What the hell happened to good slasher movies?!?
The case in point which sparked this post was urban legends 2: final cut, i was sitting watching it and ,scine taking 2 years of film class at college, ive found myself analizing films more than i should which often ruins a film for me, but in this case i just couldnt shake off the really pathetic writing, and not pathetic as an insult i mean pathetic like it could be arsed to try.
Now im something of an amatuer film maker myself, stress the word somethign here folks, so i pretty much left halfway through since i pretty much guessed the ending and didnt really care if i was right or not as i was on a tangent at the time and sat down in fornt of my pc and got to writing a rough outline for a script.
So what would i make a slasher film like?
A:dont make the killer wear a mask, just make him some long haired, bearded wacko
B:Make him fucking RUN!!! - sure, meichal myers can pull it off, hes clinically insane, but just some random guy whos angry at the world and got hold of a knife? hwy the frigg isnt he running like the clappers after the victim instead of letting them narrowly get away till they trip.
C: and why do they allways trip?!?
Theres so much more i could write about whats wrong with this tired subgenre, but the long and short is it needs some reinvigoration, not a bunch of myers clones, what about a quiet mountain town under seige from a pyscho with survival training or an army vet or something, evadeing the police and setting traps and stuff, isolating them by cutting the phone lines ect and wrecking the cars, its just basic writing, isolation, vunerability, supposed invulnerablility of your enemy and the mystery of why the killer is doing this, just takes these facts and craft a script to your own suitings, theres so many possible ways to do a slasher film that arent a bunch of horny, drunk teenagers getting picked off one by one by a relative of the protagonist.
what about a psychotic college proffessor, get a bad grade in his class and hell get you at night, theres like 4 ideas in this article to use, i mean this is a rant but damn guys and gals, speaking from one writer to any of you writers reading this, we can do better.
Anyone else care to rant on the topic then post a comment, im done, back to my own script....
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