Something to remember about horror films

[fudgetusk]

The slashers don't just want to kill the kids in the films, they want to kill us too.

Deaths in such films are usually justified by the victims smoking dope, drinking beer, being a dick, shagging about.

Who here is free of these vices?

Freddy is coming for you.

[LuvablePsycho]

The slashers don't just want to kill the kids in the films, they want to kill us too.

Deaths in such films are usually justified by the victims smoking dope, drinking beer, being a dick, shagging about.

Who here is free of these vices?

Freddy is coming for you.

Honestly I've only done 1 out of 4 which is being a dick. But really who hasn't? ::big grin::

Not all of us drink beer or do dope and I'm actually still a virgin. Not that I plan to be for the rest of my life, if I ever find someone I like that I want to sleep with that's wonderful. If not I could always travel to Nevada or Amsterdam and find me a legal prostitute. ::smile::

But yeah I guess I would be the survivor in a slasher movie. And then I would get killed in one of the sequels like they always do. ::shocked::

[Dead Bad Things]

I'd be smokn' Buddha and watchin' Jerry Springer, and then schwing have a knife day...

[LuvablePsycho]

If the virgin survivor likes porn does that still make her/him a virgin? ::confused::

[Morningriser]

Has anyone ever stopped and thought that if anyone were to ever go completely nuts in your circle of friends and start killing everyone that you could very well be killed in such a way that people are in horror movies? it's fucked up and a lot more unlikely than likely to happen, but that doesn't mean it's impossible.

[LuvablePsycho]

Has anyone ever stopped and thought that if anyone were to ever go completely nuts in your circle of friends and start killing everyone that you could very well be killed in such a way that people are in horror movies? it's fucked up and a lot more unlikely than likely to happen, but that doesn't mean it's impossible.

70's/80's slasher flicks were about deformed and/or undead serial killers that can never be killed, 90's/2000's slasher movies were about creepy boyfriends and psycho best friends being the killers. ::smile::

[fudgetusk]

If the virgin survivor likes porn does that still make her/him a virgin? ::confused::

I would say the slasher would be watching you watching porn from your window. Curtains could save your life.

I wonder if you were to watch a slasher film in a slasher film, would that make you immune? The killer may like you. I always felt Cropsy took a fancy to that weedy kid in THE BURNING. Didn't kill him outright, and didn't he survive?

I seem to recall he dressed up as a killer and scared the boobs off a fit lass in the film.

Cropsy was probs "He's like me! I'll just pin his arm to the wall of a shack with my shears and let him escape somehow."

Oh God! When is the killer coming? Oh, it's just a discussion...isn't it?

[Sculpt]

The slashers don't just want to kill the kids in the films, they want to kill us too.

Deaths in such films are usually justified by the victims smoking dope, drinking beer, being a dick, shagging about.

Who here is free of these vices?

Freddy is coming for you.
Maybe the slasher killers are killing our guilt about doing all those things. Those characters get killed, our guilt dies with them, and we absolve ourselves of the guilt, or subconscious guilt, guilt we didn't even know we had? Scapegoat deaths?

[LuvablePsycho]

Personally I don't understand how the naughty things that the teenagers do in slasher movies makes them deserving of a grizzly death. I feel like murdering would be 10x more evil than having sex, drinking booze, or smoking weed.

I mean yeah it is kind of funny when the people getting killed are being real assholes but the killers are even more evil. So why does the audience end up liking the killers more?

I just don't get people. ::stick out tongue::

[fudgetusk]

Personally I don't understand how the naughty things that the teenagers do in slasher movies makes them deserving of a grizzly death. I feel like murdering would be 10x more evil than having sex, drinking booze, or smoking weed.

I mean yeah it is kind of funny when the people getting killed are being real assholes but the killers are even more evil. So why does the audience end up liking the killers more?

I just don't get people. ::stick out tongue::

Maybe horror fans aren't getting any you know what. Seeing rampant teens getting impaled is compensation.

[Bloof]

Teens usually have to sneak off somewhere "without adult supervision" to do the things you mentioned. This makes them an easier target. Its not so much what they are doing but where they are doing it.
Except for Freddy. He could get you right in the middle of a well lit classroom full of students...

[LuvablePsycho]

Teens usually have to sneak off somewhere "without adult supervision" to do the things you mentioned. This makes them an easier target. Its not so much what they are doing but where they are doing it.
Except for Freddy. He could get you right in the middle of a well lit classroom full of students...

Yeah but I always get the feeling that the people who make these movies feel like they deserve to get slaughtered for doing it hence why the goodie two shoes virgin is always the one to survive in the end, until she returns in a sequel of course.

Why do the survivors always die in a sequel? ::confused::

[Sculpt]

Yeah but I always get the feeling that the people who make these movies feel like they deserve to get slaughtered for doing it hence why the goodie two shoes virgin is always the one to survive in the end, until she returns in a sequel of course.

Why do the survivors always die in a sequel? ::confused::

i think you're forgetting the obvious, Luv. The reason the many teens having sex get killed is because the film makers know most of the ticket buyers want to see both. The film needs to show the naked ladies (check), and then show a gory kills (check). Simple as that. That's why it's made that way.

The film producers are selling those two things. There they both are. The film wasn't made to suggest to people teen sex leads to being killed by a supernatural masked killer.

Then to end the film, the last person kills the bad guy. Audiences want to like and respect the hero, so they make them the good guy/gal, which traditionally has included a pure gal, but she was also a 'good person'; and if you can throw in that last chuck of audience that wants the hero gal not 'sleeping around', then bam, you got that too.