#80's Slashers

[queer-coded-camaro-driver]

Beloved, I am shaking like a rat dog, PLEASE EXPLAIN WHAT YOU MEAN ABOUT VECNA AND THE PHANTOM I AM AQUIVER WITH ANTICIPATION

Oh, my darling wife, I am so glad you asked!

It all starts in the year 1986, when Jill Schoelen is cast as Mary in Babes in Toyland. And yes, I DO mean the terrible Babes in Toyland movie I own on VHS. The one where Keanu Reeves and Drew Barrymore perform an entire musical number about how much they love being from Cincinnati, Ohio while inside a moving Jeep.

The one where Mr. Miyagi is Santa Claus. That one.

Anyway, Jill Schoelen is now a certified screen presence, and she has the legitimacy of working with Reeves and Barrymore (who are still stars on the rise in the late 80's and early 90's). She also happens to have a pretty solid singing voice, as demonstrated in BITL.

So 1989 rolls along and Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera is the latest American pop culture hit. After two years of drawing enormous crowds on London's West End stage, the show finally opens on Broadway in 1988. Hoping to cash in on the Phantom-nomenon and hook a wider teen audience, the writers and producers turned it into A SLASHER FILM!

Starring Jill Schoelen as Christine Day and Robert Englund as the mysterious (perhaps murderous) composer Erik Destler, this version of Phantom uses a modern-day frame narrative to play with Gaston LeRoux's original horror themes.

Honestly, if it weren't so terribly produced and awkwardly acted, this could have been a pretty solid B-horror movie. As it stands, 1989's Phantom of the Opera is one of my favorite Disasterpieces.

While this movie was very much hoping to capitalize on Englund's popularity (and the highest grossing Nightmare on Elm Street movie to date, 1988's Nightmare 4: The Dream Master) it failed spectacularly. With 5.5 on IMDB and 33% on Rotten Tomatoes... it's bad.

Fun Fact: The lead investigator in Phantom is named Inspector Hawkins.

But the major floppage of his opera slasher put zero dents in Englund's career. He went on to sell out two more Freddy movies before moving on to other roles... including Victor Creel in Season 4 of Stranger Things.

Anyway, Vecna's Dad is the Phantom of the Opera.

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

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[vertigoartgore]

Kyle Reese and Sarah Connor vs the Terminator (the T-800 model). Art by Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira).

[mmadeinheavenn]

BILLY LENZ FROM BLACK CHRISTMAS RENTRY GRAPHICS

credit for the fanart is listed on the image, PLEASE credit me if you use them.

for day 1 of @essthereal 's event, christmas/green and red! Ill be honest I was stuck for a bit because I dont like christmas nor green and red but then I remembered one of my fav characters is from a christmas movie, even if its horror :3

- fairy lights dividers are by benkeibear

[esqueletosgays]

FINAL EXAM (1981)

Director: Jimmy Huston Cinematography: Darrell Catchart

[rottengurlz]

day 02: jock - @windbrook SLASHED challenge

[n8tism]

pov: the thing in the basement came alive and you have nowhere to go but your boybest friend's room

(slightly bloody version below)

[latenightsundayblues]

Came across some slasher band AU art by @arkunder and started frothing at the mouth

I like to imagine they'd do really performative concerts with the ghostface persona, like "killing" actresses on stage and being overall destructive to the point of losing gigs in nicer places so their fans don't completely wreck everything in a mosh pit (that they initiated) lmfao

Stu's the campiest bitch on the block (as expected)

[kings-paintbrush]

”Red Handed”

In this shitty 80’s horror flick leaching off the success of movies like John Carpenter’s The Thing, Nightmare on Elm Street, and Slumber Party Massacre; Red Handed was a flick following our Unnamed Slasher (Sara Munroe) and our Resilliant final girl, Violet (Varushka Chen), as the Slasher, who is a manifestation of violence and hatred, commits a series of bloody murders in the small town of HackenSack. the movie had an interesting twist, but the one thing that let it withstand the test of time was the good but dodgey prosthetic work.

It’s clung to the fur of the actors for years

Munroe’s short term success would come, not from her first lead role, but from her affliction from it. Behind the scenes Munroe would constantly complain about how uncomfortable the prosthetics are.

When interviewed in her home, Munroe states “Honestly? It makes doing my makeup really difficult.”

Our Fated Final Girl doesn’t make many statements, we assume because of her family’s strong hold in the industry— but we were able to get a few statements from her in a photoshoot by our good friends at PunkRat Magazine

“The once Child Actress requested a more— constrasty photo” states Tara. “We love having her here, she seemed so out of it though. Her boyfriend called many times but every time she’d just tell us to ignore it.”

there’s been no more news other than paparazzi spotting the two out on the town at many places.

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[cameronsprincess]

rafe cameron// 80’s slasher summer camp vibes⛺️🔪🖤

yeah, i used a lot of the “ahs 1984” stuff but i’m obsessed. rafe cameron in the 80’s as a summer camp counselor while they’re fighting for their lives… i love it. rafe would 100% be just like chet😭

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

[pixeldragon-45]

Guess what I just watched

[black-brained]

Ok we can all agree Daniel Robitaille would be a great boy friend but we can not ignore that there are fucking bees in his mouth... that mans going to go down on you and babe it’s all over!!!!

[esqueletosgays]

FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980)

Director: Sean S. Cunningham Cinematography: Barry Abrams

[licks-many-trees]

The Zepotha thing is so funny to me for a lot of reasons but partly cause these Tiktok people know nothing about slashers but are trying to make one up. They watched Stranger Things and *maybe* Fear Street and think they know what an 80's slasher is. The most consistent Zepotha killer is so clearly meant to be a Ghostface expy what with him being in the main cast and there being a mystery about who the killer is, which is a 90's slasher thing. 80's slashers were not about the whodunnit, there is no fuckin mystery about who Michael and Freddy are they just exist they're there.

Also the fuckass song is not at all accurate to an 80's slasher, they had compositions mimicking Halloween's theme usually! The Zepotha song is so clearly meant to mimic Stranger Things score and Stranger Things is not even close to a slasher it's a pastiche of Stephen King and the tropes are not the same it's maddening help I'm going crazy over here

[gl00mytuesday]

Everywhere to run. Nowhere to hide. They were warned...they are doomed...and, on Friday the 13th, nothing will save them.