Slasher Movie Tournament

[EnderDeschain]

The Deal – 128 of the coolest slasher flicks ever, only one of which will murderalize the competition. I’ll be calling the match-ups and posting new ones at approximately 8pm central every other day, all the way up until Halloween. Yep, that’s how long this is gonna last. I selected the contenders through various “Best Slasher” lists and such.

What’s happened so far-
ROUND ONE
1. Halloween (8 votes) defeated My Bloody Valentine (0 votes)
2. High Tension (4 votes) defeated Hatchet (2 votes)
3. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (3 votes) defeated Wolf Creek (2 votes)
4. Child’s Play 2 (4 votes) defeated Night of the Demons (1 vote)
5. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) (6 votes) defeated Terror Train (3 votes)
6. Freddy Vs Jason (7 votes) defeated Friday the 13th pt 7: The New Blood (3 votes)
7. Scream (7 votes) defeated The Hills Have Eyes (0 votes)
8. Sleepaway Camp (6 votes) defeated Wrong Turn (0 votes)
9. Child's Play (7 votes) defeated I Know What You Did Last Summer (1 vote)
10. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (5 votes) defeated Urban Legend (2 votes)
11. Saw (10 votes) defeated When A Stranger Calls (2 votes)
12. Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (6 votes) defeated A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 (5 votes)
13. The Funhouse (2 votes) defeated Happy Birthday To Me (1 vote)
14. Bride Of Chucky (3 votes) defeated The Slumber Party Massacre (2 votes)
15. From Hell (3 votes) defeated Prom Night (2 votes)
16. The Hills Have Eyes (2006) (3 votes) defeated Just Before Dawn (1 vote)
17. American Psycho (8 votes) defeated Halloween 2 (1 vote)
18. The Devil's Rejects (3 votes) defeated Phantom of the Mall (1 vote)
19. Peeping Tom (5 votes) defeated My Bloody Valentine (2009) (0 votes)
20. Black Christmas (4 votes) defeated Club Dread (1 vote)
21. Idle Hands (3 votes) defeated Friday the 13th pt 8: Jason Takes Manhattan (1 vote)
22. Sleepaway Camp 2 (4 votes) defeated Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (0 votes)
23. Hellraiser (4 votes) defeated Violent Midnight (1 vote)
24. New Nightmare (5 votes) defeated Cherry Falls (0 votes)
25. Saw 2 (5 votes) defeated Halloween: Resurrection (0 votes)
26. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2 votes) defeated House Of Wax (1 vote)
27. Hellraiser 3 (2 votes) defeated Alice Sweet Alice (1 vote)
28. A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (4 votes) defeated Motel Hell (0 votes)
29. House of 1000 Corpses (4 votes) defeated Popcorn (0 votes)
30. Saw 3 (3 votes) defeated Behind The Mask: The Rises of Leslie Vernon (2 votes)
31. Final Destination (6 votes) defeated The Burning (0 votes)
32. The Stepfather (2 votes) defeated Strangeland (1 vote)
33. Shocker (5 votes) defeated Friday the 13th pt 5: A New Beginning (2 votes)
34. A Nightmare on Elm Street (7 votes) defeated The Final Terror (0 votes)
35. Jason X (5 votes) defeated Halloween (2007) (3 votes)
36. Madman (2 votes) defeated Malevolence (0 votes)
37. Scream 2 (7 votes) defeated Cut (0 votes)
38. Night School (1 vote) defeated He Knows You're Alone (0 votes)
39. Sweeney Todd (6 votes) defeated Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (0 votes)
40. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (5 votes) defeated The Initiation (0 votes)
41. Child's Play 3 (5 votes) defeated See No Evil (1 vote)
42. The Strangers (6 votes) defeated Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday (1 vote)
43. Candyman (6 votes) defeated The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1 vote)
44. Final Destination 3 (5 votes) defeated The Toolbox Murders (2 votes)

The current match-ups-
45. Maniac vs. Psycho
46. Seed Of Chucky vs. Suspiria


VOTE OR DIE!

[EnderDeschain]

ROUND ONE

1.
Halloween (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077651/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/Halloween.jpg
Year: 1978
Some hack named John Carpenter introduced the world to some nobody named Michael Myers. Also someone called Jamie Lee Curtis. All involved parties have since faded into obscurity.

VS

My Bloody Valentine ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082782/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/MyBloodyValentine.jpg
Year: 1981
The opening scene alone is worth the price of admission. Also the cool little rhyme, which will stick with you for at least twenty-two years or so.


2.
High Tension (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338095/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/HighTension.jpg
Year: 2003
There’s some sort of feminist theme, or lesbian theme, or lesbian feminist theme or something going on here, as well as subtitles. But in the meantime a bunch of people die, so it’s all good.

VS

Hatchet (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0422401/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/Hatchet.jpg
Year: 2006
Kane Hodder, afraid of being typecast, decides to play a serial killer for a change. Also features Robert Englund and Tony Todd, and while their roles are virtual cameos it shows how much this film loves it’s own genre.


1. Halloween vs. My Bloody Valentine
2. High Tension vs. Hatchet

[Dhamon22]

Halloween

Hatchet

[Jordan KO]

Halloween

[SnoBorderZero]

Haven't seen either from #2 so won't vote, but absolutely "Halloween" for #1. Nice thread idea BTW Ender.

[FranklinTard]

high tension

[Ramplate]

Halloween

haven't seen the other two

[Starwars411]

Halloween

Hatchet

[Matrix_Fan]

Halloween

High Tension

[Papa]

Halloween

High Tension [really ****ed up movie, but i enjoyed it]

[EnderDeschain]

Cool. The results:

1. Halloween (8 votes) defeated My Bloody Valentine (0 votes)
2. High Tension (4 votes) defeated Hatchet (2 votes)

[EnderDeschain]

3.
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089686/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/Nightmare2.jpg
Year: 1985
Freddy Krueger returns to possess some loser and take over his body. Has a kick-ass pool party scene and a shower scene that may or may not be homoerotic, depending on how straight you are.

VS

Wolf Creek ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416315/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/WolfCreek.jpg
Year: 2005
The Australian outback, home of kangaroos and Crocodile Dundee and death. Grizzly, horrible, yet sometimes amusing death.

4.
Night of the Demons (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093624/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/NightOfTheDemons.jpg
Year: 1988
There’s a scene in this that’s haunted me for twenty years. You know the one I’m talking about, the one involving lipstick. Gawd, that was freaky.

VS

Child’s Play 2 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099253/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/ChildsPlay2.jpg
Year:1990
Chucky the killer doll comes back to wreak knee-high havoc on Andy and his foster family. Pint-sized hilarity ensues.

3. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge vs. Wolf Creek
4. Night of the Demons vs. Child’s Play 2

[Matrix_Fan]

Both sucked, but Nightmare On Elm Street 2 wins due to being so goddamn hilarious.

As for the 2nd pair, Child's Play 2. Teacher + Ruler = Death....classic.

[Ramplate]

can't vote I've only seen CP2 and NoES2

[Dhamon22]

Wolf Creek

Child's Play 2

[FranklinTard]

nightmare

childs play

[ViRUs]

nightmare

childs play

[EnderDeschain]

Hnn. This is actually going better than I expected. Thanks for voting, folks. I vote for Wolf Creek and Night of the Demons, making the results:

3. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (3 votes) defeated Wolf Creek (2 votes)
4. Child’s Play 2 (4 votes) defeated Night of the Demons (1 vote)

[EnderDeschain]

5.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0324216/) (2003)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/TexasChainsaw03.jpg
Year: 2003
The first of the Platinum Dunes remakes, it introduced the “reimagining” concept to the American horror crowd. Features Jessica Biel in all her superhot glory, but no breasts. :( That makes me a sad panda. :(

VS

Terror Train (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081617/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/TerrorTrain.jpg
Year: 1980
The killer alternates between super-goofy masks, which doesn’t help his intimidation factor much. But it has a cool ending and a scene that’s genuinely touching, which is a rarity for 80’s slashers.

6.
Friday the 13th pt 7: The New Blood (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095179/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/F13-7.jpg
Year: 1988
The first time genre giant Kane Hodder donned the hockey mask, this has Jason Voorhees fighting a chick with telekinesis. It’s every bit as cool as it sounds.

VS

Freddy Vs Jason (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0329101/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/FreddyVsJason.jpg
Year: 2003
Ten years in the making, the two horror icons duke it out in what is likely the last entry in their respective original series’, before Platinum Dunes got hold of them.

5. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) vs. Terror Train
6. Friday the 13th pt 7: The New Blood vs. Freddy Vs Jason

[krushgroove19]

terror train

the new blood

[Ramplate]

Texas Chainsaw - good remake, although not as raw as the original

Friday the 13th Part 7 - not hard to beat Freddy vs Jason is it?

[Matrix_Fan]

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Freddy Vs. Jason

[N2NOther]

Terror Train.

The New Blood.

TCM was horrible. Yuck.

[IanTheCool]

I really like your idea of a recap on the first.

However, I have hardly seen any of these movies. I have seen F vs J, so I'll vote for that one.

[Dhamon22]

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Freddy vs. Jason

[jbailey84]

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (liked the remake better than the original)

Freddy vs. Jason (F13 pt VII was terrible)



all the way to halloween eh?

