Movies That Redefined Its Genre

Wow, you're quite the horror movie expert. Psycho was released in 1960. The Night of the Living Dead was released in 1968. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was released in 1974. Shivers was released in 1975. The Hills Have Eyes was released in 1977. Halloween was released in 1978. Friday the 13th was released in 1980.

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Ahem... OWNED.

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Night of the Living Dead wasn't even a slasher film, niether was Psycho in my opinion. So I stand by what I said before. By the way, I'm not getting defensive, just. . .well you know.

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I think Psycho is a slasher film. Knife + Psycho + Helpless Victim = Slasher Film.

i said i think, i didn't go into a 20 post debate and stand behind that, it was just a guess really, i just don't see the purpose of the sardonism

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Slasher films to me are movies like Friday the 13th, Halloween, Scream, Nightmare on Elm Street and things like that. Norman Bates didn't have the body count Freddy and Jason did. That's what I think of when I hear "slasher film."

Slasher films= Movies with mass body counts at the end. And the fact that you get to see them get impaled or chopped up helps to.

Does anyone else think that Tarentino invented a new genre.
How long before we see more "Western Kung Fu" in Hollywood.

The Hero looks pretty sweet.....old fasioned at best.

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interesting, one man starting a new wave of movies

I'd go for Resident Evil - first popular / successful game crossover

I think the matrix too - not so much to invent / redefine a new genre, but more about a new way thinking about existence, or at least it was when it was made as Ghost in the Shell and before the W bothers copied it

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from whom did they copy it??

He's saying the Warchowski Bros. were likely influenced by the Manga/Anime classic Ghost in the Shell (1995), which has similar psyedo-philosophical components, as well as a like-minded conspiracy and notion of the world as only a dream. It's not an exact copy, but there are definite similarities. Check it out for yourself and see if you agree.

That's a great film.

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i'll try and stop by a Suncoast and rent it

A.Ghost in the Shell is awesome.
B.Tarantino did not invent a new style of film, he just fused a whole bunch together.Such as Spaghetti western,Kung fu,heist. Nothing special, mind you Tarantino is good.

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Originally Posted by Holden Pike
Wow, you're quite the horror movie expert. Psycho was released in 1960. The Night of the Living Dead was released in 1968. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was released in 1974. Shivers was released in 1975. The Hills Have Eyes was released in 1977. Halloween was released in 1978. Friday the 13th was released in 1980.

i said i think, i didn't go into a 20 post debate and stand behind that, it was just a guess really, i just don't see the purpose of the sardonism



Such power, such wasted energy.

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Holden - exactly !!

I'm not the hugest fan of Manga in the world, but Ghost in the Shell is absolute quality.

To say the W brothers copied it is of course false, but there are definate similarities as you point out and you can see where the idea came from

There IS possibility for a somewhat ripoff. Then again we don't know what they were thinking.

Wouldn't the affected contagious disease film have started with "Night of the Living Dead"? One chomp by one of these zombies and you would have become like them. Dead (by the virus or disease from the bite) and living (the virus carried into the unliving corpse and sustaining it). Or did they die from the natural cause of bleeding out? I'm having a little trouble remembering this in the movie.

Great list. I agree with all of them. Only thing I could add is Dawn of the Dead the original started a new Era in horror movies, the splatter craze. That's about it.

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