Yeah, that part where the guy gets butchered by the unknown killer had me going "ulp" because it sure wasn't something they should have shown on TV uncut, but it was ('70s were so much more based), late at night. Avalon's presence in the movie really duped me into thinking I was about to watch some Scooby-Doo type antics on some "Gidget" sorta movie, LOL! Reminds me of a co-worker who took his small child to watch the original "Robocop" because he thought, because of the title, that it was a Disney film haha; it dawned on him, very suddenly and shockingly, how wrong he was at the scene when the prototype robot blasts that exec out the board-room window in graphic detail.
why do people keep calling Halloween the first slasher movie when this, Horror High, Snape Island, Twitch of the Death Nerve & Drive In Massacre etc were doing the same formula long before lol
It has to do with how the slasher subgenre formed. Without HALLOWEEN, it probably wouldn't have formed, as it was filmmakers trying to copy HALLOWEEN that resulted in the collection of features we now recognize as being essential to the slasher subgenre's identity. So, even though there are films that predate HALLOWEEN that have characteristics of the slasher, it was HALLOWEEN that initiated the exploration and formation of the genre's essential features, so it is considered the first.
@@varanid9 for me the very first real (proto)slasher is "Blood and black lace"(1964), also the original title say that, "Sei donne per l'assassino"(Six women for the killer), a series of murders that becomes maybe for the first time the real protagonist of a movie.