[Jordan KO]

I'll go with what i cared enough to see: Texas Chainsaw Massacre & Freddy vs. Jason

[HaDoKen]

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Freddy vs. Jason

[charlesleeray]

Clown house vs killer klowns from outer space

[Jordan KO]

no duuuuuude you vote on what the host posts

[charlesleeray]

no duuuuuude you vote on what the host posts

sorry dude

im new here

[Jordan KO]

its okay

[EnderDeschain]

Clown house vs killer klowns from outer space

Cool name. I can't believe I forgot to put Killer Klowns in this. Goddamnit, that one HAS to be on here. I'm gonna change the brackets to include it, I can't believe I missed that. It definitely fits in the slasher subcategory, even though it has elements that are rather unusual for it, so I'll figure out what to replace with it later. But for now, I vote Terror Train and Freddy Vs Jason, making the results:

5. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) (6 votes) defeated Terror Train (3 votes)
6. Freddy Vs Jason (7 votes) defeated Friday the 13th pt 7: The New Blood (3 votes)

[EnderDeschain]

7.
The Hills Have Eyes (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077681/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/TheHillsHaveEyes.jpg
Year: 1977
I deliberated a bit on whether or not to include this. The deciding factor was the remake, which I figured has to be in here ‘cuz it’s a slasher flick disguised as something else. And if it’s gonna be in, then this should too.

VS

Scream (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117571/ )
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/Scream.jpg
Year: 1996
Another Wes Craven flick, but this one started the late-90’s slasher revival that temporarily revitalized the genre by injecting it with self-awareness and in-jokes.

8.
Sleepaway Camp (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086320/ )
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/SleepawayCamp.jpg
Year: 1983
In a shocking, mold-breaking move, this flick places a bunch of teens in a summer camp and has a killer off them one by one. A lot of it’s unintentionally funny, but you won’t see the ending coming, plus this is the first chapter in one of the better genre trilogies.

VS

Wrong Turn (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0295700/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/WrongTurn.jpg
Year: 2003
When will those city folk learn? This is kind of like Deliverance meets…well, Deliverance. But without the pig noises. Or the dueling banjos.

7. The Hills Have Eyes vs. Scream
8. Sleepaway Camp vs. Wrong Turn

[jbailey84]

Scream

Sleepaway Camp


yea how could you forget Killer Klowns From Outerspace? im acutally gonna watch that now :D

[EnderDeschain]

yea how could you forget Killer Klowns From Outerspace? im acutally gonna watch that now :D

Word. I guess I got ate up with the dumbass, 'cuz that movie is pure win. The scene in the jailhouse used to give me nightmares when I was younger, just the way it was shot and something about its presentation seemed exceptionally wigtastic. That could really be a dark horse in this tournament.

I haven't been able to discuss much since I started this 'cuz it was a crazy week and weekend, but now I will. JBailey, I agree with you on the TCM remake being far better than the original. I never really understood the love that movie gets, and the second one especially was just horrible. And Ramplate, you didn't like FVJ? I thought it was great. It had a lot of flaws, especially coming into it as more of a Jason fan than a Freddy fan, but I thought for the most part it lived up to its considerable expectations. The actors were all laughable, but we're used to that in these flicks. What Robert Englund does with Freddy, in all of them but this one in particular, is just incomparable. His hammy, sorta B-movie approach to it is perfectly over-the-top, and while a lot of people preferred the scary Freddy from part one and New Nightmare I think there's a lot to be said for this version as well. Jason was mishandled in some ways but I loved how they each got to meet the other in enemy territory, how both had homefield advantage in the respective fight scenes and there was no chincing on the blood and gore. Looking back on it, it's kind of appropriate that this is the last movie in the original Friday and Nightmare series', because by this point they had both become something larger than themselves anyway. Putting them together was a fitting way to send them off.

And since I don't know where else to put it, I was going through my old pictures and found this the other day:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/MeF13Poster.jpg

That's me when I was twelve. I got that poster when it was coming out and I was so damn proud of it, I was a pretty big genre fan at the time. Still am, I guess. But it was different then, you couldn't just hop on the internets and buy posters all willy-nilly on Ebay like I do now. I had to call a couple of theaters and find an employee who was willing to sell me the poster from the actual cinema, and got it for like twenty bucks or something. My mom drove me to pick it up, it was a whole deal and I really kinda miss **** like that. Now all I gotta do is click "BUY NOW" on Ebay or Amazon, it's kinda taken something away from owning things of that sort. On the other hand, now I'm 32 and my house is covered in whatever movie and Supergirl and UFC posters I want, in fact I'm running out of room, so that Ebay stuff is kinda pwn in it's own way too.

Hey, it's my thread, I can junk it up just a little, can't I? I won't do it again.

[jbailey84]

not a F13 part VIII poster! :P

yea with the TCM remake i loved the b&w "archive" footage at the beginning and ending with it. i liked how Leatherface seemed intimidating and not some whiny killer.

and i agree with you about FVJ. it was cool how they both had their homefield advantages, though they did get Jason's eye wrong that always bugs me.

whats your thoughts on the F13 remake?

[krushgroove19]

scream

sleepaway camp

[Jordan KO]

Freddy wins Hahaha, hello my children!!!!!

i vote Scream

[unhappycamper87]

7. Scream

8. Angela Baker FTW

[Dhamon22]

Scream

Sleepaway Camp

[FranklinTard]

scream

sleepaway camp

[EnderDeschain]

whats your thoughts on the F13 remake?

It did a lot right. I actually ended up liking the revamping of Jason into this uber-hunter, and thought it was mostly good. But the things it got wrong, it got very wrong. All in all I wasn't too disappointed with it.

I vote Scream and Sleepaway Camp. The results:

7. Scream (7 votes) defeated The Hills Have Eyes (0 votes)
8. Sleepaway Camp (6 votes) defeated Wrong Turn (0 votes)

Damn. That was far less competitive than I expected. Since I missed Sunday and deviated from my schedule as a result, I'm ending this one today to get back on. But from now on it'll be every other day again, unless I screw up and miss another day. Which is entirely likely.

I've replaced Maniac with Killer Klowns From Outer Space. I know that Maniac is something of a cult classic and should really be included, but I think Killer Klowns is even more deserving so I swapped 'em.

[EnderDeschain]

9.
Child’s Play (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094862/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/ChildsPlay.jpg
Year: 1988
The opening sequence is the first and only time we actually see Charles Lee Ray. But we become very familiar with Chucky.

VS

I Know What You Did Last Summer (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119345/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/IKnowWhatYouDid.jpg
Year: 1997
What we learned from this movie: fishermen are sorta psycho, Jennifer Love Hewitt can’t act, and Ryan Phillippe is kind of a dick.

10.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072271/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/TexasChainsaw.jpg
Year: 1974
Heralded as one of the scariest films ever made by people like Rob Zombie, Empire magazine, and my mom.

VS

Urban Legend (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146336/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/UrbanLegend.jpg
Year: 1998
This flick has at least two things going for it: Pacey dies and the killer is pretty hot.

9. Child’s Play vs. I Know What You Did Last Summer
10. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre vs. Urban Legend

[Ramplate]

Oh I missed that vote - Scream is good, but Sleepaway Camp sucked - I would have voted Wrong Turn even though the acting and script aren't great

this one - Child's Play is an easy choice
and for the second one I like both - but for the rawness of it and ground breaking camera work
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

[EnderDeschain]

Sleepaway Camp is kinda crappy, but you gotta give it to the ending, at least. Plus it's pretty damn funny. But to me the main reason I voted for it was it gave way to Sleepaway Camp 2, which is definitely one of my favorite movies in this tourney. Wrong Turn was probably actually more fun to watch than the original Sleepaway, but for the sake of historical importance I went the other way.

For this one, I vote I Know What You Did and Urban Legend. I actually liked I Know at the time, when it came out, 'cuz up to that point the only movies in the new wave of slashers were it and Scream. We hadn't yet been inundated with **** like Cherry Falls, Valentine, and Urban Legend to ruin it yet. Speaking of, Urban Legend pretty well sucked and was generally stupid, but it is absolutely impossible for me to vote for Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I ****ing hate that movie. The first one, I mean. It isn't scary, it just goes on and on, it has some of the worst direction and the most annoying-ass characters ever, I ****ing HATE that movie. So that's more an anti-TCM vote than anything.

[EnderDeschain]

Plus Child's Play just wasn't that good. If this were part 2 or 3 I'd vote for 'em, but the first one on it's own just didn't do much for me.

[Tardumb]

I'm gonna say Child's Play for making me a little bit scared of some of my toys when I was a little, and.................Urban Legend, because the original TCM never really scared me at all.

Not that UL did scare me, but I still say it's more entertaining.

[krushgroove19]

child's play

texas chain saw massacre.

[charlesleeray]

Child's play

Texas chainsaw

This one was no contest. I diddnt even have to think about it.

[Jordan KO]

Child' play

[jbailey84]

Child's play

Texas chainsaw

[Dhamon22]

Child's Play

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

[EnderDeschain]

The results:

9. Child's Play (7 votes) defeated I Know What You Did Last Summer (1 vote)
10. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (5 votes) defeated Urban Legend (2 votes)

[EnderDeschain]

11.
Saw (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387564/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/Saw.jpg
Year: 2004
The movie that surprised everyone with its success, spawning four sequels and still going strong. Jigsaw doesn’t kill people, he helps them kill themselves. So he’s like a kinder, gentler mass murderer.

