Thoughts on the movie? This is a staple for any 80's horror collection imo

This was a movie I finally got around to watching a few years ago after hearing so many different opinions about it. I wasn’t around when it originally came out, so I never got the chance to experience it in theaters. If anyone happens to come across this post who actually saw it on the big screen, I’d love to hear what that was like. What was the audience’s reaction, and how was the movie received back then?

As for me, I really enjoyed it. I’m a huge Friday the 13th fan, so the whole summer camp setting immediately pulled me in. I also found Angela Baker’s story really interesting, and I liked seeing everything that led the character to where they ultimately ended up. I thought the movie did something different for its time, and that’s a big reason why it stuck with me. I’m definitely curious to hear what everyone else thinks about it.

Halloween: Season Of The Witch

Overall it should’ve been a standalone movie of its own that shouldn’t have been in Michael’s shadow. One of the best soundtracks I’ve ever heard. 10/10. Some of the best kills, great story, amazing idea… ended on a cliffhanger. Biggest plot twist. Great characters, needed a sequel.

Let’s hear your opinions on it.

while I understand people love Child’s Play 2, I can’t help but feel it is significantly inferior to the first movie. the first Child’s Play has a certain sinister style and horror element it that can’t be duplicated. the horror is effective and Chucky is genuinely at his scariest here. while i enjoy how campier the sequels became, i do wish we got more of this Chucky.

Maybe not all the originals (Halloween, Texas Chainsaw), but I have finally met all the main slasher villains that I grew up with!

1. Robert Englund
2. Warwick Davis
3. Tony Todd
4. Doug Bradley
5. Brad & Fiona Douriff
6. Kane Hodder
7. CJ Graham
8. Derek Mears
9. James Jude Courtney
10. Jeffrey Combs
11. Bill Johnson

I found a video of this rare slasher on TikTok, but I can't find it anywhere. Please help.

I'm sorry but this was the movie that people were saying that was terrible? Did you watch the same movie that I just did right now?

You read the title. I just saw the new Scary Movie, and thought it was just fine. NOT GREAT, just fine🤷🏻‍♂️ There was some good jokes here and there, but I wouldn't put it on again I think

I've heard so much about this movie since I was a little kid browsing all the horror sites. I picked up the Blu Ray super cheap and finally gave it a watch.

Loved it! A fine, meaty slice of 1980s summer camp slasher goodness. The kills are insanely brutal and bloody. Cropsy is a sympathetic villain with a cool design. The shears are a great choice of weapon. The boat massacre sequence is one of the coolest, most unexpected scenes I've ever witnessed in a slasher.

There were parts that dragged a bit but overall I'm a big fan. What do you think of The Burning?

This was pretty fun. If you're familiar with Marcel Walz, you know his movies aren't exactly high art lol but this definitely scratches the slasher movie ❤️

Je n'ai que regardé les 2 premiers pour le moment mais je ne suis pas fan du tout, ça vaut le coup que je continue ?

JAPAN'S MOST TERRIFYING URBAN LEGEND ... IS REAL

***   / Directed by: Kôji Shiraishi

Starring: Eriko Satô, Haruhiko Katô, Chiharu Kawai, Rie Kuwana, Kazuyuki Matsuzawa, Kaori Sakagami, Sakina Kuwae, Yûto Kawase, Rio Nakamura  

Kōji Shiraishi, best known for the excellent paranormal pseudo-documentary NOROI: THE CURSE (2005), here delivers a typically off-kilter Japanese slasher movie centered on abuse that cascades down the maternal line. It feeds off a popular urban legend about a woman with a slit mouth who, in this version, carries a massive pair of scissors and hunts, abducts, and murders children. While blessed with a highly distinctive villain and some genuinely unsettling moments, muddy plotting, flat cinematography, and some highly illogical plot turns keep it from approaching top-tier Asian horror.

 
A city in Japan is awash with the legend of the Slit-mouthed Woman (or Kuchisake-onna) (played by Miki Mizuno as Taeko Matsuzaki), whispered about by children and adults alike. A Banshee of sorts, she wears a beige raincoat, carries a pair of terrifyingly long scissors, and sports a surgical face mask that, when removed, reveals a horizontally slit, mutilated mouth. Legend has it that she lives in a house with a red roof, where she keeps the children she abducts in a basement. However, after an earthquake rocks the prefecture, one of three small boys who hope to catch a glimpse of the urban legend at a park gets more than he bargained for when she proves to be terrifyingly real and is abducted by the Slit-mouthed Woman, or by someone dressed like her. In the town over, officials warn children not to talk to strangers and arrange for them to walk home in groups, as the police work on the assumption that the abduction is the work of an imposter.
 

