For What It's Worth regarding the state of horror movies today...The slasher flick really hasn't changed that much since the 70s when Friday, the Thirteenth and Halloween took the genre and turned it on its ear. In fact, slashers are pretty much formulaic.
* Slasher originally "died" or went into hiding, and came back.
* Add group of high school/college kids/young adults
* Put kids in abandoned building/countryside/cave/choose isolated location.
* Add a dash of sex,
* And slasher begins to off the kids one at a time.
* Hero and heroine are the only survivors...barely.
* They manage to get rid of/kill the slasher.
* End of movie...maybe.
We've seen a resurgence of zombies and vampires with new and exciting results. Just look at the "rabid" zombies of 28 Days Later, or the vamps in Let the Right One In or 30 Days of Night.
My question is this: when is the slasher genre going to get a reawakening like the others have?
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