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Published: 2020-05-09 16:04:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 14951; Favourites: 175; Downloads: 13
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Okay so, I've seen a lot of people calling every horror movie character for a "slasher", despite the horror characternot being a slasher at all. I think the first time I experienced that was when someone told me their favorite
slasher character was Samara Morgan and I just looked at them confused and all "um, whut?"
I don't know how it started, but I think kinda get why people do that because
it is more easier to just call them all slasher, but it's just not correct.
Horror has many subgenres and slasher is just one of them (despite it being extremely popular)
so calling another horror character a slasher, is like ignore the subgenre the character is from.
I'm probably too unecessary passionate about this, but I just don't think you should call every horror character
a slasher XD
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That is true, but there are some movies that clearly AREN'T slasher movies, so it's still not right to call them that.
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Bootleg Samara: So you've chosen death!
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It wasn't really a meeting, but more a gathering, but yeah still pointless XD
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I see why you think that, and I don't think you're wrong, you can argue it's
a supernatural slasher movie. Somtimes movies tend to mix subgenres together,
so they're not always necessary one.
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YEEES I heard that too and it's really a shame because I would've love to see that! D:>
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i love how sadako is so offended and clears it up for them.....
there are actually 8 slasher films in japan
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She's never been this insulted in her death life.
Oh really? I actually didn't know, can you send me a link to them, or tell me their titles? XD
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www.google.com/search?q=japane…
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I know of a movie based on the Kuchisake onna that was something of a slasher movie, it also got a prequel.
there are a few different localized titles: Carved: The Slit Mouthed Woman
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia…
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Ooh I didn't know that one was a slasher,
the more you know.
But I've watched and thinking back I can see some slasher tropes.
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Except that Chucky has actually referred to himself as a slasher, so...
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It didn't start out as a slasher movie, hence why I've made him say "(not my first movie)".
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I'm confused, how is the first Child's Play not a slasher ?
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It's more a supernatural/psychological horror than a slasher.
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He's a veeeeeeeeery great slasher ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Hehe thank you <3 Freddy being the mature one out of them all for once.
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can go back even further, there are these movies from the 50's and 60's that feel like "proto-slasher" movies. Where they are sort of a murder mystery except the audience knows who the killer is as we watch them going around killing people and waiting for the characters in the movie to figure which of them is the killer.
a lot of the tropes (good and bad) we associate as "slasher films" were popularized by movies like Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Halloween; but at the same time that's just because a few franchises came out that kept dishing out movies like every year and really over did those elements to the point a ton of horror movies just copied it because its the formula that seemed to be working.
for like a decade then we started to mock it.
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That's intersting, I actually didn't know about that, I just know that Italian Giallo horror
also contributed to inspire the modern slasher subgenre.
Yeah it doesn't surprise me the subgenre has become its own worst enemy.
But still enjoyable to watch.
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"Contrary to popular belief,horror films are not cheap to make! Hey,has anyone checked out the price of ketchup lately? Man,it would be cheaper to use real blood!"
---the director of Arbor Day,MAD magazine's all-purpose slasher movie parody.
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He was watching a slasher movie when this took place.
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Okay that’s a good excuse
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Norman Bates: "Actually, I'm sort of considered a slasher since my movie started the genre..."
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Giallo horror: "I think I deserve credit for influencing slashers"
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What about Black Christmas (1974) though it came out two months after Texas Chainsaw Massacre, it does have a pretty good slasher vibe
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I guess even with "Black Christmas", "Halloween" is still concidered the movie that introduced the core
slasher tropes we know today.
But yeah it's definitly not the first slasher movie.
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Yep. I do like "Halloween" but I have seen other movies that came out before that should get more recognition
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