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Babadook = awesome.

It Follows = POS.

Not referenced, author unknown. So you consider that an authoritative source? :hmmm:

Well have you asked the majority of film fans and/or horror fans? Did you do a survey or something? Please, post us the results. :thumbup:

This is not a democracy. :outtahere:

:outtahere:

Why not?

That would make a great hypothesis, actually.

That Halloween from 1978 is a slasher movie.

Prove/disprove.

I'm trying to make it as simple as I can, but I acknowledge that I fail sometimes...

The point is to think outside the box. You can go with conventional thinking on this matter. It's easy,...

Kerswell, J.A. (2012). The slasher movie book. Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Review Press. pp. 70–71. ISBN 1556520107.

The POV shots of the killer killing his victims came from that movie.. it didn't invent the POV shot, though.

Ok, I get your point. Everything's a slasher. Who cares what has influenced and came before. Thirteen Women from 1932 is a slasher as well. Why not? Throw in Peeping Tom and Alfred Hitchcock's...

There are a few reasons why I don't consider Halloween a slasher. Mainly because most slasher movies don't have a Loomis type character and they usually have much more blood and gore.

But there's...

Those aren't slashers. Horror films, yes. I keep telling you, Friday the 13th is mainly responsible for the slasher as we know it today.

Bay of Blood - 1971 (Italian giallo)
Black Christmas -...

Slasher is a uniquely American genre, though. It's pretty much taking a certain formula and repeating it ad infinitum. Not that there aren't non-American slasher movies, but it all started with...

What about Black Christmas? Oh, it wasn't a big hit at the American box office. Only difference.

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What? Slasher is a genre. Halloween takes from Psycho, Italian giallo flicks and other films that were made before. Friday the 13th is the first slasher movie. It was an important movie in the...

Not really.




Halloween is not a slasher movie either.



It's quite obvious if you watch them back to back.

I don't mind 'homage' to old movies. House of the Devil for example (except for the ending). The Maniac remake. Just don't make it derivative.

This movie is derivative of John Carpenter's...

She should have fed it cake. :whew:

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If any of you can come up with a better ending to The Babadook I'd like to read it. :straightface:

We discussed this in the Babadook thread.. The ending makes perfect sense.

Thanks, but I'll pass. I hate hardcoded subs.

Still waiting for this to hit the torrents. :soadeto:

I already started a thread for this: http://www.upcominghorrormovies.com/uhm/showthread.php?54939-It-Follows-%282014%29

Looks interesting.

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For 19-year-old Jay, fall should be about school, boys and weekends out at the lake. But after a seemingly innocent...