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Slasher Showdown: Freddy vs Jason vs Michael vs Chucky vs Leatherface (Part 2: 25-1)

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Reminder: Spoilers Lay Below C-Tier (Cont'd):  25.  Halloween II (2009) "How'd you like to be fucked by the Frankenstein monster?" It's interesting this is the movie Rob Zombie had to be talked into making, because he actually seems far more consistently engaged with the material this time around. Unlike 2007's  Halloween , this movie actually does have a level of interest in its characters beyond "boy, ain't this all so fucked up?" Of all the " Halloween movie about the aftermath of living through a Halloween movie"'s, this feels the most dedicated to that idea. It's almost oppressive in its dour tone, especially in the director's cut. Yet it operates with a profound sense of empathy for its young female protagonist, the same character the first film felt almost entirely disinterested in. I suppose it makes sense that the "Living Dead Girl" author would have no handle on Laurie Strode: Normal Teenage Girl, but i...
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Slasher Showdown: Freddy vs Jason vs Michael vs Chucky vs Leatherface (Part 1: 50-26)

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"Jimbo, don't be such a dead fuck." What does it say about us as a culture that one of our most enduring sub-genres is watching depraved men hack up pretty teens into bits? That we rock and we like cool shit! Go USA! In my ever-growing attempt to figure out what exactly this blog is, I decided we'd pivot away from the territory of musical comedy that my first two articles have covered, lest people think all I do is talk about people who do funny songs. So we find ourselves in a completely different section of pop culture entirely. And I'm excited about this one, because, mm, I love me a good dumb horror movie.  In the "slasher" sub-genre, there exist several icons, but I'm willing to go out on a limb and say if you polled the general public, the five names you would hear the most would be Freddy, Jason, Michael, Chucky & Leatherface (who may be referred to as "the  Texas Chainsaw  guy", or even simply, "the guy with the chainsaw...
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