tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799692319538063538.post3688244232887123391..comments2024-03-11T00:24:45.891-07:00Comments on Popcorn Culture: Census Bloodbath: Eh-MericaBrennanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15399713449347559869noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799692319538063538.post-61256533948022445482021-06-29T12:22:53.936-07:002021-06-29T12:22:53.936-07:00You make a good point. I think I was limiting myse...You make a good point. I think I was limiting myself to a very narrow window of "slasher that doesn't have any real artistic ambitions." You're right, there is a lot of very good horror that appropriately handles tough subjects like that. The kind of movie you only watch once, but still.<br /><br />And thank you! I'm happy to be back! Work + pandemic really drained me of doing anything at home other than clean and make food and watch sitcoms, but I quit my terrible job and now I can resurrect the slashers!Brennanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15399713449347559869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799692319538063538.post-17744595925102493972021-06-29T11:54:52.913-07:002021-06-29T11:54:52.913-07:00"a killer wearing an evil beret and a pair of..."a killer wearing an evil beret and a pair of clear gloves is stalking people involved in the club"<br /><br />Yet no one is killed by baguette.<br /><br />I can see what you mean about the tonal difference; I might posit that there's a distinction, probably not usually that consciously-made, between "horror" and "the way it is" in movies about serial killers, so on one hand, it's fun to have fun with a bunch of suburbanites (or, to keep it Canadian, even mine workers!) getting menaced by colorful supervillains, and movies that go out of their way to plumb urban decay in the 70s and early 80s let alone focus on vulnerable populations therein. It's a lot less easy to enjoy a story about a serial killer that takes place amongst people that would be the likeliest serial killer target than it is, say, the personnel of an apparently-abandoned hospital get picked off by a giant because his sister is their only patient. In turn, just to justify itself, that kind of movie requires some higher floor of quality, and maybe some artistic purpose beyond wallowing in grit and grime and realistic murder, and of course most slashers are micro-budget programmers, not Seven or Zodiac. That doesn't mean that something like, say, Maniac isn't art, just that it's never going to be a movie I value over, say, Nightmare on Elm Street Part 3. (For another example: there's a vampire movie out right now that sounds from reviews like it's only distinguishable from a movie about a redneck family who enables their brother's serial killing because the brother drinks blood, and I don't really understand the impulse to take the fantasy gloss off of such things, even if I know it can, theoretically, be done well.)<br /><br />Good to see Census Bloodbath return, though!Hunter Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10925220178171355473noreply@blogger.com