VS

When A Stranger Calls (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080130/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/WhenAStrangerCalls.jpg
Year: 1979
A babysitter’s in the house, someone starts calling her from a SHOCKING location, et cetera. Everyone knows the bookend story. There’s a whole lot more to this flick, but that’s what everybody remembers.

12.
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095742/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/Nightmare4.jpg
Year: 1988
Freddy Krueger comes back again to terrorize some dumbass teen-agers. Contains the famous junkyard scene, as well as a chick who turns into a roach. Seriously.

VS
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087298/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/F13-4.jpg
Year: 1984
Jason Voorhees comes back again to terrorize some dumbass teen-agers. But this time it’s THE FINAL CHAPTER! No I mean it, for reals! It says it right there in the title!!

11. Saw vs. When A Stranger Calls
12. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master vs. Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter

[Jordan KO]

Saw & Nightmare on elm street 4

[krushgroove19]

when a stranger calls

nightmare on elm street 4

[HaDoKen]

saw

[Ramplate]

Saw - just because the original was that different.

Don't know which is the lesser of the two evils in the second contest - I guess I have to say

Nightmare 4 - just because they have to be more creative than pure slasher

[Dhamon22]

Saw

Nightmare On Elm Street 4

[jbailey84]

Saw (freakin love that ending)

F13 pt IV (one of the best)

[Matrix_Fan]

Saw

Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter

[Darth Maul]

Saw

Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter

[EnderDeschain]

I vote for When A Stranger Calls and Friday 4. When Saw came out it was friggin awesome, that ending just blew me away. I remember discussing it here somewhere and trying to spell out that music that plays at the end, the "Hello Zepp" theme. That isn't very easy. But I was thinking about themes for movies and how there haven't been any for quite some time that achieved any real success, like you hear it and automatically know it's from such-and-such movie. The Saw theme is one of those, the only one I can think of in the last ten or fifteen years. You just don't hear stuff like the Halloween or Nightmare themes anymore, but this achieved something close.

Anyway, all that being said, When A Stranger Calls is just better. There's a lot of **** in that flick that's completely unexpected, and I remember there being at least one or two parts that were genuinely scary. As for Friday 4, I always thought that was the best of the "live Jason" bunch, meaning the first four. Then after five (blargh) he turned Zombie Jason and it became a whole other thing. But part four was good, I dig the part where what's-his-face gets killed and is yelling "He's killing me!" It's kind of amusing, but there was something also really effective about that scene. There's also Crispin Glover with his epileptic dance and "dead fish" and the corkscrew thing, that **** is classic. Nightmare 4 I don't really remember much about, mainly just the cockroach thing and the ***** turning all badass at the end, which struck me as kind of stupid.

So 64 movies isn't gonna make it 'til Halloween. When I planned it out I inadvertently counted it out as if I were posting one battle at a time, not two. So it turns out it was only gonna take half as long as I'd planned, and having it end right at Halloween is really important to me for some reason. So I reorganized everything, reseeded the whole shebang, and threw in 64 more. So this is now a 128-movie tournament. The second round will go one per day, but this round will be every other day after next week, which will skip a couple days. Yeah, I know, who gives a ****, but I just wanted to explain myself a little. There's gonna be a lot of stuff in it now that no one's ever heard of, probably, but that's just in the first round. Round two, which will start on Friday, September 11th (I have it all planned out on a calendar and yes, that date is a pure coincidence) should be where it gets more accessible. In the meantime I encourage you guys to vote even if you haven't seen stuff.

I'll call this set and the next match-ups will be up in 24 hours. I haven't made the new brackets yet but as soon as I do I will send them to two people again. This won't effect what's already happened at all, I juggled stuff around to keep the battles that have already happened in it as they were.

[jbailey84]

i loved Jason as a zombie in pt. 6 (the best) but pt.4 is the second best. lol that dance of crispin glover i remember watching on the dvd that the director said action and thats how he danced.

[wall jumper]

Saw

Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter

[J1gS4w]

Saw (Pretty obvious for me)

Nightmare On Elm Street 4

[EnderDeschain]

Gosh darn it. There's a friggin tie between Friday 4 and Nightmare 4. Could someone break it?

[Jordan KO]

Neither can winnnn, there both immortal. Didn't u see Freddy vs. Jason

[EnderDeschain]

Yes, I saw it, and I seem to recall Jason carrying Freddy's severed head at the end of it. I think we all know who won there, they just had to throw in that goofy wink so Freddy fans wouldn't feel all butt-hurt.

[EnderDeschain]

That was a joke, by the way. I forgot to smiley. :)

If this were a lesser match-up, I would change my vote just to move things along. But this is one where I really believe Friday should win, and therefore am not willing to do so. Of course I realize that by saying this I've pretty much made sure that whoever breaks the tie votes for Nightmare, but ah well. At least it won't be my fault.

[Jordan KO]

Yeah i know i would've said its a win for Jason but i saw the Sequel Freddy vs Jason 2 the best damn sequel ever, they tie at sports

[Papa]

Saw

Friday The 13t

[jbailey84]

good job Paps ;)

[EnderDeschain]

Yes, thank you, Papa sir. I had put on my stubborn-face and was determined to wait forever if I had to for someone to break the goddamn thing. The results:

11. Saw (10 votes) defeated When A Stranger Calls (2 votes)
12. Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (6 votes) defeated A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (5 votes)

[EnderDeschain]

13.
Happy Birthday To Me (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082498/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/HappyBDay2Me.jpg
Year: 1981
Has an ending that, though kind of stupid, is unpredictable. The kills are pretty awesome, too. The weight bench kill alone is one of the best in the genre.

VS

The Funhouse (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082427/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/Funhouse.jpg
Year: 1981
Some big deformed-ass dude kills a bunch of kids in a carnival funhouse. There’s also a moral about not stealing money or some ****, and a prostitute scene that’s a little disturbing.

14.
The Slumber Party Massacre (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084695/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/SlumberPartyMassacre.jpg
Year: 1982
A guy kills a bunch of teen-age girls with his long, rock-hard drill while saying things like “you know you want it. You love it.” I don’t see how there could possibly be any subtext here. And look at that poster. Subtle.

VS
Bride Of Chucky (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144120/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/BrideOfChucky.jpg
Year: 1998
Chucky goes on his fourth killing spree as a doll, and this time has some help in the form of his equally diminutive plastic wife. Midgets played them in the fight scene towards the end. Midgets are funny.

13. Happy Birthday To Me vs. The Funhouse
14. The Slumber Party Massacre vs. Bride Of Chucky

[krushgroove19]

happy birthday to me

slumber party massacre

[jbailey84]

The Funhouse

Slumber Party Massacre (hated Bride of Chucky)

[HaDoKen]

bride of chucky

[Dhamon22]

The Funhouse

Bride Of Chucky

[EnderDeschain]

I vote Happy Birthday To Me and Bride Of Chucky. I used to like Funhouse and it freaked me out a lot when I was little, but it hasn't aged well. Neither has Birthday, but it has that weight bench scene, and that alone earns my vote. Slumber Party Massacre was pure ****in trash, with almost no redeeming value at all. Bride Of Chucky at least was funny.

[EnderDeschain]

There is another tie, gosh darn. I don't feel like waiting another day for someone to break it, so I'll just withdraw my vote for Happy Birthday To Me (even though I think it shoulda won). That makes the results of this thrilling and ultra-competitive round:

13. The Funhouse (2 votes) defeated Happy Birthday To Me (1 vote)
14. Bride Of Chucky (3 votes) defeated The Slumber Party Massacre (2 votes)

[EnderDeschain]

15.
Prom Night (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081383/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/PromNight.jpg
Year: 1980
Jamie Lee Curtis and her friends are stalked by a killer, who turns out to be her brother. What a great concept, I can’t believe no one thought of that before.

VS

From Hell (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120681/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/FromHell.jpg
Year: 2001
Johnny Depp is a wacky strung-out detective (or something), and Heather Graham is an entirely-too-gorgeous-for-the-Victorian-era prostitute in this flick about the original slasher, Jack the Ripper.

16.
Just Before Dawn (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082592/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/JustBeforeDawn.jpg
Year: 1981
Those poor country folk. They’re always being typified as brick-dumb inbred tards who don’t know their sister’s ass from a hole in the ground. But I guess if the club-footed shoe fits et cetera. This has an early version of the super-feminist Final Girl model more commonly used today.

VS

The Hills Have Eyes (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454841/) (2006)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/TheHillsHaveEyes06.jpg
Year: 2006
More inbred dumbass maniacs, but this time they’re in the desert and irradiated. I admit it, that big-brain dude towards the end gave me the ****in creeps.

