Slasher Movies

cerulean

cerulean

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It's weird how people are so afraid of knives that there is a whole genre of movies devoted to knife killers. These are the so-called "slasher" pics.

Slasher movies have been around for a long time, but the genre really took off in the late 70's/ early 80's. Many adventure, suspense, and horror movies have elements of the slasher pic, but true slasher movies seem to be enjoying a resurgence in the late 90's/ early 00's.

A slasher movie simply consists of a guy running around stabbing people. That's basically all there is to it. Stangely, people find this to be extremely scary and entertaining.

Personally, I find guns to be much more frigtening than knives, but can you imagine a movie where some guy just goes around shooting people? That would be a real bore.

Flip through the channels on your TV for ten seconds and you'll see someone get shot in realistic detail, but a realistic knife wounding is virtually never shown clearly. I reckon most people have cut themselves with a knife before, so they know it's scary and it hurts and it takes time to heal. That's why they're scared of knives in movies. However, most people have never been shot before, and many people have never shot anything before, so they have no first hand knowledge of the damage a bullet can cause.

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I just watched a movie called "Ravenous", which had some great knife scenes in it. It's not a horror movie per se, but is set back in the 1700's (I think). It's not for the faint of stomach, but is a good story with quality acting, IMHO. All you fans of the Bowie need to check it out! It's rated R, and it needs to be.
 
Let's be honest !
I am absolutely TERRIFIED of knives in the hands of maniacs. For Chrissakes, if you ain't, you are seriously retarded.
AND, I am seriously afraid of knives in the hands of people who are any (or several) of the following :
1. angrier than I
2. fitter than I
3. with a longer reach
4. with a bigger knife
5. just bloody meaner

and, if you ain't, you are really stupid.

And all the smilies in the world won't lessen my contempt for people who think knife combatives are fun or entertaining.
Grow up, blokes.


Aw, well....
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BrianWE

Believe me....being this old and having to live with all this experience is not the picnic I thought it was going to be.
 
And I am sure you do ,Mickey.
Just remember that the movies are going to continue training the non-knife people.
Eventually, your knives will be taken away as you watch your videos.
No worries.....i am gonna be dead. One of the compensations that come with age and EXPERIENCE

Damn ! "I love knives in movies !!!! " is a POST ?? so that's how you get record numbers of posts.
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BrianWE

Believe me....being this old and having to live with all this experience is not the picnic I thought it was going to be.
 
I've always thought that plotless horror movies where a bunch of people die for no real reason were pretty dumb. And Slasher movies do give knives a bad image to the sheeple. Although that doesn't make a damn bit of sense at all. They enjoy watching knives in movies being used to cut people up into little bittty peices and have blood spraying everywhere. We just like to use knives as tools. And they're afraid of us? Ontop of that, how is it the sheeple manage to lump all knives together in the same category.And they judge how scary they are by size. If I walked into a store, bought something, then proceeded to pull out a 9" bowie to cut off the tag security would probably be on me like a pack of dogs on a 3 legged cat. But a 9" chefs knife in their own kitchen is perfectly acceptable, because kitchen knives are different. I'm going to get a 9" chef's knife and start carrying it around. Except some idiots won't know the difference there either, so I'll wear one of those sandwich boards with big bold letters saying "don't worry, its a chef's knife".Maybe then the sheeple will leave me alone and go back to their hack em up, that guy must have twice as much blood as a normal person I have no clue why this guy's killing people slasher movies.

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Kitchen knives can be pretty scary. Remember that 70's movie 'Play Misty for me' with Clint Eastwood. He ends up in a dark house being attacked by a demented woman with about a 9" butcher knife.....made an impression on me!

Regards,
Rick
 
Damn, Rick....helluva first post !
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BrianWE

Believe me....being this old and having to live with all this experience is not the picnic I thought it was going to be.
 
I was thinking about a movie I saw last night where this evil little kid runs around killing stupid women with a scalpel. The movie wasn't scary at all; just silly.

It reminded me of that Chucky doll. It's like, how is this thing supposed to hurt you? Just kick him in the head or simply jump onto a table and avoid him. I can't believe that doll managed to stab so many people to death.

