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makes me wanna take my old VHS player out and hunt for those :D
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You never should've put it away in the first place!
I fuckin' love this genre despite all the shit it gets.
Maniac easily takes the cake for me even tho it verges more on the serial killer style flick. A brilliant preformance by Joe Spinell puts this way above the majority of the shit in this genre. Maniac set a lot of standards.
The Prowler is pure gold aswell and definatley ranks up there and is a truely underated classic of the horror genre. There's some great jump outta your seat scares and a shower scene to end all shower scenes.
The sheer brutality of these two films (complimented by some of Savini's best effects work these films have the two best head exploding scenes you could ever hope to see!) puts them way above a lot of the slasher films produced in this period.
The New York Ripper however is the finest example of what the slasher genre is all about. Totally nasty minded and misoginistic. The graphic violence is exploited in such a voyeristic fashion that the viewer is like a witness to a crime. A totally unsettling experience.
Terror at the Opera is great for the total sadism of the villian. Several times the leading lady is tied up, gagged and has pins taped to her eyelids preventing her to close her eyes to the brutal murders committed in front of her. Very fucked up but a great device put a more sinister tone on the film for me.
I really enjoy My Bloody Valentine also because of the great likable characters. This attachment to the characters added the extra excitment during the stalk and slash scenes. Makes a change from the moronic cannon fodder that litters these films. Hopefully we'll get to see the full uncut version of this film one day (there's something like 9 minutes of gore edited out). The makers have the footage but have been tied up in negotiations with Paramount to release the film uncut.
The Slumber Party Massacre is a classic aswell. Rita Mae Brown's script is pretty dope parody of the genre from a feminist perspective so there's some great tongue in cheek humour in this film. Lots of nudity, some decent gore and a girls vs the over the top but creepy villian storyline make this film for me. Possibly one of the best dispatchings of the bad guy ever!
I've got lots of favorites but these are the ones that stick out for me, and if we were covering all eras Mario Bava's Bay Of Blood would definatley have to get a mention.