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devilsskettle · 2 years ago

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sorry for being an anti-modern media curmudgeon on main but just something about the way there seems to be a popular public consensus to look down on low budget slasher films of the 70s & 80s followed by a shift now to turn the sequels into big budget blockbusters that flatten everything unique to the slasher genre so that they can make movies that are comfortable for them to make — movies that look the same, sound the same, feel the same as any other modern action movie. and then they reduce the terminology coined to describe slasher genre conventions into these over-simplistic concepts no longer grounded in any of the films but just pop culture imagination (i.e. “final girl” means whatever now basically lol) and apply them to the horror genre as a whole. and now everybody’s a fucking expert on classic slasher movies because they’ve seen scream. this is a dead dead dead dead genre and we’re just dragging the corpse around. shaking filmmakers by the shoulders why does your movie have a budget!!! where’s the innovation

#actually it’s not a dead dead dead dead genre. that’s a bit too dramatic #but the slasher genre simply doesn’t exist the way that it used to #which is good in some ways actually but now it’s meta meta meta all the time #everybody’s gotta be self aware now. what about making something genuine instead of sarcastic though #like why do you want to make a horror movie. justify that choice to me.#do you really want to be making a horror movie or do you want to be making an action movie?#or do you want to be able to say you’ve worked with jamie lee curtis lol #i actually can’t say anything about the new halloween movies even though that’s what’s got me thinking about this #i’m not a particularly big fan of the original film and i haven’t seen any of the other ones #(except season of the witch which doesn’t count obviously)#but it’s like all of a sudden halloween isn’t trashy now????#or is it and i’m just missing something????#can we just admit that we enjoy slasher movies or what

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