The qualifications for a movie to be a slasher is a little more specific than some people think. On the surface, certain films seem like they might be, and maybe they're close, but the movies that EVERYONE agrees to be slashers usually include a killer with a more personal motive. I was watching Terror Train last night. Damaged little weirdo kills because he's butthurt over a prank. In The Burning, some guy kills because he's butthurt over a prank. F-13, Jason's mom kills because she's butthurt over her son being dead. in F-13 sequels, Jason kills because he's butthurt over his mom being dead. Leatherface kills for fun and food. Plus, he just runs all over the place, chasing them until he catches them. There's not really any hiding and stalking. Not methodical enough. Not a slasher.

Lol @ being butthurt for a loved one dying. Total lol.

So, does that mean Slumber Party Massacre and Final Exam aren't slashers since the killers have no motives?
And the original Halloween, ignoring the sequels, Michael had no motive, he was pure evil, not a slasher?

I'm not saying a movie can't be a slasher if there's no motive, or that's the only thing stopping TCM from being one. It is slasher-ish, but not enough to be in that category, imo.

So Halloween which is seen as some kind of pioneer of the slasher genre is actually slasher-ish?
Ok I agree for a movie that kickstarted the subgenre there are way better ones before and after it.

Halloween is far more a slasher than TCM.

Agree but I still think Halloween is pretty horrible.

Horrible you say?

Yes, as in sucks big time. Incredible you missed me expressing this opinion before on imdb.

All your posts on imdb were either about The Bad Seed, Dolls or your distaste for James Wan.

don't forget disliking BWP just to piss Lep of
That said I don't like it for real.
And now you will say watch that one in theatre too right

Watch what in a theater, Blair Witch?

I did back in '99. Didn't like it at all.

You forgot The Flesh Eaters (1964)

Agree to disagree.

Yeah. I've never seen TCM as one either. Of course if we were JRiddle, we would only see Halloween as a slasher and no other movie haha

I don't remember that, but if that's true, thank the fucking lord we're not JRiddle.

Haha yeah, it was in some thread about slashers on IMDB. I know, vague. Seemed when anyone made any slasher related thread on there he was right there to lecture people.

I say no, although it does have some of the key elements of slashers and was no doubt an influence on many of them.

I would say it belongs to the same subgenre as The Hills Have Eyes, Hunter's Blood, Just Before Dawn, and Slaughterhouse. It predates all of those and I'd say it, along with the earlier Deliverance, more or less started the backwoods inbred cannibal subgenre.

I would say it belongs to the same subgenre as The Hills Have Eyes, Hunter's Blood, Just Before Dawn, and Slaughterhouse.

I'd throw American Gothic (1988) in there too. And when I first started thinking about this, I thought maybe Morher's Day (1980) but that's really of the rape/revenge subgenre.