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Originally Posted by PhenomenalTLD  It's interesting to think about how different things are now vs. 1978 when it comes to slasher cinema.  |
I don't think there is slasher cinema at the moment. Sure there is the usual ton of low budget supermarket shelf fillers but there aren't really any slasher films getting cinema releases.
After the boom in the late nineties early 2000's with
Scream,
Halloween H20,
I Know What You Did Last Summer,
Urban Legend etc the studios went remake mad with some good ones -
The Hills Have Eyes, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, My Bloody Valentine and
House of Wax - but these were actually few and far between. Most of the releases were anemic PG13 films such as
Prom Night and
Boogeyman along with misfires like the
Friday 13th remake which pretty much put a nail in the coffin for the slasher film at the cinema until someone decides the time is right to give them another go.