You're All Doomed: The Story Of The '80s Slasher Craze 

@avery swangoo This story doesn't surprise me at all. Based on everything I've heard about Sean, I don't think I'd want to sit in the same room as him. I recall Wes Craven, who was his good buddy, saying Heather Langenkamp didn't like him at all when he was on the set of Elm Street for a day or two.

@@mac888spectral7 he was joking you fool !

@@twomindz79 Oh yeah?? Well...so was I!!! Wait, no I wasn't. Sean is a douche.

@avery swangoo He sounds like an arrogant asshole. Sad that he's become so big that he can't appreciate his fan base that helped his most successful franchise (Friday the 13th) succeed. Even Jason actors like Richard Brooker and Kane Hodder (from countless people I've heard from) say that they've always been so kind. The same with Adrian King, Betsy Palmer and other Friday the 13th actors. Sad that he's a douchbag. *His actions sound like he was being arrogant and mocking you so you'd leave him alone.*

Awesome story my dude

My buddy had a scirocco when we were youger. A little 5 speed work car. Brings back memories

even more wild, I read that Estelle Parsons ( Beverly, Roseanne's mom in "Roseanne") was originally considered for the role of Pamela Voorhees. I can't see anyone other than Betsy as Pamela, & I'm sad we didn't get to see her reprise that role properly at least one more time before she passed.

Kina?

Sounds pretty sweet, almost like you're smack dab in the middle of the action. Not that you'd wanna be anywhere NEAR a psycho mowing down private citizens, but, you know...Lol!

@@joeymorvant161 Yea it was surreal lol.At the same drive-in saw the Alien bust out through that guy's chest. Standing outside in the cold and dark, it was pretty frightening too lol.

@@DominusLuna Again, pretty "in the middle of the action" seeming, as it's been said that space is cold and dark. Art imitating life, in this case. Cause you know the back-and-forth with that:"Is it life imitates life, or art imitates life?" Lol.

@@joeymorvant161 lol. it was a feeling i always remember even if i forget everything else like some old hippie \m/

@@DominusLuna 🤘✌

Roger Ebert had no right to call them terrible, he co-wrote "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls", a movie that no one except film nerds would know about, because it sucked. As for exploitative, that move was also made by Russ Myer, a known explotation movie maker. Critics are hypocrites that are paid by the studios to bash any popular film that they didn't like!

like many movie critics...he was a hack.

@@funkyweapon1981 Roger Ebert was the biggest Hypocrites when it came to movies . it was about money like you said when a film studios makes a movie and other studios pay him to talk so much shit . you bet the farm thats what he would do. beyond the valley of the dolls was a fine film ....but not in the way he wanted everyone to view it ....it was a very bad film.. story was nonsence alot of Wtf moments but the reason why it is remembered was because of the T&A and the silly music . and because the two main female leads were playboy playmates .

@@funkyweapon1981 Roger was a film critic and he could call them anything he liked. Citing his sole screenplay is not a valid defense of the genre.

No, their view of the sub-genre was an interesting one. I don't know if I would say that slasher films were a specific counterreaction to the feminist movement. I would argue they continued in the tradition of exploitation largely. So while I think their views are interesting here, I don't agree with that part of their assessment.

Zero film making talent was needed to make those films.......

Reason why i think i like big boobs.

Your d*mn right

I agree

harmon duncan Agreed! No one can mess with slashers!

Your right about that momma!! 80s slasher films and a bowl of popcorn on a fall night.... PERFECT EVENING!

LIKEWISE!

You damn right! 🏆

Popcorn double feature? Huh? HUH?!

Omg! I forgot about "Creepshow"! I love that movie!

I'm jealous.

@@fawkkyutuu8851 in theaters I Saw The Exorcist Jaws black Christmas Halloween 78

We saw Evil Dead and A Nightmare on Elm Street together back in 84'.

Who doesn't? There is name for that trope (the final girl) because it is so common.