15. Prom Night vs. From Hell
16. Just Before Dawn vs. The Hills Have Eyes (2006)

[jbailey84]

From Hell

The Hills Have Eyes

[Jordan KO]

haha im recording From Hell now,
the hills have eyes is crazy

[krushgroove19]

prom night

the hills have eyes

[Ramplate]

Prom Night

I really didn't like the messing around with the Ripper story. (Or maybe it had something to do with the bastardization of the Sleepy Hollow story I saw before it, carry over spoilage - they both looked good, but something about the story flow really bugged me)

I haven't seen both of the others

[Dhamon22]

From Hell

The Hills Have Eyes

[EnderDeschain]

****, edit. I didn't see Dhamon's vote before I posted this, so that changes this. I vote From Hell and Just Before Dawn. Honestly, Dawn is just a sympathy vote as I didn't really like it all that much. It had some good moments and good ingredients, but mostly it sucked. Especially the ridiculous ending. So the results:

15. From Hell (3 votes) defeated Prom Night (2 votes)
16. The Hills Have Eyes (2006) (3 votes) defeated Just Before Dawn (1 vote)

[EnderDeschain]

17.
Halloween 2 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082495/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/Halloween2.jpg
Year: 1981
It takes place almost entirely in a hospital, which alone is pretty unusual. But there’s other cool **** like Michael strolling through a plate-glass window, and Bud dying. I ****ing hate Bud.

VS

American Psycho (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144084/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/AmericanPsycho.jpg
Year: 2000
Patrick Bateman is a high-fallutin’ white collar stud who likes Huey Lewis, the color “bone”, and skin moisturizer. He is really good at mergers and acquisitions, in fact he merges and acquisitions lots of people.

18.
The Devil’s Rejects (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395584/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/DevilsRejects.jpg
Year: 2005
Otis, Baby, and Captain Spaulding are on the run from the law, and kill some folks while they’re at it. This movie features horror staples Sid Haig and Ken Foree.

VS

Phantom of the Mall (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098089/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/PhantomOfTheMall.jpg
Year: 1989
This one also features Ken Foree. But there are two things this movie shows that other slasher flicks don’t: a death by escalator (which is pretty cool), and Pauly Shore’s ass (which is most assuredly not cool).

17. Halloween 2 vs. American Psycho
18. The Devil’s Rejects vs. Phantom of the Mall

[jbailey84]

American Psycho (i wish i had a toned body like Bale in that movie)

Devil's Rejects (i loved Ho1C, didnt mind the sequel)

[Dhamon22]

American Psycho

Devil's Rejects

[krushgroove19]

american psycho

the devil's rejects

[Ramplate]

Halloween 2 - A.P. was rather strange and boring to me.

Haven't seen Phantom and didn't care for Rejects so I can't vote on those

[EnderDeschain]

I vote American Psycho and Phantom of the Mall. Ramplate, I agree about AP being very out-there and a little draggy at points, but that worked for me. It was a very unorthodox way to present the subject matter. There are certain scenes that are just unspeakably killer, like when he first attacks Jared Leto to the strains of Huey Lewis in the background. "Try getting a reservation at Dorsia now, you stupid bastard!" Lulz. The ATM telling him to feed it a cat, the part where the cop car blows up and he just stares at his gun in disbelief, the revolving door scene. That movie was full of awesome moments. Halloween 2 is awesome as well, especially the ending, but it's nowhere near as good as the first.

I dug the hell out Devil's Rejects. It was much better than House of 1000 Corpses and Otis is one of my favorite slasher movie characters ever. But Phantom is just awesome 80's cornball ridiculousness. With its blatant anti-capitalist Reaganomics-bashing subtext that isn't really very sub, Pauly Shore being annoying as ****, and some of the roomiest goddamn A/C vents ever, it is great to get drunk during.

[Jordan KO]

American psycho FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ooh and i really friggin hate Rob zombie

[Justin]

American Psycho

[donny]

American Psycho

[HaDoKen]

American Psycho

[EnderDeschain]

Wow. I wouldn't call the first match-up an upset, as I thought American Psycho might win, but I didn't figure it'd be such a rout. I thought the margin would be much slimmer. The results:

17. American Psycho (8 votes) defeated Halloween 2 (1 vote)
18. The Devil's Rejects (3 votes) defeated Phantom of the Mall (1 vote)

[EnderDeschain]

19.
My Bloody Valentine (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1179891/) (2009)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/MyBloodyValentine09.jpg
Year: 2009
There’s a killer running around in a miner’s mask and outfit and stuff, which makes for one bad-ass visual. Has some outstanding gratuitous nudity, which is especially awesome in 3D.

VS

Peeping Tom (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054167/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/PeepingTom.jpg
Year: 1960
The story of a lonely, awkward schlub who happens to like killing chicks, and videoing them while he does it. This flick was so far ahead of its time that it was frowned upon for thirty years.

20.
Club Dread (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0331953/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/ClubDread.jpg
Year: 2004
From the folks who brought us Super Troopers comes this off-beat little gem. It’s a comedy, sure, but it’s also by every classification a slasher movie.

VS

Black Christmas (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071222/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/BlackChristmas.jpg
Year: 1974
Lois Lane and her friends get stalked by a wack-job full of yuletide insanity. This and Halloween are widely considered the slasher genre’s most important forerunners, and this was actually made four years before Halloween. It is arguably scarier, as well.

19. My Bloody Valentine (2009) vs. Peeping Tom
20. Club Dread vs. Black Christmas

[Justin]

Peeping Tom

[EnderDeschain]

Have you not seen Black Christmas? If not, I advise you to do so immediately. That you've seen Peeping Tom implies you've seen more than most. I vote Peeping Tom and Black Christmas.

If Psycho is the grandfather of the slasher flick, then Peeping Tom is its forgotten granduncle. Is that a real word, granduncle, or did I just make that up? Anyway, that movie was just amazing. It was released about four months before Psycho. There were times when it was truly unsettling, but the most surprising thing is the humor. It has a really dark sense of humor, which was very out of place for the time, and it wasn't received very well as a result. It is quite funny a lot of the time. But it's ****in sad too, I will admit to crying at the end. "I wish I could've found your faces for you." :waa: On the other hand, My Bloody Valentine was pretty killer. Obviously they're two completely different movies designed for completely different audiences, so this is a case where I can understand a person preferring MBV if that's more their type of movie.

But with Black Christmas, I can not see any conceivable stretch of logic by which one would vote against it. Especially not now. That movie is a goddamn masterpiece. It did a lot of things Halloween did well before Halloween did it, and even the outstanding When A Stranger Calls borrowed elements from this flick. As near as I can tell this is the first REAL slasher movie with every element you expect out of it. An argument can be made against stuff like Peeping Tom or its contemporaries really fitting the genre. Psycho doesn't fit all the criteria but its place and influence are undeniable, and if that belongs then so does Peeping Tom and that's why I included it. But Black Christmas is not only the first genuine slasher movie, it's also the most effective and downright scary. I don't mean "oh that's cool" or "oh that's kind of creepy", I mean a lot of that movie is ****ing scary. If it were up to me Black Christmas would make it at least to the quarterfinals, and possibly win the whole thing. I can't see myself voting against it. But obviously it ain't up to me, so I'll just STFU and count the votes like a good little schmendrick, but I wanted to say all this crap before the voting starts. Club Dread is good and all, I thought it was pretty unjustly panned, but it isn't anywhere near the same area code as the same league as Black Christmas.

[Justin]

Have you not seen Black Christmas? If not, I advise you to do so immediately. That you've seen Peeping Tom implies you've seen more than most. I vote Peeping Tom and Black Christmas.

Nope, I've been told the same thing from many people. Peeping Tom was great, however. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

[Jordan KO]

I only saw My Bloody Valentine 3D, its pure fail. the whole scenario of "one time i got so scared,i became the killer" was so stupid i laughed. And as for the title best 3d movie, bull nothing flew at me, Sp Kids 3d is easily better.
Now as for Black Christmas i saw the remake and it was entertaining

[krushgroove19]

black christmas

i've never heard of peeping tom, but now i think i'm gonna check it out.

[Justin]

You absolutely should.

[krushgroove19]

it has been added to the netflix queue. and lucky me, it looks like an instant watch movie.

[jbailey84]

Peeping Tom

Black Christmas

[Dhamon22]

Peeping Tom

Club Dread

[ShnizMuffin]

Peeping Tom

Black Christmas

[EnderDeschain]

I only saw My Bloody Valentine 3D, its pure fail. the whole scenario of "one time i got so scared,i became the killer" was so stupid i laughed. And as for the title best 3d movie, bull nothing flew at me, Sp Kids 3d is easily better.
Now as for Black Christmas i saw the remake and it was entertaining

The ending of MBV rather pissed me off, too. The whole split personality thing or whatever is just overdone and ridiculous now, I'm ****ing tired of it. They obviously wanted to make the ending different from the original and surprise everyone, and that's fine, but you know what would've been really cool and different? If it was ****in Harry Warden that whole time. No childhood trauma, no repressed personalities, just a ****in wack-job rampaging around in a mask pickaxing people. Why doesn't everything gotta have some psychological bull**** behind it? Hell, even Jason and Michael were given sympathetic angles in their relaunchings. Yeah, Jason had the same story in the first series but the presentation was completely different. I hope they don't do some similar **** with Freddy when they relaunch him, like they did in the later chapters. Those chapters were weak largely because they presented Freddy's backstory more, most notably part 6 with Alice Cooper as his pops. The "son of a hundred maniacs" thing from part 3 was cool because it just went into how he was born, it didn't try to show his traumatic upbringing and ****. No one cares, the guy is a ****ING KILLER. That's all we need to know.

