It started out (in my opinion) with a few truly decent gems... and then slowly but surely degraded into what can only be referred to politely as the majority of the 1980s. Although having a brief return to noteworthiness in the latter mid-90s, the sub-genre of terror that is the slasher film (or, as Sir Roger Ebert so dutifully-coined it, the "dead teenager movie" despite not being able to cover it all as not every slashing-centric endeavor deals with a group of pre-adulthoods) has by and large remained to be in an on-going downward spiral into sputtering buckets of diseased crappola.
Can it ever rise above the influence of the box office dollar and actually be a, while perhaps not respected in the most generic sense, be a platform for truly decent or better cinema stories again?
This prose-dabbler seems to think so.
Can it ever rise above the influence of the box office dollar and actually be a, while perhaps not respected in the most generic sense, be a platform for truly decent or better cinema stories again?
This prose-dabbler seems to think so.
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