@@Southfloridelphia I was referring to when all those critics were whining about the movies glorifying violence on women and saying they were anti women when if you look at them they are pretty dang empowering

@@kawaiikawaiianimegirl4144 This video does a really poor example of contextualizing those clips. The main one is from Siskel and Ebert's show Sneak Previews and was filmed in 1980 before most of the movies in this video were made. Most of the movies they were talking about were things like I Spit on Your Grave not 1980s slasher movies. Heck Ebert gave the original Halloween a 4 out of 4 star rating.

Southfloridelphia I hate those 2 credits still their child’s play reviews sucked “ bla bla vlad putting children in danger bla bla vla “

Southfloridelphia I think it was around 82 cuz prowler didn’t come out until late 81 I think

Well said

try being a 2000s kid and wanting to experience the 80s

I graduated in 1989, and if it's any consolation the 1980's could be overly cheery, bombastic, and phony. Culturally they started well but by mid-1987 the music, movies and other art had stagnated.

I was an 80s kid. Graduated in 1989. I appreciate it more now, than I did then. I guess I thought movies would always be like that. I long for those days to return. Not many good slashers have been made since.

I graduated high school in 1986. I can tell you (from experience) that the 80's was the absolute best decade EVER! Wish every day that I could go back.

He is and will always be dearly missed.

I still think the opening scene in that movie is the greatest in horror history

Although Scream was definitely well done, I am very partial to Nightmare and the fear I had as a 9 year old watching it for the first time. I’m sure it has to do with being a kid and being scared to death as to being much older watching Scream for fun. Love WC

I was 13 in the theater on opening night of "A Nightmare on Elm Street". I do love "Scream", but sometimes it's just about everything that was going on in the theater at the time too! Lol😜

His masterpiece for me is The People Under The Stairs

That's how i feel

Oh, yeah. The cornier the story, the bigger piece of crap it sounded like it would've been, the more you wanted to see it!

R. D. Especially those old-school Mom and Pop video stores, I loved them. An era lost, so sad.

@@michaelowenzacchara3963 Totally.

@@michaelowenzacchara3963 There was one in my town that themed every section based on genre. It was so awesome walking through that place, with cardboard stand-ups of exploding helicopters welcoming you into the action movie corner, a cartoon Ray Stantz and Snow White surrounding the kids section, and that conspicuous privacy curtain near the back leading to the adults section lol. Then Blockbuster swept through and everything got rearranged to copy them: dull lifeless isles of CONTENT. Blah! Good riddance to Blockbuster, I'll never miss that corporate steamroller. Oh and Blockbuster would shove all the horror movies against the back wall with barely any marker, like they were embarrassed to even have them. The local place got into it - their October displays were probably the first time I ever heard the Halloween theme, and I remember they dressed up a dummy as Freddy when Nightmare 5 became available (possibly for all of them, but I would've been too young to remember)

Yep!

Remember In the 80's Dungeon & Dragons, horror, heavy metal and video games turning kids into satanic devil worshipers. That's what they wanted us to believe.

@@kummakummakummakummakummac8606 yeppers i remember that shit, they still say that kind of shit today about video games, when video games clearly are letting you take your rage out in them rather than on your boss, your wife your gf or your kids etc.. with music i'm guessing you were thinking about that Ozzy song weren't ya? anyone who listened to a song or plays a game, watches a movie, reads a book etc... who kill themselves are gonna kill themselves regardless what they did right before they killed themselves. if they are that fucked up in the head no one can convince them otherwise sadly.

Speak on it! Grew up on the same thing as a 90s kid.

TOTALLY!!!

I miss the days when new Jasons were being cranked out at least once every year, or so.

They need to come to a common ground

From what I understand Chris Tucker doesn't want to do it which is holding up production.

Me too

Hell yeah man I like 80's horror

That was on my parents' screener copies back when they owned a couple video stores!

Sean Ashmead Sweet!

Exactly what I thought when I watched it! 😂

80's horror is the greatest horror era.

It was a great time to be alive. My parents bought a Betamax in '82 (I was 7). A trip to the video store was a special treat and they rented all kinds of cool stuff: Old Disney movies, Star Wars, Blade Runner, Temple of Doom, Stand by Me, Alien, Aliens, The Goonies, etc. Never forgot the creepy horror section and all those covers. City of the Walking Dead still haunts me 30+ years later.

