While it seems like slasher movies disappeared sometime in the early 2000s, approximately after the emergence of Scream and its flood of opportunistic imitators and cash-grabs, masked killers and their teenage fodder never truly went away. More accurately, major studios put a pause on big-budget slashers. In the meantime, indie filmmakers like Greg Huson kept the subgenre from disappearing altogether; his movie Shredder was one of several last dying breaths for old-fashioned, original slashers before splatter films and remakes began to flourish.
While the bigger and more notable slasher franchises haven’t exactly embraced ice-cold surroundings, movies like the Idaho-shot Shredder understand the potential fun and advantages of a wintry environment. It brings new meaning to the word “stranded.” The contrast between stark whites and deep reds is also a satisfying sight for horror fans, especially when a movie is as blanketed in white powder as this one. Right from the start,...
While the bigger and more notable slasher franchises haven’t exactly embraced ice-cold surroundings, movies like the Idaho-shot Shredder understand the potential fun and advantages of a wintry environment. It brings new meaning to the word “stranded.” The contrast between stark whites and deep reds is also a satisfying sight for horror fans, especially when a movie is as blanketed in white powder as this one. Right from the start,...
- 12/28/2022
- by Paul Lê
- bloody-disgusting.com
It's true there are slasher movies out there worse than Shredder. No budget nonsense that challenges the least discerning viewer to finish watching it.
You know exactly what I'm talking about. The kind of movie where kills happen off screen, people wander around aimlessly and the only scare comes from knowing you pissed away free time on something so banal. They've been around since the very birth of the slasher (see 1978's Savage Water, for the earliest example I'm aware of) and are made with alarming cluelessness today (The Graveyard). We'll always have terrible slasher films, as seemingly anyone can make them And get them distributed.
But Shredder's sins are perhaps the most egregious. Outfitted with a budget and a cast of working actors, equipped with technical prowess and filmmaking know how, this is still the best that co-writer/director Greg Huson could do. A mixture of horror and...
You know exactly what I'm talking about. The kind of movie where kills happen off screen, people wander around aimlessly and the only scare comes from knowing you pissed away free time on something so banal. They've been around since the very birth of the slasher (see 1978's Savage Water, for the earliest example I'm aware of) and are made with alarming cluelessness today (The Graveyard). We'll always have terrible slasher films, as seemingly anyone can make them And get them distributed.
But Shredder's sins are perhaps the most egregious. Outfitted with a budget and a cast of working actors, equipped with technical prowess and filmmaking know how, this is still the best that co-writer/director Greg Huson could do. A mixture of horror and...
- 9/8/2012
- by Masked Slasher
- DreadCentral.com
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