Input from the masters...

[jessflix]

Aight, as I begin to write a revised and expanded script for the full Old Shiloh Road, I ask all you horror guru's to make clear the crap that really gets to you in slasher movies.
Good or bad.
I have a pretty good list of my own, but I'd like to find out more.
We wanna make a great old school romp through the forest bloodfest, and not fall back on the "homage" excuse for cliches'...
Lay it on me guys and gals:bow:

[woodenheart]

I like to see massive insanity. I want to killer to get aroused as he is slicing someone or mashing them with a blunt object and for him to take a few minutes after to play and touch the dead body and have him stick his hands into the wounds that he caused and take out and enjoy their insides.

[jessflix]

Sick.... in an awesome way:thumbup3:
Again, very nice Woodenheart.
Will certainly keep that in mind as I put the script together.

[Doc Awesome]

If you have a heroine I would very much prefer one that is smart and tries to actually live instead of the classic "Oh my god someone's after me let me run up stairs" or while she's running trips and falls. I can't stand that shit anymore. So if there's one thing I like to see both in my films and in others is at least make our characters a bit more smart.

Think High Tension when the killer comes in the house and the "heroine" tries to cover her trail and throw off the killer. I thought that was brilliant and fresh.

[darkoverlord]

I want a serial killer who likes to rip into someone. Not someone who is like Jason or Michael someone who is sneaky and carries out the killings have more people as suspects but no one knows who is doing the killings where the killer was never really unveiled or never seen but leaves a ton of blood and body parts in the process who leaves without a trace and adds more gore to the situation.

[Thunderstrand]

I'm with Dr. Awesome. Make your protagonist intelligent and your villian won't come off as a mindless entity with an ass load of dumb luck.
My pet peeves are the obvious classic flaws; tripping over something that isn't there, backing yourself into a painfully obvious trap out of nothing but sheer stupidity, splitting up instead of ganging up, going unarmed or under-armed, ect.
If the moron sitting behind me in theatre, who's been talking, texting his girlfriend, and bumping into the back of my chair through the whole f-in movie, can find and yell out your plot holes, you've planned out your story poorly.

[jessflix]

LOL...
Right on.
This is some great stuff.
You're all nailing what I am after.
Thanks and keep it coming:tiphat:

[KING]

I like to see massive insanity.

^This is what I like^ Just massive insanity that will fuck with your head as your watching, I love that stuff..

Dislikes ~ Survivors..

[jessflix]

:nod: YES. That's what I'm going for.
A full-tilt-boogie, no-holds-barred, vicious, no apologies, no one's safe, feel-like-you-need-a-shower-after-watching, sick and twisted ride of a movie.

[woodenheart]

:nod: YES. That's what I'm going for.
A full-tilt-boogie, no-holds-barred, vicious, no apologies, no one's safe, feel-like-you-need-a-shower-after-watching, sick and twisted ride of a movie.

Dude your my hero.

[jessflix]

LOL... :tiphat:
Thanks, I try.

[Toby]

Do what I wanna do with my stories....don't have any survivors, especially the main chick :nod:

[Dr. Phibes]

Here's my advice: all that gore means little (in terms of having a good film) if there's no tension. Be careful in building a taught, tense film. Never forget the thriller element to any good slasher. The gore is just eye candy. The tension fans the flames of emotional content: a bit of pig intestine is no substitute for high fear.

[jessflix]

Very true.
Gore is awesome... as long as it feeds to the story.
Good stuff, thanks.

[buffyslayedme717]

Just play around with the usual conventions...like if someone is being chased and runs to a car have the car actual start up right away and work perfectly fine...it's amazing how every car in horror movie never works haha

[jessflix]

True, true:nod:

[Damnd One]

How about, the killer being cunning, intelligent, and a pillar of the community. Some one who is very organized, and skilled at prolonging the suffering of his/her victim, who is an artist at Sadism, but does not show it in his normal everyday life with family and community activism.

A skilled hunter/huntress, well educated. But, lets the Hyde slip ever so lightly only the skilled can pick it up.

Now, how about the hunter being not an outcaste, but a loner by choice. He/she being one who comes from the wrong side of town, and not acceptable to the legitimate people, but fought his/her way into the social structure of either the investigative field, or journalim. One who doesn't see things as normal and would easily contribute them to conicidence, which keeps her on the outside looking in. And eventually has to accept that the only way to bring the killer down, is to become as sadistic as him/her.