Truth. Even our local FOX station had tv horror shows 7 nights a week: Mon-Thur it was The Twilight Zone, Fri was Friday The 13th:The Series, Sat was Dracula:The Series, Monsters, Tales From The Darkside and Freddy's Nightmares, and Sun was War Of The Worlds. In the mid-90's, Saturday nights were Tales From The Crypt. But, alas, good show though it was, the glory days were over, and TFTC was the sole horror program weekends on FOX.

You think you're a zombie. You think it's obscene. Some monster magazine.

@@cgh7337 Great Reply. Love the rhym6 & hakau!

@@joeymorvant161 Awe I remember that as a kid in the 90's. I watched TFTC but the others I could not watch cause I had to go to bed cause of school.

@@mkproductions2.042 Great times.

They are just trying to get laid. They really loved the films.

I bet they both hated women and wanted to torture them. And then tried to cover it up by pretending to be pro women's movement. A pair of phonys.

It's "ki ki ki ki ma ma ma" not "cha cha cha". Everyone get's that wrong lol. Taken from Betsy Palmer saying "Kill her mommy": ki ki ki from "kill" and ma ma ma from "mommy".

that was actually alfredo casero

Yeah, cuz they shoot people now.

Myself!

Hell yeah me to 🍻

I prefer 70s horror personally

And we fans can't get enough!

It is crazy to think that even today, you can make a horror movie with a low budget and have a success.

@@ViktorKruger99 yes, Halloween 78 had a $ 300,000- 325,000 budget and made $60 - 70 million dollars Friday the 13th (1980) was a $500,000 budget and made close to $70 million. These movies make tons of money. The studios treat the films like garbage with little to no continuity meanwhile with some thought and care they can make money off these fims every year. Sorry for the long reply.

But what about a recent example? The Curse of la Llorona made TEN times its budget, an universally reviled movie that didn't lost money for the studio. The horror genre is still going strong after all these years.

@@ViktorKruger99 Indeed. I, for one, am happy about that!

Sometimes I ponder about what movie audiences in 1980 might've wondered what that sound was saying, and if they thought it was actual/complete words. Like, "chew, chew, chew ... pop, pop, pop" LOL! Harry Manfredini really created something unique, just using a couple of syllables from the dialogue. It is quite a chilling albeit peculiar sound.

The burning scared the sh*t out of me as a kid. I just commented above how I was so scared I couldn't even go upstairs in my house. During daylight. Lol. Plus HBO played it over and over again all day long every couple of days.

Child's Play, A Nightmare on Elm Street, My Bloody Valentine, Sleepaway Camp are the best examples.

The studios paid them not to bring that up.

Gene Siskel is said to have asked John Waters to show him a snuff film. Oh the irony..

@@jackshittle yeah, fuck Reagan, and fuck Reaganomics...LONG LIVE slasher films, tho! (Halloween was my personal favorite) :)

@@stvnsvids Reaganomics was why many slasher films came out, you bum. Making money from a gamble.

Why did you put male and female in quotation marks lol?

Tim Stephens I was born 2001 but I r always been a huge 80s and 90s horror fans

I’d go with its direct predecessor and source of inspiration, 1974’s Black Christmas.

​@@paulvoorhies8821the phone call scenes in black christmas are so freaking creepy

Rebecca Hopkins chucky always been my favorite slasher and he has a lot in common with Freddy really being the wise cracking killers

@Dench2020 How are cuckoo demons _not_ scary?

@Smokeanaut Exactly!

That and motion picture companies are afraid to put out something new and different

@Smokeanaut yeah, and all comes down to money... if the "trend" is jumpscares this is what makes money and producers want that big old fat paycheck. this is probably why we're all in sequels hell too.

@Smokeanaut Dinosaurs all of them.

Yeah right. Jumpscares dont work for shit, what are you smokin

I know, right!!!