But the thing with the scalpel seems to illustrate another movie/knife myth, which is that scalpels are supernaturally sharp instruments; far sharper than any knife and able to easily sever limbs with a single snick.
 
Hey Matt I think the chef knife isnt an option any more either !! Wasnt that what Micheal Myers used in Halloween.
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AS far as the fear factor in movies with knives I have a theory. Why Are knife scenes scarrier than gun scenes. I feel its because gun scenes are rarely portrayed realisticly where knife scenes often are. In most gun scenes its one shot one kill. The bad guy makes a humorous comment and then bang and the person he shot is instantly dead and quiet or lets out a last Aauugh and dies with his eyes shut. The knife scene in the begining of scream 1 and 2 were horrific and truer to life. The human body is pretty tough and usually requires alot to take it out. When the Bad guy In scream 1 took out drew barrymore It required multiple stab wounds and was WAY gruesome. THe knife scene in American me was the same. YUCK !! but gun scenes almost invariably clean and quick and full of sh--. Close to real gun scene. Full metal jacket when the sniper catches that guy in the open and repeatedly hits him. That was scary. Its the sufferin not the die'n thats scary.

DAmn this program needs spell check. Im just to old to pick up another skill.

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Ever seen someone get shot in front of you?

Ever held someone that was just shot and was still warm???

I have both and I don't care to remember it too much.

As for gun shooting - read the book "Street-Stoppers" by Evan Marshal and John Sanow and you'll learn how hard it is to get someone out with a gun shot(s).

The gun movie scenes are ridiculous at most
And the main problem is that people - and that includes judges and juries - wind up thinking that one shot, from any caliber, will take down any assailant - no matter what size he is - from what distance he's coming etc etc.

Get this- the knife is mightier than the gun - especially at close range.

The wound tunnel the knife makes is almost always more radical then anything short of a shotgun can produce and the loss of blood is usually more severe.

When somebody does fall down after being shot it is usually from the mental shock of being hit.

The rare instant stops are the cranial shot (severe brain damage), the spine being hit - thus rendering the subject completely motionless, and the pelvic shot - which drops the person to the ground (but he can still activate a gun)

Carry guns and learn how to use them - but have a knife and learn even harder to use it.


No smilies in this post - but "The edge" with Anthony Hoppkins is a great "knife" movie.

 
Blilious...ever been shot? I have six holes and two leftover bullets from the last encounter. Believe me, any wound sucks. The thing about a knife is that it's a much more personal weapon, one you have to get down and dirty with, I think thats why those silly slasher movies are so popular.

Jake
 
Blilious & Jake Evans

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Shade, Don't forget to take along your cutting board, apron, and big funny white hat. That is probably the only way you will be able to get away with it.
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Don
 
Zut and Jake - nice to meet you guys.

You see - I come from Israel and we still fight for our right to be here.

My father (70 this January!) still walks around showing the bullets he has stuck in him since the 1948 war. he got a few at the '67 six day war also...

I was smarter then to get hit myself (or luckier..)But I have learned allot about these subjects - first hand and second during my 3 year service and reserve duty.

As for getting personal - do you remember the movie "Leon" where Leon said that learning to kill with a knife comes last - because it's the hardest? Well - words of wisdom. Luckily - I never had to do it. Yet.
 
Zut and Blilious, it all comes down to survival, you do what you have to do. I'm just glad I don't have to fight any more wars and I hope my son never has to, It changes you and those who have never been there can never understand.
Oh Blilious, get your Dad drunk for me.

Jake
 
Blilious, the US gets a shorter, edited version of "Leon", called "The Professional".
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Remember the old Twilight Zone where a lady in an old farm house is visited by tiny aliens, and they attack her with butter knives?

Pretty weird, thread...
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Yeah, I remember that Twilight Zone episode. It scared the poop out of me when I was a little kid. So did a lot of other Twilight Zone episodes, come to think of it.

Another movie/knife myth I thought of is the "Invisible Metal Scabbard". Whenever a knife is presented in a movie in an aggressive manner, there is always a "SHINK" type sound to accompany it. It sounds as if the knife is being drawn from a metal sheath. This scraping metal sound effect is heard even if someone simply picks up a kitchen knife from a counter, or pulls a knife out of their pocket.
 
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