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    Order of Death in the Slasher Film

    One night, me and my friends went on a long conversation on how long we would survive in a slasher film (halloween, friday 13th, those movies). We couldn't really figure out the stereotypes of who dies when in a slasher flick.

    I'm fairly sure it always starts with either a random extra person who isn't a main character or the 'funny' guy of the group. I also know the survivor is usually a virgin girl and usually a guy. The survivor girl usually doesn't know the guy much but they share a connection that is found throughout the film and they both come out alive. And everyone knows there's a couple who f**k and die, but I am confused on the order of death in an average horror film.

    I'm sure someone on this forum has picked this up from watching so many of these movies, and I was just wondering if anyone could lay it out from first to last, using the stereotypes of the characters (i.e. virgin, stoner, jock, funny guy, etc.)

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    Pretty simple really -- the druggies and sex addicts are usually the first ones to go. The annoying ones usually stick around until the mid-mark and get the most violent deaths. The "average nice guy/girl" is almost always the survivor

    It also depends on the decade the film came out in. The 80's is much more predictable and usually throws in a random death in the beginning before introducing the lead characters.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FrighT MasteR View Post
    It also depends on the decade the film came out in. The 80's is much more predictable and usually throws in a random death in the beginning before introducing the lead characters.
    Yeah the 80's was pretty much what I was shooting for. But, yeah, I figured it would be simple, I just haven't watched slasher flicks (let alone horror flicks) in quite awhile. I just recently started watching them again.

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    You can't forget about the black guy that always dies first. :starefreak:

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    That's actually one of the cliches that has been changed over the years. Now the minorities tend to last a bit longer, but are usually resorted to simply being the comedy relief, I.E. horny dork or stoner of the group.

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    Quote Originally Posted by xflost View Post
    I was just wondering if anyone could lay it out from first to last, using the stereotypes of the characters (i.e. virgin, stoner, jock, funny guy, etc.)

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    or the weird old guys who warns the youth that they are going to die usually get killed

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    According to Joe Bob Briggs the girls who wear too much makeup or not enough are also on the list.

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    This is why they're remaking SCREAM, cause kids don't remember Craven and William jacking off to this kind of dialogue.

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    Quote Originally Posted by choptop2 View Post
    This is why they're remaking SCREAM, cause kids don't remember Craven and William jacking off to this kind of dialogue.
    They're remaking scream? That's ridiculous!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Luris Blear View Post
    The mentally unstable / probably abused-as-a-child nympho tends to go in an interesting manner.
    Best friends/love interests tend to be the last to go. Have to have a catalyst for the final survivor to go over the edge.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LadyFrankenstein View Post
    According to Joe Bob Briggs the girls who wear too much makeup or not enough are also on the list.
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    I remember when he had Linnea Quigley on his (The Movie Channel) show and kept playing the clip of her dancing naked in ROTLD

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    damn nice ones ><

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    I think if your handicapped or in a wheelchair your prob done for in a slasher. TCM is the only one I can reference.

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    wasnt there a guy in a wheel chair in one of the Friday the 13th movies? He died. Oh and there was Nightmare on Elm Street part 3, the D&D kid in the wheelchair died in it too...

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