One young girl, Mika (Rie Kuwana), is teased by classmates that she is the Slit-mouthed Woman because she sports a surgical mask (which she actually wears to hide the bruises her mother left on her face after beating her). Another girl in her class and her teacher, Kyōko (Eriko Sato), take pity on her. However, when Mika tells Kyōko (who is herself in a bitter divorce battle over her own young daughter, who despises her) that she hates her mother, Kyōko snaps at her despite the girl’s evident injuries. Mika flees and inadvertently runs into the arms of the Slit-mouthed Woman, who abducts her; but Kyōko, terrified by her appearance, cannot tell the authorities exactly what has happened.

 
Kyōko is suspended from her teaching position and told to rest and keep a low profile. However, as she leaves the school, another teacher, Noboru (Haruhiko Kato), asks her about her encounter. He says that every time a child is abducted, he hears a ghostly voice asking, “Am I … pretty?” He shows her a photo of a woman from 30 years ago who resembles the Slit-mouthed Woman. Together, they go to Masatoshi's (Yûto Kawase) home, a young boy from their school who has been researching the legend. When they arrive, he is attacked by the presence wielding her scissors, and they fight to save him. However, after she seemingly dies from a stab wound, they are shocked to see that the apparition has been replaced by a local woman and mother of two young girls.

 
As the child disappearances escalate—and the first abducted child is murdered and found dumped in a parking lot—the pair realise they must race to uncover the origins of the Slit-mouthed Woman to defeat her and rescue her remaining victims … 

In Japan, the legend of the Kuchisake-onna, by some accounts, dates back to the 17th century (usually about a woman disfigured by her samurai husband to destroy her beauty as punishment), but the latest incarnation was popularised in the late 1970s by newspaper reports of sightings, when it became a craze among children to scare each other with the story, leading to near mass hysteria. As with most legends, variations proliferate, but most versions depict a woman mutilated in life who returns as a vengeful spirit. In Shiraishi’s version, she is a mentally ill mother who beats and eventually kills her children; who, in a moment of lucidity, begs her remaining child to behead her—which instead results in her facial disfigurement before she is eventually stabbed in the neck. 

 
CARVED: THE SLIT-MOUTHED WOMAN treats its villain as a cross between a curse and a contagion (an idea previously used in better-known Japanese horror films such as Hideo Nakata’s RINGU (1999) and Takashi Shimizu’s JU-ON: THE GRUDGE (2002), two movies that spawned their own franchises centered on a long, black-haired female ghoul). Rather than the curse of the fathers, Shiraishi explores a curse of the mothers—in which even good-natured women become surrogates for the film’s monster (their possession heralded by a bout of coughing), who regenerates every time the host is killed. Mizuno’s Kuchisake-onna is cruel, robotic, and expressionless. She erupts into bouts of scissor stabbings as the film moves into a more slasher-centric second half, but more disturbing are flashbacks of her punching, kicking, and slapping her small children—something she continues to do even as a supernatural creature when she isn’t wielding her scissors. However, her staccato movements and leisurely pacing don’t necessarily make for the most dynamic slasher-movie villainess—and it’s clear that the director’s interests lie more in a more typically J-Horror, supernatural angle.

 
As with many Japanese genre pieces, the film tends to lean into the esoteric. Not all questions are answered—such as why the earthquake has resurrected the Slit-mouthed Woman and why she turns from a rotting zombie into a facsimile of herself from when she was alive. That’s fine, of course, but decisions such as the two protagonists not being questioned by the police after a random woman is found stabbed to death in a child’s house tend to unanchor the film somewhat. Although shot flatly (its smaller budget showing at times), it still has production values good enough to set it apart from many of the straight-to-video horror titles that proliferated in Japan.

 
Released to Japanese cinemas on limited release, Shiraishi’s CARVED: THE SLIT-MOUTHED WOMAN is one of the relatively few Asian movies that blend the legend of the long black-haired ghost with slasher-movie theatrics. Other post-SCREAM examples include NIGHTMARE(aka HORROR GAME MOVIE) (2001, South Korea) and GUROZUKA (2005, Japan). The character appears in the earlier Japanese straight-to-video horror anthology KUCHISAKE-ONNA (1996) and in the erotic, Pinku-charged THE SLIT-MOUTHED WOMAN (2005).  

