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avenger00soul 01-13-2004 12:21 PM

Rule breakers
 
Any one seen any flicks where they take genre conventions and destroy them?

~Possible spoilers~

For example: In Black Christmas the first character killed is the virgin. And in The Blob they graphically depict the death of a child. Also, in Psycho, the main character is killed in the middle of the movie.

devilsbackbone 01-13-2004 12:26 PM

what? you cant kill the virgin first, the virgin never dies! how did that start anyways? although i never believed it, but its funny in movies like scary movie 1 & 2!! but in a sence its a good thing because whats the point of being a good director if you never challange the rules or make up your own? i like directors who arent afraid to question authority(so to speak)!!!! :D

avenger00soul 01-13-2004 12:29 PM

Yeah, the first time I saw Black Christmas I was really thrown for a loop. Didn't expect them to kill the virgin first. And the heroine of the film was pregnant!! Bob Clark really surprised me...for the good.

allmykids 01-13-2004 03:31 PM

I can't remember the name of the movie but the killer was killing only virgins, that's why i remember what the movie is about . i remember thinking WHAT!! that never happens.

meetthecreeper 01-13-2004 03:56 PM

Correct me if I am wrong, but wasnt Fri the 13th the first movie to have the serial killer be female? Maybe it wasnt, but it was the first thing that popped in my head. I know the first time I saw it I thought that it was cool the killer was the mother and then I remember thinking well who the hell else would it have been.

Ritualistic 01-14-2004 01:19 PM

Rules sux.. so I love it when they break them.. :D

Now when Scream first came out to theaters... and Drew got killed at the beginning I was thinking she was about to wake up from a dream or something.. and then it just went on.. I was thinking holy shit they just killed Drew.... woooooooohooooooooooooo!!!!

swiftdeath 01-14-2004 05:52 PM

I remember that part in The Blob.

Dr.Kelvinstein 01-14-2004 11:18 PM

Janet getting killed at the end of the first act of Psycho is a big wowzer; and like Ritualistic, I thought the whole grabber of Scream had to be a goofy dream or film-within-a-film sequence. The end of Pranks/Dorm That Dripped Blood (horrible movie, though) is pretty shocking when the Final Girl is killed. You just can't kill off the Final Girl!!!!!!!

last bad move 01-14-2004 11:33 PM

in return of the living dead everyone died how about that for a great ending

bad_religion 01-14-2004 11:37 PM

DEAD NEXT DOOR!!! Zombies take over the world!! lol sorry just thought that was funny...:D


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