Fun Slashers for a Fun NightI'm having a movie night tomorrow. It's starting at 6PM,
 

I'm having a movie night tomorrow. It's starting at 6PM, and hopefully lasting until 3AM. That's 9 solid hours of feature film fun; give or take. The theme at hand: Slashers of the 70's & 80's. I'm not talking Halloween, Friday the 13th or A Nightmare on Elm Street. My audience is too familiar with these.

The list of available titles are as follows:

The Burning (Uncut) 1h 30m
Re-Animator (Uncut) 1h 30m
Slumber Party Massacre 1h 10m
Maniac! 1h 30m
Prom Night 1h 30m
Demons 1h 30m

I haven't seen any of these listed titles. Only the trailers. What are your opinions?

I'm most interested in... The Burning, Re-Animator and Slumber Party Massacre. Is Demons a gore-fest? I though it was, but the trailer doesn't even look horror-ish. Prom Night also looks quite good.

What's the best way to organize these?

I was thinking...

6:00 - 7:30: The Burning
8:00 - 9:30: Maniac!
10:00 - 11:30: Prom Night
12:00 - 1:30: Slumber Party Massacre
2:00 - 3:30: Re-Animator

PS. Boy, the trailers for these are classics. They are so much better then those fake trailers created for Grindhouse (with the exception of Thanksgiving... please make it.) I honestly thought those trailers were comedied-up, but honestly... I laughed my ass off more watching these ACTUAL trailers. If only today's cinema was as fine as this. And Edgar Wright's trailer was so based off of the original The Burning trailer. I hope I'm not the last to realize this...

I must admit I've never seen The Burning.

I'd start with Slumber Party Massacre, because it's silly and fun, followed by Prom Night which is more of the same, but with a more coherent story.

Demons is gory, weird and awesome, but in that "Italian" way that many won't appreciate. Re-Animator is the gem of the bunch. A legitimately great, gory & funny horror flick that never disappoints. Place it early enough in your line-up that everyone sees it.

Maniac is cool, but kind of rough and I'd save it for the end, for the real gorehounds...this is a marathon you're sharing with others, right?

My suggestion - start off with Prom Night, then Slumber Party Massacre. Both are almost same IMO, but Prom Night is a better slasher so it will help you get off on the right foot.

Next, The Burning, followed by The Re-Animator. The Burning is another solid slasher (infamous for its raft scene), and then The Re-Animator will be great to cover the 3 slashers-in-a-row gap, and would be a welcome change with its black humor and gore.

Finish it off with Demons, which is a real frightfest (along the lines of Dawn of the Dead, but with demons) and Maniac, the toughest of all the above-mentioned to watch. Its a ruthless movie, so it would be safe to watch it when you would like to finish off the night on a hard-hitting note.

Happy viewing!

Yes, a handful of friends will be coming over for this. Most of them are big gore-hounds, but have never even heard of many of these titles. I'm sure Re-Animator will be the fan favourite in this group, considering most of them adore Evil Dead.

Since both of you pretty much agree on the order, I think it's safe to say that it works. I'll probably watch Prom Night first, and cut Demons for tonight. Not enough time.

Its your choice, Josh...but I would suggest cutting Slumber Party Massacre out for tonight. Demons is a great movie, with plenty of gore and full of fright and campy moments. I am sure you and your friends would love it.

Re-arranged order -

- Prom Night
- The Burning
- The Re-Animator
- Demons
- Maniac


That would be my recommendation.:)

That would be my recommedation as well, except I personally wouldn't bother with Prom Night, because it bores the heck out of me. But others seem to like it and it is better than Slumber Party Massacre, so I guess I would show it first. I admit I have never seen Maniac, though it has been on my to be watched list for awhile now.....(and yes, V, I know, I KNOW :p ;) ).

I totally agree with V on this one that lineup would make everyone happy.

I just went to start my Prom Night DVD and... well, it doesn't work. The DVD player doesn't even detect the disc. It just keeps loading and then reads "Disc Error." So much for a brand new DVD... wonder if I can return it; since it's opened.

I guess the new line-up will be exactly what you guys agree on above (with Prom Night replaced). Sounds great; wasn't sure what to expect from Demons, but since that brief explanation I'm eager to watch it now.

- Slumber Party Massacre
- The Burning
- The Re-Animator
- Demons
- Maniac

It's amazingly, awesomely bad...you'll love it! I saw it in a theater recently and it was a great experience catching it with a rowdy, drunken crowd.

Tell us how it goes and what your friends think of the lineup and movies.

