Slasher Showdown: Freddy vs Jason vs Michael vs Chucky vs Leatherface (Part 1: 50-26)
"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&qu