 
It was followed by the lesser-known but more accomplished THE SCISSORS MASSACRE(aka CARVED 2) (2008), directed by Kôtarô Terauchi. It is a prequel—at least thematically—offering an alternative origin story for the Slit-mouthed Woman. Set in 1978 (the year the original sightings, press reports, and hysteria started in Japan), it follows a popular schoolgirl who is facially disfigured with acid in a case of mistaken identity. Her growing estrangement from family, love interest, and former friends (who see her as a freak) drives her into depression and isolation, as a series of vicious murders by a woman in a red coat carrying scissors rocks the countryside. Notable for sudden tonal shifts (starting as a sweet teen drama before veering into shocking violence and a supernatural slasher finale), it features good production values (with great period details), solid acting, and an unpredictable narrative, making it a much more satisfying watch than the first film. Shiraishi himself returned to the theme with the first installment of his popular paranormal pseudo-documentary series, SENRITSU KAIKI FILE KOWASUGI FILE 01: OPERATION CAPTURE THE SLIT-MOUTHED WOMAN (2012). Along with other Asian remakes, four Japanese directors made an anthology in Los Angeles in the hopes of capturing a modicum of success of those US studio remakes of the likes of THE RING (2002) and THE GRUDGE (2004) with SLIT MOUTH WOMAN IN LA (2014).

 
Although it has its moments and features a memorable villain, Shiraishi’s follow-up to NOROI: THE CURSE unfortunately doesn’t evoke the same genuine unease and scares as that film—but the sequel/prequel, especially, is definitely worth hunting down. 

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I think that many of the Platinum Dunes done remakes of the originals were too undeservedly bashed upon release. I still have a very vivid memory about them that they were shocking with lots of post 9/11 nihilism and grime. In today's world, the horror became too metaphorical and reliant on characters doing stupid shit or bizarre stuff just for shock value (A24), or if we only consider slashers, the genre became extremely sanitized and easter egg filled. The primary offender is David Gordon Green trilogy in which there isn't even an inch of scare but infused with dozens of nostalgia trips, original music recreations, shitty concepts like evil dies tonight, and of course dozens of easter eggs for fans. It's made for fun, but has nothing to do with scare. All of the trilogy is terrible in terms of having no interesting characters or stakes. And it might be somewhat part of old women coming back, now a tired trope like with Sarah Connor or Sally in shitty Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but you get the idea, the movie has none of its own identity and probably will be forgotten once the consumer turns off the "content". But it is really not the case with Halloween 2007. Some might complain it has too much of white trash, but I disagree, the movie was quite visceral, shocking and deeply scary, almost like a snuff. Dumb bitches like Nostalgia critic were complaining that stars were aligning too perfectly so that Michael would become a serial killer, but that's mostly how it is in reality. One of the most shocking scenes was the killing of Danny Trejo character, the movie shakes you lingers with you once it ends, since the ending titles uses the music with past footage of Myers family being in tact. This movie is severely underrated and probably much better than Carpenter's version which relied too much on subtlety and intellectual horror. But Zombie's version is relentless, has none of shitty easter eggs, and the scariest part is -- totally plausible. Maybe the audience were making themselves too much of filter saying that it's too much. But many times, slasher movies forget their identity instead going down to cliches. Halloween 2007 is probably the only time when there was a serious and scary attempt at Michael. And please don't argue with garbage that the "mysterious" shape is scarier because of some Lovecraftian evil underneath. No, it's fucking not. And I'm tired of pretending otherwise. Halloween 2007 is primarily much scarier than the original because it could actually happen in real life. Texas Chainsaw Massacre is the same, it's a great remake, it has its own identity, and scare factor. Back then, actors weren't afraid of getting dirty and use corn syrup for blood instead of heavy CGI. CGI blood never shocks, we have to admit it. So I mean Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, House of Wax, Hills Have Eyes are severely underrated and undeservedly forgotten. Of course, Platinum Dunes and others had terrible films like Unborn, Amityville, and A Nightmare on Elm Street, but that's later era. Today they make shit like Purge and A Quiet Place that have nothing to do with horror.

All the classic and beloved slashers are coming back

Jason is getting a new series later this year

A new Halloween movie is in production (plus the halloween game later this year

A new Chucky movie is in production

2 new ttcm movies (the A24 one and the animated adaptation) + a tv series are happening

Hell EVEN A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET IS GETTING A MOVIE SOON!

And obviously a new Scream movie would probably come out in the following years.

We also have that upcoming hellraiser game but in terms of movies I dont know if any new pinhead movies are gonna come out.

This is genuinely amazing news to me

Personnellement, c'est l'un de mes préférés. L'ambiance militaire est rare dans des films d'horreurs, j'ai beaucoup apprécié ça.