slasher... that's what they called me
A little reenactment to get the ball rolling with Freddy vs. Jason . I was watching a YouTube video from GoodBadFlicks earlier, notes on the movie Cabin in the Woods , and he argues (rather aptly) that the old ones who watch over the “ritual” therein... (“Mrs. Voorhees” should be more helpful with her directions. She tells Jason to go to “Elm Street” but doesn’t tell him what city or even what state. It’s a bit of a walk from New Jersey to Ohio. He might need some snacks, or an extra machete for the road.) ...represent we in the audience, watching the same ritual of death over and over and over again. The ending of that movie is us destroying the whole setup to start over. In that video, he suggests that the more recent remakes of Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street were not the way to go; we need new ideas. Really, I’m not sure that the basic slasher setup isn’t doable indefinitely; a killer stalking a series of victims—that’s a plotline a lot of different sets of deta...