So I saw that Peacock is doing a Friday the 13th prequel. Aside from the fact that prequels/remakes/reboots are being done to death and prequels are annoying since they seem to be a tool of the woke showrunner to show a stunning and brave woman was the true hero (Spock having a never mentioned foster sister in Discovery who was a big influence) I think you could do something interesting like maybe that area had some ancient Indian curse or something.
I’m assuming it will be the usual current year programming set in the past but looks like modern day NYC. Also I see Slashers get attacked by the usual Gen z or Millennial critics
While I’m at it check out the Friday the 13th show from late 80s/early 90s. All episodes are on YouTube. Have it on my list to binge since it’s been at least 15 years since I’ve seen it
God I wish we could just have regular slasher movies again. Just something simple and easy where I don't need to be too angrily shouting at the screen about how stupid it is.
Instead its either a drawn out allegory for racism or homophobia or the like, or literally designed to be porn for fucked up women (Terrifier).
Horror movie directors are some of the most progressive people out there. Chances are your favorite horror movie has progressive messaging in it.
My favorite is Funny Games which has a subversive but very not progressive message in it, other than maybe "rich people are kinda easy to trick with unflinching politeness."
But that was also made by an small time German guy in the 90s to literally shit on all other horror movies in a "fuck you" manner instead of Scream's "ha ha we called out the trope!" one.
I think Funny Games is suppose to be an attack on the audience that enjoys horror movie.
It absolutely is. There is an entire section with characters philosophically musing that to characters in a movie their reality is just as real as ours once you've created their world in your mind, and thereby how evil it is to get off on watching them suffer and die. Its deliberately designed to cuck you out of every type of enjoyment you can get watching a horror movie.
And progressives are the exact type who spend all day fantasizing about violence against those they hate, its why, by your own admission, they make up most of horror creators.
I haven’t seen the second and third terrifiers. Not worth it?
I wasn't a fan, for the reason listed. Almost every factor of it seemed directly designed to appeal to the female audience, and I have met more than a handful of women who admit to being very turned on by many scenes. The second movie even introduces his own little not-Harley Quinn for them to self-insert in.
Which, no hate, everyone deserves their own original IPs pandering to them if they want it. But people treat it as the masterpiece of the genre without question, when it has caveats. And to some it still might be, but that's my opinion.
Though for your question, I think objectively the second one is the best by far and worth your time to see if it appeals to you more than me. It has a much higher budget and production behind it to amp it up from the original, while is still early in the "magical demon shit" elements that the third amps up.
I wish we just had more masculine slasher films. We just don't get them.
I loved Silent Rage for that reason. We actually had a competent hero fighting against an unstoppable monster. Even though Chuck Norris said he wasn't going to do those kind of films again (though he still kind of did with Hero and the Terror, but it was far more campy than Silent Rage), I still think it's one of his best because it's different from everything else out there.
The thing I found was that masculine, competent leads in slasher/horror films raise the bar of quality tenfold, because you're not dealing with a stupid character doing stupid things that frustrates the viewer. You actually WANT the hero to win.
But these movies are in such short supply.
Manhunter/Silence of the Lambs would basically be the high-brow auteur versions of that concept, but it's hard for me to think of others.
I suppose Vampires sort of fits the bill, and that's easily what makes it one of the best in the genre. Psycho Cop also falls into that category, the first one was decent, the second one was.... ehh.... loved the concept, hated what they did to Bruce Campbell in it.
Split/Second had the potential to be a classic but its story was all over the place and the ending was pure trash.
The Collector/The Collection I suppose could fall into that category, and I liked the concept and execution for the most part, same with No One Lives (thought that one was actually pretty cool), as well as Nature of the Beast (which is probably one of the very best slasher/psycho-thrillers out there).
But yeah, you're right... I wish we could get some good slasher films that weren't either grindhouse-torture porn, progressive subversion, or a mix of the two.