It’s almost Halloween, friends. Spooky season is well
underway and that means that it is time to pick some movies to watch. This year Couch Thing is giving you a list of
five great slashers to keep you warm while you sip something pumpkin spice
flavored (or some well-aged bourbon, it’s up to you)
5. Sleepaway Camp
This grisly little slasher takes place at a summer camp, and
unlike Friday the 13th, it features actual campers- kids in danger
from a mad killer. It is grimy and sleazy and has amazingly inventive and gory
kills. Plus a twist that has become iconic!
4. The Burning
Another summer camp where things go badly for the people
involved. This one is a take on the Cropsey urban legend. It features very
earlier appearances from Holly Hunter and George Costanza himself, Jason
Alexander. The killer uses huge garden shears as his primary weapon and they
come in handy for one massive kill that involves people on a raft. Great effects
by the master Tom Savini.
3. Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
A New Beginning takes Friday 13th back to its
whodunit roots. Tommy Jarvis finds himself in the Pinehurst Halfway House with
other troubled teens. The young people are slaughtered one by one by Jason –
or, are they? Is this really Jason Vorhees back from the dead, or is someone
else playing the part?
2. Hatchet
2006 gave us Hatchet, a humorous throw back to the early
days of slashers. It features Victor Crowley, a hulking and deformed killer
lurking in the swamps. Hatchet is a must for anyone who loves the classic
slasher tropes!
1.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre part 2
Tobe Hooper returns to his roots with this follow-up to The
Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Leatherface is back along with an extended Sawyer
family. The best part of this movie is
the way each member of the cast approaches it as if they are in different
movies. Caroline Williams is serious and grounded, she is in a terrifying
horror movie. Bill Moseley plays Chop
Top over the top, in an absurd comedy. Then there’s Dennis Hopper. I have come
to believe that Hopper was trapped in a time loop where he finished up his
roles in Apocalypse Now, then lost his mind making The Last Movie over and over
again, possibly for eons, and somehow Tobe Hooper plucked him out of that loop and
dropped him into TCM 2. It’s the only thing that makes sense.
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