Anyway, I still haven't seen the Black Christmas remake. When it came out I was pretty pissed, and judging by what I've heard about it since then it's as big a travesty as I figured it would be. You, JordanKO, are the first person I've seen say anything not negative about it. I might give it a gander soon, maybe when the holidays roll around, but I bet it's gonna suck.

[EnderDeschain]

The results:

19. Peeping Tom (5 votes) defeated My Bloody Valentine (2009) (0 votes)
20. Black Christmas (4 votes) defeated Club Dread (1 vote)

[EnderDeschain]

21.
Friday the 13th pt 8: Jason Takes Manhattan (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097388/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/Friday8.jpg
Year: 1989
This should’ve actually been called Jason Takes a Cruise, as 85% of it is spent on a ship. But he does get to the Big Apple, and it is pretty bad-ass seeing him standing in the middle of Times Square.

VS

Idle Hands ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138510/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/IdleHands.jpg
Year: 1999
A slacker’s hand gets possessed and starts murdering people to hilarious effect. Features Seth Green, the Offspring, and that ***** Jessica Alba.

22.
Sleepaway Camp 2 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096118/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/SleepawayCamp2.jpg
Year: 1988
Angela Baker returns, but this movie takes a completely different path than the first one. It’s full of camp, some great kills, and good Screamlike nudge-nudge wink-wink humor.

VS

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110978/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/TCM-TNG.jpg
Year: 1994
This was an attempted franchise reboot before rebooting became the thing to do. Has Renee Zellweger, as well as Matthew McConaughey in what is perhaps his most awesome performance ever. Seriously.

21. Friday the 13th pt 8: Jason Takes Manhattan vs. Idle Hands
22. Sleepaway Camp 2 vs. Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation

[jbailey84]

even though its the worse of the series, F13th pt. VIII

Sleepaway Camp 2 (didnt a chick die in a out house? or something that involved an out house?)

[krushgroove19]

idle hands

sleepaway camp 2

[Dhamon22]

Idle Hands

Sleepaway Camp 2

[EnderDeschain]

I vote Idle Hands and Sleepaway Camp 2. I remember when Idle Hands came out it was right after the Columbine shootings and ****, and there was a big controversy over the fact that a bunch of schoolkids get killed in it. In retrospect, this movie was a stupid thing to seize on, but as usual when something scares people they wanted a scapegoat. Idle Hands was it. It bombed, and I think that's solely because of the Columbine ****. It's a funny movie, and really pretty good, I think. The Texas Chainsaw remake thing is awesome. I ****ing loved McConaughey in it, the "I'm just gonna kill you. It ain't no biggie." and "VILLMERRRR!" That was all kinds of killer. But Sleepaway 2 is a big favorite of mine, and I can't vote against it here. It's just too good. And yeah, JBailey, there's a scene where Angela shoves a chick into an outhouse toilet. It's quite disgusting. The results:

21. Idle Hands (3 votes) defeated Friday the 13th pt 8: Jason Takes Manhattan (1 vote)
22. Sleepaway Camp 2 (4 votes) defeated Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (0 votes)

[EnderDeschain]

23.
Hellraiser (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093177/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/Hellraiser.jpg
Year: 1987
The box, the chains, the legendary suffering, you know the drill. For a guy who became so iconic, Pinhead’s role is really pretty minimal in this one.

VS

Violent Midnight (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057434/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/ViolentMidnight.jpg
Year: 1963
This was a huge influence on the genre, playing up the whodunit aspect and delivering a surprisingly satisfying ending. It has some beautiful leading ladies, too.

24.
Cherry Falls (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0175526/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/CherryFalls.jpg
Year: 2000
Part of the post-Scream explosion, this has the same kind of story but attempts to be more serious. There’s a really uncomfortable father-daughter moment between Brittany Murphy and the always cool Michael Biehn, as well as Jay Mohr in drag.

VS

New Nightmare (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111686/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/NewNightmare.jpg
Year: 1994
Taking place in the real world, this movie made Freddy dark and scary again. Also features Heather Langenkamp in a sheer white nighty that gets wet at one point. Awesome.

23. Hellraiser vs. Violent Midnight
24. Cherry Falls vs. New Nightmare

[Matrix_Fan]

Hellraiser

Wes Craven's New Nightmare

[Ramplate]

another one where I have only seen one of each contest

[krushgroove19]

hellraiser

new nightmare

[Dhamon22]

Hellraiser

New Nightmare

[jbailey84]

Hellraiser

Wes Craven's New Nightmare

[EnderDeschain]

I vote Violent Midnight and New Nightmare.

23. Hellraiser (4 votes) defeated Violent Midnight (1 vote)
24. New Nightmare (5 votes) defeated Cherry Falls (0 votes)

[EnderDeschain]

25.
Saw 2 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0432348/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/Saw2.jpg
Year: 2005
Jigsaw is back, but this time he’s medically incapacitated and has some help. One of the few genre sequels to actually equal its predecessor, at least in terms of success and exposure.

VS

Halloween: Resurrection (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0220506/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/HalloweenSuck.jpg
Year: 2002
Laurie Strode dies in the first ten minutes. Michael Myers goes on to do battle with the crew of an internet reality show, including Tyra Banks and Busta Rhymes. I’m not kidding.

26.
House Of Wax (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397065/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/HouseOfWax.jpg
Year: 2005
The stunning Elisha Cuthbert stars in this underrated movie about a dude who turns his victims into wax sculptures. Paris Hilton dies, as well, a fact which was wisely used in the ad campaign.

VS

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420294/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/TCMBeginning.jpg
Year: 2006
A prequel to the Platinum Dunes reboot, this goes a bit further into how Leatherface became Leatherface. Has a lot of R. Lee Ermey, which is always cool.

25. Saw 2 vs. Halloween: Resurrection
26. House Of Wax vs. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

[BlackCyborg]

I wish I had checked out this thread sooner, but better late than never.

25. Saw 2
26. Hadn't seen either so I'll refrain from voting on this one.

[jbailey84]

Saw II (not all that bad)

House Of Wax (way better than TCM:TB, what a joke)

[HaDoKen]

saw ii

texas

[ShnizMuffin]

Saw II

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

[EnderDeschain]

Saw II (not all that bad)
House Of Wax (way better than TCM:TB, what a joke)

I concur. The ending to Saw 2 was just as good as the first, I thought, and I was surprised how satisfying it turned out considering that we knew something was coming. We just didn't know what. The Beginning rather sucked, and House Of Wax was pretty fun. It was unjustly overlooked. But if I vote for it it'll make another tie, so I'm just gonna vote for Saw 2 and that's it, making the results:

25. Saw 2 (5 votes) defeated Halloween: Resurrection (0 votes)
26. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2 votes) defeated House Of Wax (1 vote)

[EnderDeschain]

27.
Hellraiser 3 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104409/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/Hellraiser3.jpg
Year: 1992
Pinhead and his evil Rubik’s cube ascend to Earth, where he creates some decidedly new and different Cenobites. Features the similarly titled kick-ass Motorhead song on its soundtrack.

VS

Alice Sweet Alice (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076150/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/AliceSweetAlice.jpg
Year: 1976
This has 9-year-old Brooke Shields in her first role. The killer may or may not be a 12-year-old girl, and that’s just one of the many unconventional things about this flick.

28.
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097981/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/Nightmare5.jpg
Year: 1989
No longer content with terrorizing teen-agers and preadolescents, Freddy decides to go after a fetus. Do fetus’s dream? What’s the plural for fetus, is it fetus’s? Or is it feti?

VS

Motel Hell (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081184/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/MotelHell.jpg
Year: 1980
Mix a little bit of Blood Feast, a little bit of Psycho, and more than a little Texas Chainsaw, and what do you get? A whole lot of suck.

27. Hellraiser 3 vs. Alice Sweet Alice
28. A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child vs. Motel Hell

[jbailey84]

Hellraiser 3

Nightmare On Elm Street 5

the thing with TCM: The Beginning, they could have had it involve that chick from the remake that had the gun in her vajayjay, thats what i was hoping. it would have been cool to end the movie when she gets picked up from Jessica Biel and the gang as in TCM.

and I agree that the House Of Wax remake is underrated.

is The Strangers in this? just curious.

[BlackCyborg]

is The Strangers in this? just curious.

Here's hoping, that movie was pretty decent at building suspense and a somewhat original story.

27. Hellraiser 3
28. Nightmare on Elm Street 5

This tournament gives me something to look forward to every other day, not because it's all that important when there's very few people voting, but because it's interesting to see the match ups and which movies you have chosen. I never saw Sleepaway Camp 2 or 3, but after seeing what you said about the first and the second I figured I'd give a couple of them a try. I enjoyed them, and it has joined my list of favorites. heh

[EnderDeschain]

Hey cool, BlackCyborg, thanks. I figured participation would be pretty bare at this point, as I know there's probably a lot of stuff most haven't seen. But I was hoping there'd be at least a few people interested, who could carry it along until the more accessible later rounds, and that's what's happened. Groovy. Hopefully when it gets closer to Halloween it'll pick up.

JB, The Beginning ramping up to that one chick with the gun in her vajayjay (lulz) would've been great. I hadn't thought of it. Yeah, The Strangers is in. When I decided to make it 128 instead of just 64 I threw in about everything I could think of. Including Leprechaun and Dr Giggles, I'm sure everyone's waiting for those. Ha.

