Halloween Slasher Night

Was at a slasher classics night yesterday.  Some great films I’d not seen ages (all originals no remakes of course, even though these weren’t my picks I might’ve raised objections otherwise 

Started with Halloween, ’tis amazing how much of this film becomes the absolute blueprint for everything else.  Great stuff and some good scares along the way.

Nightmare on Elm Street, the first one :-)   I’d forgotten how well made much of this is, apart from some atrocious acting (which this slasher hardly has a monopoly on) there’s some great effects, the girl getting killed in the bed flying to the ceiling etc..  and Jonny Depp’s moment of glory.  But still a scary enough concept to keep you interested.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre, by far the scariest of the three, despite very little on screen violence this is much more affecting than the modern “torture-porn”, just because the actual cutting is occurring just out of shot doesn’t mean any of it less mingin.

I know you’ve seen all these a dozen times but together they made a great movie night.
I was on anti-biotics so I didn’t even get any beer to make these easier to watch, still passed the grade