I wish I would've been scared by it. With the exception of the 1st two "Poltergeist" movies, which came out when I was 11 and 15, I was terrified by scary movies. Didn't start digging them til I was 17 or 18. Anyway, "Friday The 13th, Part 1" came out when I was 8. By the time I started digging them, it was up to "Part 8"!!!!, lol! Anyway, since I took so long to adapt, by the time I started watching the "Friday The 13th" movie series, I knew about the jump scare ending, by hearing about it from other kids!

It’s a ripoff of the end of 1976’s Carrie.

Yup he didn’t even have the mask untill part 3

Part 2 was trash. First 1 much better.

@@mikerodgers7620 they’re allowed to like part 2. No one asked for your angry feedback.

@@legohorrorvideos I never said they weren't allowed to like part 2. Part 2 is trash.That is all I'm saying.Now shut up and go away

Sounds like the joker and slaughter house high.

@@MrBoyYankee You mean "The Dude That Everybody Made Fun Of"?

@JoeyMorant yesss especially with both independent and mainstream horror. Now mostly with cultural significance and undertones both political,gender, class and race related

@@MrBoyYankee Terror Train could also be thrown in with the "nerd getting revenge on those who wronged him years earlier" list of films. As for your 2nd comment, I really enjoy the Jordan Peele films(2, so far). Not only is he bringing in fresh ideas, stuff that nobody else has ever thought of(or if they had the same or similar ideas, they never released them to the public) or tried, but he is giving black people new focuses and purposes and roles in horror movies, as opposed to the ones that any avid horror fan can tell you that they usually get. It's inspiring and refreshing.

Yeah, great cast. It's a classic. Not a slasher, but have you watched Brian DePalma's "Sisters" with Margot Kidder? It's also a fun, scary movie.

Scream is a parody movie, not at all part of the slasher genre.

@@AwareWolfOnWheels. Of course it’s a slasher, dumb ass. It was a parody AND a real slasher.

Apparently the clip this video uses is from 1980 or something like that, before most of these films came out

"Dark Night of the Scarecrow" is a tough one to watch.

Richie Tozier do it please maybe it’ll be a success

Go for it.

Richie Tozier beep, beep, Richie

Jon Bourgoin I’m watching the original IT right now, and Pennywise just said that. It’s my favorite line in the movie 😅

Make sure it has alot of frontal nudity

Agreed!!

nmoes is not about bad parenting! its about being haunted by making the wrong choice (burn someone alive) no matter how justified it may seem (child killer who just avoided jail on a technicality) they hunted him down and burned him because he was murdering their children, in typical films an evil deed against evil is often seen as good, in nmoes its more realistic in that an evil deed just makes things worse especially in your dreams, its another layer that people recognize without it having to be explained in the film that makes it a more effective horror than others

@@cattycats4 Look at the movies again. Nancy's mother was a drunk, and her father was too busy working to really be there for the family. Jesse (second movie) had an abusive authoritarian father. Kristin (third movie) her mother brought home guys every night. Alice (fourth movie) drunk father who was verbally abusive after the mother died. In the case of the second movie, Jesse's family moved to Elm Street so his parents had nothing to do with Kruger's death. They moved into Nancy's old house which is why Kruger targeted him. Even in the fourth movie, Alice's father wasn't involved as the incident was now so long ago that these were new kids Kruger was trying to get to. I could go on but I hope you get the picture. Basically all of these parents were awful to their children and families in general, all of them either called their own children crazy, in some cases put them in a mental hospital, and none of these parents bothered to listen when their children were saying something was wrong. And despite these kids clearly calling him Freddy Kruger, the parents who did kill him, hid their knowledge of him and pretended he was made up. The bad parenting aspect even goes as far as Freddy's Dead the Final Nightmare where it's Kruger's own child in the crossfire, as well as Wes Craven's New Nightmare where the child's deteriorating condition is being routinely dismissed as caused by bad parenting via Heather. Trust me, those movies are about Bad parents. It's a theme that has been prevalent in every Freddy Kruger movie made, including Freddy vs Jason.