For this one I vote Alice Sweet Alice and Nightmare 5. Alice had a beginning that pulls you in in a way that most movies like it don't, and adds a real emotional weight to it. That's ****in unusual for this genre. My biggest complaint is that the ending didn't really deliver like it should have, considering its approach. It's the only slasher flick I can think of where I really, REALLY wanted to see the killer suffer and beg for mercy and get what was coming to them. But then again how it ended sorta worked in it's own way, just in an ungratifying and disheartening kind of way. As for Nightmare 5, that's mainly just 'cuz Motel Hell sucked. T-totally sucked. A lot.

[jbailey84]

i dont mind Leprechaun, but did you add Leprechaun In Da Hood?

[Cartagia]

i dont mind Leprechaun, but did you add Leprechaun In Da Hood?
Or the vastly superior Leprechaun 4: In Space

[jbailey84]

i thought there was one In Space, i couldnt remember.

im thinking thats what Saw VII will be about, after hearing that Saw VI was the final Saw and then reading there is a VII on the way

[Cartagia]

i thought there was one In Space, i couldnt remember.

im thinking thats what Saw VII will be about, after hearing that Saw VI was the final Saw and then reading there is a VII on the way

Really? I thought that 4-7 or 5-7 were all contractually obligated. But, maybe it was up to 6.

But anyways... as for Leprechaun in Space: God awful mess of a movie. Like Sci-Fi Channel original bad. And Jason X is Citizen Kane next to it bad.

[Ramplate]

Didn't see one of the first two (that was Shield's second film - don't know if she had a speaking role though)

Nightmare 5

[Jordan KO]

darn i missed the Saw 2 vs. Halloween post

[EnderDeschain]

You guys forgot about Leprechaun: Back 2 Tha Hood, the highly anticipated sequel to the fourth or fifth sequel. Visionary stuff. And I see that you are correct, Ramplate, about it being Brooke Shields' second role. I don't know why, but I would've swore up and down it was her first. I thought I heard that somewhere. The results:

27. Hellraiser 3 (2 votes) defeated Alice Sweet Alice (1 vote)
28. A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (4 votes) defeated Motel Hell (0 votes)

[EnderDeschain]

29.
House of 1000 Corpses (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251736/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/HouseOf1000.jpg
Year: 2003
Rob Zombie’s directorial debut. This was the first in the new wave of “torture porn” flicks that Hollywood loved there for a while.

VS

Popcorn (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102690/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/Popcorn.jpg
Year: 1991
A killer terrorizes some folks at an all night horror-thon. Has an inexplicably unresolved cameo by Mr. Hand from Fast Times At Ridgemont High.

30.
Saw 3 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489270/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/Saw3.jpg
Year: 2006
Yep, it’s Jigsaw again, as well as his accomplice Amanda. This has an ending that would have been the perfect way to cap a trilogy but nooooo, they just couldn’t leave it alone. Dummies.

VS

Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0437857/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/BehindTheMask.jpg
Year: 2006
A news crew follows around a burgeoning serial killer as he prepares for his big debut. The result is one of the best slasher films in decades. In my opinion, of course.

29. House of 1000 Corpses vs. Popcorn
30. Saw 3 vs. Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon

[jbailey84]

House of 1,000 Corpes (I really like this film. i know many dont, but i think its a great debut for Rob. Capt. Spaulding and Otis steal every scene they are in. i loved the whole underground scene and when Otis has that gun point blank at that cop, can you imagine waiting that long to die with a gun to your head? f'd up. this is one of my favorite horror movies.)

Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (havent seen it since it came out but way better than most of "horror" coming out.)

[HaDoKen]

saw 3

[Ramplate]

Well, I'll have to check out that last one for sure.

Once again, I've seen the mainstream ones and not the other two sO I can't vote (Although I must say 1000 Corpses was a mess)

[BlackCyborg]

House of 1000 corpses.

Saw 3(Just because I am a big fan of the original 3, I gotta give it my support.)

[ShnizMuffin]

House of 1000 Corpses

Saw 3

[EnderDeschain]

I vote 29. House of 1000 Corpses. I'm with JBailey on this one, I too am one of the apparently few who liked it. I also agree with Ramplate in that it was a mess, there were so many holes and **** that didn't make sense and just out-of-nowhere flashes of ridiculousness, but that kinda worked. I thought. That scene where Otis shoots that cop struck me as cool too, you're just waiting and waiting and waiting and right when you think ****, did the film break? BANG. Popcorn was pretty fun for what it was, and had some decent little sequences like the big mosquito one and the finale, but House was just a bit more original. Well not original, 'cuz the story's actually pretty standard, but the characters and presentation were fairly unique.

30. Behind The Mask. I can't believe it's about to lose to Saw 3. Don't get me wrong, I actually liked Saw 3. At the time it came out, yeah, people were already growing cold to the series (which I think owes a lot to the frequency of the flicks, once a year is a bit overwhelming), but I thought it did alright. Not as good as the first two, but there were some decent moments along the way and the ending working out the way it did was cool. I liked that he was testing Amanda the whole time and what happened with the husband and wife. But Behind The Mask is easily one of my personal top five out of this tourney. I thought it was downright ****ing brilliant a lot of the time, and at the very least was entertaining all throughout.

I saw Orphan this week and recommend it unreservedly to everyone here. I hope it makes a ton of money so they can do a sequel, because the potential for a new series is through the ****in roof. It'd be awesome if it was in a tourney like this someday. Anyway, the results:

29. House of 1000 Corpses (4 votes) defeated Popcorn (0 votes)
30. Saw 3 (3 votes) defeated Behind The Mask: The Rises of Leslie Vernon (2 votes)

[EnderDeschain]

31.
Final Destination (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0195714/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/FinalDestination.jpg
Year: 2000
A bunch of teen-agers who narrowly avoid a fatal plane crash are stalked by…no one at all. The Candyman makes a cameo that is sufficiently creepy as ****.

VS

The Burning (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082118/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/TheBurning.jpg
Year: 1981
A burned-up-ass dude creeps around in a big coat and hat to kill some teen-agers at a summer camp. This was the debut of the Weinsteins, who co-wrote and produced it, respectively.

32.
Strangeland (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124102/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/Strangeland.jpg
Year: 1998
Written by and starring Dee Snider (yes, that Dee Snider), this can be best described as the preferred slasher film of the emo set.

VS

The Stepfather (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094035/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/TheStepfather.jpg
Year: 1987
A serial killer shacks up with a widow and her daughter in search of the perfect Cleaver family. The daughter gets suspicious. Nuttiness ensues.

31. Final Destination vs. The Burning
32. Strangeland vs. The Stepfather

[BlackCyborg]

31. Final Destination

[Ramplate]

Only saw the begining of Final Destination - thought the begining dragged too much so I never finished watching

[jbailey84]

Final Destination

Strangeland (i think this is underrated and overlooked, and yes it is strange but i really liked it. i need to get this on dvd.)

hey Ender, have you watched Ho1C with the commentary from Rob? makes the movie have a bit more sense added to it, especially that random scene of the black guy with the gun talking about some gorilla.

[Cartagia]

Final Destination

And I never saw The Stepfather.

[EnderDeschain]

Only saw the begining of Final Destination - thought the begining dragged too much so I never finished watching

You should finish it. It was really pretty good, especially considering that the slasher in this one was THIN AIR. I dug it quite a bit.

Final Destination
Strangeland (i think this is underrated and overlooked, and yes it is strange but i really liked it. i need to get this on dvd.)
hey Ender, have you watched Ho1C with the commentary from Rob? makes the movie have a bit more sense added to it, especially that random scene of the black guy with the gun talking about some gorilla.

I don't watch commentaries much. I've actually set out to before but I get a minute or two in and say **** this, I wanna watch the movie. Now that I'm thinking about it, I don't think I've ever actually finished one single commentary in my life. As for Strangeland, I thought it sucked. I didn't like the whole hippie message behind it, it wasn't obvious but it was there. Reforming doesn't happen, it doesn't take a hanging to turn a bad guy to a bad guy. Although that scene was kinda cool. I still didn't like it.

[EnderDeschain]

****. I forgot to say I vote Final Desination and The Stepfather. I don't remember The Burning very well, I remember the sheers and a scene involving a bedroom and an eyeball and lots of blood, but it's been a long ****in time since I saw it. The Stepfather, though, I remember very well and I think it's one of those that almost transcends the genre. That movie was so tense and surprising and just effective that it kicked all kinds of ass. The scene in the basement where the chick first stumbles upon the stepfather and hears him, and realizes what was going on, and there's that one little beat between when she hears and he sees, that was frucking brilliant. There were a couple other moments like that, too, but that one was the one that defined the flick, I thought. Also the opening, when he first comes down the stairs. That was shocking, in a way.

[krushgroove19]

final destination

the stepfather

[HaDoKen]

final destination

[EnderDeschain]

This puts us at halfway through the first round. Out of like eight rounds. Wow. We got a ways to go. The results:

31. Final Destination (6 votes) defeated The Burning (0 votes)
32. The Stepfather (2 votes) defeated Strangeland (1 vote)

[EnderDeschain]

33.
Shocker (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098320/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/Shocker.jpg
Year: 1989
From Wes Craven. This is about a dude who gets the electric chair, and then becomes a body-jumping electro-slasher. I wonder if he shocks himself when he pees.