Everyone (including myself) loved Slumber Party Massacre. We just finished The Burning (taking a break now and waiting for pizza.) Mixed opinions on that one. One of my friends brought up the topic of why so many slashers took place at summer camp... and when I mentioned Sleepaway Camp 2 & 3, no one even knew they existed! Hell, they only remembered a brief section of the first (when the kid gets the ass in the face... and, well, the ending...) So I told them that we had to do this again and watch those two sequels, because they are a riot (I don't have them on DVD so we couldn't catch them tonight.) But, yeah... The Burning. Yawns happened... near the ending. Everyone kind of agreed that it took itself too seriously... We managed a synchronized 'jump' during one scene (forget which....) and we pretty much agreed that the effects were really good (one mentioned that they were disappointed which the burnt face after all the hype in the introduction.) EVERYONE loved the finger-cuts. Though I kind of hyped them up, as well as myself, by mentioning how infamous the raft scene was (which I hadn't seen before)... kind of a let down considering what we all imagined. The girl in the group has a thing for Glazer... no comment. ("With a name like that, you think his sex scene would be a little more... explosive.")

As soon as the pizza gets here, we're off to watch Re-Animator. :)

cool

let us know what they all think of Re-Animator!!!!

Awesome thanks for the up to date info man. Seems like your all having a blast!

Good lin-up. Sounds like a lot of fun.



but nowhere did I see mention of beer.

now unless you and your friends are underage.....thats just unacceptable.

Haha, a mixture of 17 and 18. I'm not a drinker (like... nothing at all), and most of my friends aren't either (most only casually/socially... though the chick is bordering on alcoholic :p) Legal age is 19, but does that really matter? I swear, my parents would buy me beer if I'd tell them I'd drink it. They're concerned. Haha.

So...

Everyone thought Re-Animator was the gem of the night. As the disc began, trailers ran - and I'm a fan of trailers, so I grabbed the remote before anyone could skip them. Luckily, they thought it was worth it when the trailer for Night of the Living Dorks was shown.

As for the movie itself... everyone was transfixed. With smiles on their faces throughout. One pointed out that they didn't know gore could be done so well when this movie was made (...it isn't that old... is it?) and everyone easily agreed that is was some of the best they've seen. The girl in the group has seen Beyond Re-Animator, and told us that it was really budget and seemingly dubbed (and something about a rat and a penis?... she tried demonstrating with her fingers...). Is that true? What about the film that comes in between?

After Re-Animator, we took a lengthy break and just chatted. One of my friends had never played Silent Hill, so I whipped out the third (easily my favourite) and we sat in the pitch black, with the sound cranked... navigating through that hellish carnival. Everyone thought it was amazing (as in, actually terrifying), but we didn't play very long. Just up to the part where you meet those large-handed monsters. I leant it out to him, and hopefully he finds it just as great as I did. Happy Birthday... *shivers*

After that, at nearly 2AM... we sat down and decided whether to watch Demons, or Maniac. I had the DVD for Demons, and... ahem... got Maniac another way... so we decided on Demons

The girl pointed out that this was exactly how Beyond was... with the dubbed-like quality. Is Demons dubbed? If so, why doesn't the DVD mention this or offer alternate tracks? (Or did I miss this? o_O) I must agree though, it certainly seemed funky. As for the actual movie... well, I'll put off judgement... until I see the whole thing. It was pretty good, for what I remember and seemingly just getting better (my eyes were hazy... in and out... so I couldn't even tell you if what I'm remembering of it was the actual movie, or a dream I created...)

We got turned on about half-way through and had a 3-guy 1-girl gangbang.

Okay, so not really. I actually fell asleep. Fuck, I'm a loser when it comes to staying up. Another guy fell asleep too, so, I wasn't alone. No one finished the whole movie, though the girl claimed the DVD and said she was going to finish it up tonight (I worked...)

I woke up at at 5AM to informercials. INFOMERCIALS. Not a fun way to wake up, and definitely nightmarish... just not in the nightmarish way that I had hoped to spend the night. I think it was for some pocket-sewing machine. WTF.

I'm setting up another one sometime soon. Sleepaway Camp 2 & 3, and Night of the Living Dorks - if I can find it (haven't seen it anywhere...) Really looking forward to doing this again. :)

Yeah, it's dubbed and there are no alternate tracks. Italian cinema from the 60s-early 80s was primarily shot MOS which means without live sound...it's way cheaper and with actors from Italy, France, Spain, U.S., Germany, etc it was an easy way to get around the language barriers.

All the dialog and sound effects were added after the fact. Sometimes it's done well (Once Upon A Time In The West) and sometimes it isn't (Demons)

That's cool you had fun.

Tell us about the next one when you have it.