@@themisfitowl2595 your observations arent wrong but in my opinion its a bigger picture than just bad parenting , were the parents bad parents before they torched him? we dont know but their hand was forced by the murders and the bad parenting angle is in my opinion a symbol of them carrying the emotional baggage for committing murder to save the rest of the children of elm st as it is always tied to the original trauma of before freddy was burned and how murdering him doomed them to never be at peace in turn neglecting everything thereafter , its easy to say its about bad parenting but it goes no way to explain the origin of the bad parenting which was freddy being a serial killer wiping out half the towns kids before the arrest was botched etc, my point is the origin story has always carried weight, theres always been a clear cut good vs evil in the films as referenced by freddys birth being by 1000 maniacs and of a holy nun, the parents constantly haunted by their choice to enable evil in their own revenge which only enabled something far worse - dream demons. the bad parenting is in my opinion just good continuity

@@cattycats4 Hmm maybe. That begs the question though, what baggage was being carried by the parents who were not involved with Freddy's murder then? Since not all the parents were part of that crime. So if Freddy was only punishing the ones who wronged him, he would have been done by the third movie. I can agree that we have different interpretations though. True art always leaves different impacts on different people.

@@themisfitowl2595 thanks for your replies , a good conversation, you make excellent points Id have to rewatch the first 5 to refresh my account of things and the tv series as it definitely had an episode that covered freddy pre burning, I think anything after nmoes 5 might have some contradictions to the original storyline, although the series for the most part is worth compiling what is canon as it is a work of art. all of the ghostly children are from before freddy was burned and the appear quite often in the first few films its fantastic how such a major tragedy that occured in the history of the films is never really detailed at all other than a few fleeting moments (nancy being told she used to have a sister etc)and yet seems to be the driving force of the supernatural and the rest, it allows the films to stay in the now rather than reminiscing and adds a mystery to the story, I just wish they kept up the horror angle after the 5th film but it turned cartoonish in the 6th and after which they kind of got away with in the 4th film, new nightmare was a return of sorts but it was almost too ambitious for its own good having very bold ideas of further warping reality to fit into the nightmare but it failed as it is largely an uneventful film where not much happens aside from the ideas, i think its still great but hard to know how it fits with the rest as far as canon goes

What they were really bemoaning in that video was the final and deserved death of the old studio system that had completely monopolized the industry from the 40's until the late 70's/early 80's and had shut out most independent film makers unless they had friends in high places or were willing to compromise their vision to get a movie made. They really hated the idea that nobodies with their own ideas who were willing to work cheap could make produce movies that made millions at the box office, everything else was just a lot of pseudo-intellectual philosophizing and moral grandstanding.

I could really give a rat's ass on ANYTHING critics have to say on tv, movies, cds, books. I rely on my OWN taste. Now, I know this has nil to do with the original poster's point. But, being that critics were brought up....

Did they actually see the movies they're talking about?? In Friday the 13th..Prom Night. Terror Train etc.. the victims are at least 50% males so fuck this " violence towards women " mumbo jumbo

@@joeymorvant161 What taste ??????

@@colderbeer Whatever.

👍 👌 😎😈

I find it hard not to be angry at Vic because it's thanks to him the F13 Game got screwed over. Never did get the Jason X level. :(

I love that movie gem too… watch it even when it’s not Halloween ❤️❤️❤️❤️

That's on RU-vid.

@@MrBoyYankee Probably. Wouldn't surprise me. But, I have it taped from TV when it premiered in '89.

which one? the one everyone has seen on YT with Jason Takes manhattan? or the jason goes to hell one? or the one with cj graham, which isn't on youtube, where he promoted jason lives, yet wore a sack from part 2 because they couldnt get the rights to the mask, which cj talks about at panels? still waiting for the latter 2 aresnio hall interviews.

@@MrBoyYankee only one of 3 is on youtube. jason was on arsenio hall three times to promote jason lives, jtm and jason goes to hell. only the jtm is on youtube. the jason goes to hell and cj graham one are both not on youtube.

That was not the real jason

why why why do they feel the need to add music to documentaries???

@@bobrew461 I don't mind music. Just not the same 10 - 15 second loop over and over.

that was not the real jason

Yes it actually is the real Jason Voorhees his name is Mr.Kane W. Hodder!

The fact that Kane not only kept himself from laughing but stayed in character.... 😂

I remember that. Hilarious!