the most disturbing killers in slasher film history and you never see him. This film rakes on high on my favorite horror movies in general. Every Christmas Eve, I watch this movie. If you love movies and never seen this film, shame on you.
Summary According to imdb: The story is simple: right before Christmas break, an unseen psycho sneaks into the attic of a Canadian sorority house, menacing the girls with obscene phone calls, and starts to kill them one by one.
Everyone always says Halloween (1978) is the first modern slasher film, but I say Black Christmas is. Halloween does have its place as the most important slasher film, but Black Christmas is perfected the style before John Carpenters classic. The creepy stalking POV shots, dangerous holiday, the gruesome deaths, the hot chicks are all done to perfection. While Halloween relies almost entirely on suspense, Black Christmas relies on realistic characters you care about, creepy atmosphere, and slight dark humor. Instead of just surprising you with scares. Bob Clark makes you care about the characters actually hoping they live and the killer is one of the most disturbing killers in slasher film history and you never see him. This film rakes on high on my favorite horror movies in general. Every Christmas Eve, I watch this movie. If you love movies and never seen this film, shame on you.
1. Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) Directed by Joseph Zito
Summary According to imdb: After the confrontation with Chris, Jason presumed dead, is taken to the Wessex County Morgue. There he escapes killing an attendant and a nurse, making his way back to Crystal Lake Camp. Six teenagers rent a cabin next to the Jarvis' in Crystal Lake. Soon Jason finds his way to eliminate all who trespasses his way, but not for long. There are two survivors left, a girl and her little brother, Tommy Jarvis. The final battle will define their destiny, be prepared for the Final Chapter.This was the first slasher I had ever seen. I was around five or six years old and I fell in love with this movie. Its has the best gore, characters, humor, dances, and Jason then all the other Friday the 13th films. The final scene and death of Jason is amazing. Tom Savini came back for this film and blew it out of the water. It also stars Corey Feldman and features Chrispin Glover. COREY FELDMAN. CHRISPIN GLOVER. Directed by Joseph Zito of The Prowler and Missing in Action fame. I still remember watching the old VHS tape of the film taped from HBO. I watch it over and over again. I actually have a Jason Vorhees tattoo I got on Friday the 13th last year. To most people this probably not the best slasher film and even I will admit its not the best made film ever, but this film was a big part of my childhood. While most kids were obsessing on Star Wars and I don't know Muppet Babies maybe, I was watching this film.
And let me get something straight, I am not really a hardcore horror film junkie. I love all films. To be honest I love westerns the must. Westerns have the biggest influence on me as a filmmaker or wanna-be filmmaker. Slasher films are just a genre of films, I grew up watching and learned to appreciate what they have done to cinema. Slasher films may be cheap rip-off movies made only to make money. But they form a unique style and started a film movement. In a normal film standards these films are terrible, but no one will admit they are boring.
Honorable Mentions
- Halloween (1978) - Don't get me wrong I like this movie and I appreciate what the film was done for the slasher film genre, but its simple not my favorite. No where near the best John Carpenter film.
- Sleepaway Camp (1983) - Has by far the greatest ending of all slasher films.
- Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) - Greatest non-slasher sequel to a slasher film. Stars the great actor Tom Atkins, who I will be making a film with this August. Also I did a scene from this movie in an acting class.
- April Fool's Day (1986) - Just a plain old fun slasher.
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1972) - I don't really count this film as a slasher, that's way its not on the list.
- Alone in the Dark (1982) - Jack Palance and Donald Pleasence is amazing in this film.
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