VS

Friday the 13th pt 5: A New Beginning (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089173/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/Friday5.jpg
Year: 1985
Tommy Jarvis, the kid from Final Chapter who’s a little wacky now, is being stalked by a killer who may or may not be Jason Voorhees. I’ll give you a hint: it’s not. It’s Roy, the ambulance driver. That’s the only hint you’re getting, though.

34.
A Nightmare on Elm Street (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087800/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/NightmareOnElmSt.jpg
Year: 1984
Also from Wes Craven. The first chapter in what would become a very long-legged franchise, this put Robert Englund, Johnny Depp, and No-Doz on the map.

VS

The Final Terror (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082379/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/TheFinalTerror.jpg
Year: 1983
A group of folks go into the woods to do some rafting, some dope-smoking, and some getting murderalized. Features notable names like Daryl Hannah, Mark Metcalf, and the always awesome Joe Pantoliano as the aptly named Eggar.

33. Shocker vs. Friday the 13th pt 5: A New Beginning
34. A Nightmare on Elm Street vs. The Final Terror

[krushgroove19]

shocker

a nightmare on elm street

[jbailey84]

friday the 13th pt V (i like it because the twist of the killer isnt Jason. i was surprised when i saw that as a kid.)

nightmare on elm street

[Matrix_Fan]

Shocker

A Nightmare On Elm Street

[ShnizMuffin]

Shocker

A Nightmare On Elm Street

[BlackCyborg]

Friday the 13th Part V

A Nightmare on Elm st.

[EnderDeschain]

I vote 33. Shocker. That movie was a ****ing joke, and sucked all kinds of suck, but I don't know if it can get much worse than Friday 5. Shocker at least has some comedy in it, a lot of which was intentional but a lot of which wasn't. Still, funny of any sort is better than intolerably boring. Aside from Jason Goes To Hell, part 5 is easily the worst Friday in my opinion.

34. Nightmare. Adur. This is a top seed against bottom seed, a 1 - 16 matchup, and it shows. However comma, I will say that I liked The Final Terror for the most part. It had some decent characters, a couple surprising moments (one that stands out a lot, invovling camoflage), and a good ending. That ending was very original at the time, especially for this kind of movie, and bits of it can be seen in Predator and even Return of the Jedi. It even had a bit of social commentary, concerning Vietnam, that I thought was really cool. Plus watching Joe Pantoliano trying to sound country is hilarious. If this particular 16 seed were up against a lot of other things I'd vote for it, but the original Nightmare is too historically relevant. It actually deeply effected the entire genre, and introduced to the slasher flick a supernatural element that hadn't really been explored as effectively before. It kept enough conventional stuff, though (teen-agers, past coming back, deformed antagonist who stalks one by one, et cetera) that it undoubtedly was a slasher. That movie opened up a lot of doors, and even started a few careers.

[Ramplate]

Shocker
Nightmare

[EnderDeschain]

Alrighty. The results:

33. Shocker (5 votes) defeated Friday the 13th pt 5: A New Beginning (2 votes)
34. A Nightmare on Elm Street (7 votes) defeated The Final Terror (0 votes)

[EnderDeschain]

35.
Halloween (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373883/) (2007)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/Halloween07.jpg
Year: 2007
Rob Zombie remakes what is, to most people, the slasher movie. And it turns out Michael Myers was a crybaby momma’s boy who couldn’t handle having a ****ed up family. Scary.

VS

Jason X (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211443/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/JasonX.jpg
Year: 2001
I’m sure everyone’s always wondered hmm, what if Jason Voorhees got cryogenically frozen, put on a spaceship, and thawed out 400 years later? I know I have.

36.
Madman (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082696/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/Madman.jpg
Year: 1982
A dude kills a bunch of people in the woods. This has the slasher movie version of the Excalibur legend, plus a chick who hides from the killer in a ****ing refrigerator. Wow.

VS

Malevolence (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388230/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/Malevolence.jpg
Year: 2004
A group of bank robbers take their hostages to the wrong house, where there’s a dude lurking about with a bag on his head. Generally speaking, people with bags on their heads are not very fun to be around.

35. Halloween (2007) vs. Jason X
36. Madman vs. Malevolence

[Ramplate]

Halloween (is that the lesser of two evils?)

[jbailey84]

Jason X ( it had one of thee coolest kills ever, and i liked the scene where it looked like he was at Crystal Lake. With Halloween, i remember i got bored with it. i fast forward through the movie to see if it was still worth watching. the 2nd movie looks good, but i'll rewatch H again.)

[Papa]

Jason X

[Cartagia]

33.
Tommy Jarvis, the kid from Final Chapter who’s a little wacky now, is being stalked by a killer who may or may not be Jason Voorhees. I’ll give you a hint: it’s not. It’s Roy, the ambulance driver. That’s the only hint you’re getting, though.

I laughed at this way too hard and for way too long.

I vote Halloween. It may not be great, but Jason X is just garbage.

[krushgroove19]

jason x

madman

[Dhamon22]

Halloween

[BlackCyborg]

Jason X

[EnderDeschain]

Wow, I'm shocked. I would've darn near laid money on Halloween to beat Jason X. Not because Halloween is good or anything (it isn't), but because most people seem to dislike Jason X quite a bit. I've never understood why. I ****in love that movie. It's main drawback, to me, is how thoroughly ridiculous uber-Jason looks, after he gets rebuilt or whatever. It really wouldn't have been that hard to come up with something cooler, some half-man half-metal conglomeration, almost Terminator-like. Anything would've been better than the dorky **** they came up with. But I especially liked Hodder in this one, during the first 3/4 or so when he's still regular Jason. Yeah, Hodder always gets Jason right, but in this one especially he just seemed to amp it up and it worked even better. Or maybe it was the uniqueness of the setting he was in, maybe that helped out his presence.

Anyway, yeah, I vote Jason X and Madman. I didn't really like Malevolence much, I thought it was boring and mostly unremarkable. Madman is just pure crap, but of a different kind. It's fun to watch if you're in a very particular mood and can laugh at **** like the chick in the frige or the hood-slamming kill or the Excalibur bit (which was actually kinda cool). However, if you're not in said particular mood, it is ****ing torture to sit through.

[EnderDeschain]

Sigh. I hate it when I post two or three times in a row. It's depressing. I'm about to go see The Collector, which I've heard absolutely NO ONE talk about so I ain't expecting much. Anyway, the results:

35. Jason X (5 votes) defeated Halloween (2007) (3 votes)
36. Madman (2 votes) defeated Malevolence (0 votes)

[EnderDeschain]

37.
Scream 2 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120082/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/Scream2.jpg
Year: 1997
If I remember correctly, Scream was the first horror series to really utilize cell phones. The opening to this one uses caller ID, which wasn’t quite as commonplace then as it is now.

VS

Cut (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0189456/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/Cut.jpg
Year: 2000
A bunch of people on the crew of a slasher movie start getting slashed. This features Molly Ringwald, Kylie Minogue in a cameo, and a bunch of weird-ass accents. It’s Australian or French or something.

38.
Night School (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082812/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/NightSchool.jpg
Year: 1981
A nut-job in a motorcycle helmet cuts off a bunch of chick’s heads, then makes it fun by finding strange places to hide them. Like Easter. Everyone needs a hobby, I guess.

VS

He Knows You’re Alone (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080850/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/HeKnowsYoureAlone.jpg
Year: 1980
About a dude who kills chicks when they’re about to get married. Notable for having the big-screen debut of Tom Hanks, and not much else.

37. Scream 2 vs. Cut
38. Night School vs. He Knows You’re Alone

[ShnizMuffin]

Scream 2

[Dhamon22]

Scream 2

[Cartagia]

Scream 2

[krushgroove19]

scream 2

[jbailey84]

Scream 2

hey, let me know how The Collector is. been hearing its one of the best, been hearing its so so.

[BlackCyborg]

Scream 2

[EnderDeschain]

This is awesome. I get to decide the second match-up all by myself. Cool. I vote Scream 2 and Night School. So the results:

37. Scream 2 (7 votes) defeated Cut (0 votes)
38. Night School (1 vote) defeated He Knows You're Alone (0 votes)

[EnderDeschain]

39.
Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101917/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/FreddysDead.jpg
Year: 1991
Lulz at that poster. “The best for last.” Ha. In this one Freddy fights some chick who might be his daughter or something. Parts of it are in 3D, which is always cool.

VS

Sweeney Todd (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408236/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/SweeneyTodd.jpg
Year: 2007
The main difference between this one and most others is that the slasher is actually the protagonist. And oh yeah, the singing.

40.
The Initiation (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087472/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/TheInitiation.jpg
Year: 1984
Seven inmates escape from an asylum, and one of them goes after an also wacky chick with retrograde amnesia. One of the few films to be set in Texas that doesn’t have the word “chainsaw” in the title.

VS

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093629/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/Nightmare3.jpg
Year: 1987
Freddy terrorizes a bunch of poor schmucks in an insane asylum. Also the return of Nancy, who had been absent from part two, with some cool gray streaks in her hair. Hot. And oh yeah, Patricia Arquette. Also hot.

39. Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare vs. Sweeney Todd
40. The Initiation vs. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

[jbailey84]

Sweeny Todd

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (isnt this the one where that chick is working out and she turns into a roach? or is that part 2? or part 3? AND is this the one where the is a scene of two people getting into a truck and that scene is played over and over until the chick realizes whats happening? if the answer is yes, then this one is my favorite.

[BlackCyborg]

I believe the roach kill is from Part: 2, but I could be mistaken.

Sweeney Todd
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

[krushgroove19]

sweeney todd

NOES 3

[Dhamon22]

Sweeney Todd

Nightmare 3

[EnderDeschain]

The roach thing is from part 4. That scene with the truck was either 4 or 5, not sure which. I think it was 4 as well.

I vote Sweeney Todd and Nightmare 3. Sweeney Todd was one of my favorite movies of 2007, and quite possibly the favorite. Not only that, Freddy's Dead was a gigantic chunk of ass. As for the other, Initiation was okay but nothing special aside from the retarded-ass ending. Dream Warriors, though, was the first time the series really started utilizing the potential of working within dream settings, giving the victims powers and ****. That got kinda ridiculous and out of control in 4, 5, and the absolutely horrible part 6, but was used pretty good here.

[Ramplate]

Sweeney Todd

[EnderDeschain]

39. Sweeney Todd (6 votes) defeated Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (0 votes)
40. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (5 votes) defeated The Initiation (0 votes)

[EnderDeschain]

41.
Child’s Play 3 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103956/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/ChildsPlay3.jpg
Year: 1991
Chucky finds a new body to inhabit, but he has to get through Andy’s annoying ass again. And now Andy’s all grown up (sort of) and in military school.

VS

See No Evil (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0437179/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/SeeNoEvil.jpg
Year: 2006
From WWE Films, it’s the slasher flick that will lay the SMACK down on your candy ass! Or something. Kane (who is apparently a wrassler) plays a big mute dumbass who kills people.

42.
The Strangers (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482606/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/TheStrangers.jpg
Year: 2008
A married couple is besieged in their home by psychotics in masks. Liv Tyler mopes around a lot but really, can she help it with that horsey face?

VS

Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107254/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/JasonGoesToHell.jpg
Year: 1993
Jason is searching for his long lost sister (so he can kill her, of course), and jumps from body to body in doing so, while evading a bounty hunter with a magic knife. That description makes me want to weep.

41. Child’s Play 3 vs. See No Evil
42. The Strangers vs. Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday

[BlackCyborg]

The Strangers

[krushgroove19]

child's play 3

the strangers

[jbailey84]

Childs Play 3

The Strangers (this had one of the best teasers and i really liked this movie as well. i thought the perfect ending would have been when the 3 killers just met those mormon kids, and they drive off *cue credits*)

[Jordan KO]

See No Evil

the Strangers

[EnderDeschain]

I vote Child's Play 3 and The Strangers. Part 3 might be my favorite of the Child's Play series, I felt like it was really hitting the right groove with that chapter. I loved the switching-bullets bit and the outstanding "you gotta be ****ing kidding me!" line that always cracks me up. Not only that, See No Evil kinda sucked. There were some cool things about it like how Kane just chunked his victims around like rag-dolls, and the cell phone bit which had its heart in the right place but came off crappy. Mostly it sucked, though. The Strangers was pretty solid, and JGTH is one of those movies that, if I were in the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind universe, I would have it erased from my brain.

[HaDoKen]

childs play

jason goes to hell

[Dhamon22]

Child's Play 3

The Strangers

[EnderDeschain]

Alright. The results:

41. Child's Play 3 (5 votes) defeated See No Evil (1 vote)
42. The Strangers (6 votes) defeated Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday (1 vote)

[EnderDeschain]

43.
Candyman (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103919/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/Candyman.jpg
Year: 1992
A big dude with a big hook and supernatural powers of some sort makes Virginia Madsen hate life. This movie’s pretty SWEET get it hahaha god I suck.

VS

The Town That Dreaded Sundown (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075342/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/TownThatDreadedSundown.jpg
Year: 1976
Another guy with a bag over his head. Maybe we should just stop making bags. This movie’s a rarity for the genre in that it’s actually a true story.

44.
The Toolbox Murders (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078405/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/ToolboxMurders.jpg
Year: 1978
A dude kills a bunch of chicks with random items from his toolbox, including a screwdriver, a power drill, and a nail-gun. Some surprising stuff happens along the way.

VS

Final Destination 3 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0414982/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/FinalDestination3.jpg
Year: 2006
No one at all returns to kill a bunch of people who narrowly avoided a fatal roller coaster ride. Said roller coaster ride alone is worth watching.

43. Candyman vs. The Town That Dreaded Sundown
44. The Toolbox Murders vs. Final Destination 3

[jbailey84]

Candyman

Toolbox Murders

[DaRkKnIgHtDeTeCtIvE]

Candyman
and a personal favorite of mine...
Toolbox Murders

[krushgroove19]

candyman

fd3

i should probably check out this toolbox movie.

[Matrix_Fan]

Candyman

Final Destination 3

[HaDoKen]

Candyman

Final Destination 3

[BlackCyborg]

Candyman

Final Destination 3

[EnderDeschain]

Hnn. Well I'd like to cast what is apparently gonna be the only vote for The Town That Dreaded Sundown. I don't remember Candyman very well, I saw it roughly around the time it first came to cable and video, so it's been probably fifteen years or so. But I wasn't very impressed with it. The scene where she wakes up in the tub with blood all over the place was cool, and it had a couple moments that I remember being decent, but mostly it didn't work for me. The parking garage scene was another good one, when Candyman first shows up. But Town That Dreaded Sundown is just great. It has some ridiculous attempts at humor that come across incredibly Dukes Of Hazzard, but they're few enough, and some of them are actually funny enough, that it's forgivable. It is perhaps the only horror movie to be set in the South where everyone's not all inbred and TCM or Deliverance wacko. The cops are actually the good guys, the bad guy is actually ****ing BAD, and the vibe is almost western-like. The cops even wear their guns slung low on their hips, like cowboys, and the main good guy is a Texas Ranger. And no, that's not a Klan hood the killer is wearing. It kinda looks like it in the poster, but it ain't, and I know that and the fact that it's set in Texarkana might bring up unpleasant racial concerns but that movie goes nowhere near that subject. I've been collecting scenes from some of my favorites for use in the later rounds, for which I'm trying to save most of my enthusiasm, but this one obviously ain't gonna make it any farther so here:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/TownThatDreadedSundown.png

That scene alone is incredibly effective. If you haven't seen it, I can guarantee you, 100% guarantee you, that you won't guess what happens next. It's a little disturbing, the way that whole scene plays out, and the killer cuts a very intimidating figure throughout it and most of the rest of it. He's kind of unorthodox in that he uses a gun a lot, inadvertently leaves some victims alive, and comes across completely human.

As for the other one, I vote Final Destination 3. I didn't like Toolbox all that much, at least not this one. It was pretty good, don't get me wrong, and parts of it feel really uneasy, but mostly it didn't live up to its potential. I prefer the 2003 remake that isn't really a remake at all, which is coming up later in the tourney. Something just felt off about the direction and pacing of this one, particularly things like the "Joey Joey burning bright" scene which just kinda dragged and went on forever. It also had some VERY ****ty music and I really didn't like the masturbation scene that borders on soft-core porn. As for FD3, I just really like that series. This one in particular was just empty gore-soaked fun.

[EnderDeschain]

Gonna post three times in a row again. Gosh darn it. The results:

43. Candyman (6 votes) defeated The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1 vote)
44. Final Destination 3 (5 votes) defeated The Toolbox Murders (2 votes)

[EnderDeschain]

45.
Maniac (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081114/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/Maniac.jpg
Year: 1980
A dude with some serious oedipal issues rampages around killing women. Contains the famous shotgun scene, which is truly eighteen kinds of awesome.

VS

Psycho (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054215/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/Psycho.jpg
Year: 1960
And speaking of oedipal issues. This is the one that started it all, and it’s friggin amazing how much it’s come to occupy our collective consciousness. Seriously, how many other movies can you say one simple everyday word, like “shower”, and conjure up images of?

46.
Seed Of Chucky (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387575/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/SeedOfChucky.jpg
Year: 2004
Chucky and Tiffany have a little hermaphrodite kid who wants to sing and dance. Jennifer Tilly plays herself as well, and whores it up like a whore. What range.

VS

Suspiria (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076786/)
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/EnderDeschain/SlasherTourney/Suspiria.jpg
Year: 1977
Another one where I questioned whether I should include it, since it has a lot of decidedly un-slasher-like elements. But it was on so many “Best Of” and “Top So-and-so” slasher lists that I had to throw it in.

45. Maniac vs. Psycho
46. Seed Of Chucky vs. Suspiria

[jbailey84]

Psycho

what happend to the Chucky series??

[krushgroove19]

psycho

suspiria

[Ramplate]

Psycho


(I would have voted the Town that dreaded sundown too - candy man never thrilled me and I couldn't get past the begining of the Toolbox murders - guess I should struggle through that one though huh? )

[Dhamon22]

Psycho

Seed Of Chucky

[jbailey84]

damn, how long did EnderDeschain get banned for?

[krushgroove19]

i think for good.

[briantomhson]

Very nice post with a ton of informative information. I really appreciate the fact that you approach these topics from a stand point of knowledge and information
instead of the typical “I think” mentality that you see so much on the internet these days.