Comments on: Retro Slasher Icons: The Audience

By: glenn

glenn — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:10:25 +0000

I saw most of the early slashers on video with annoying friends, because my parents did not approve. I only caught them on the big screen as the genre was hitting a fallow patch. The best was ,strangely, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in of all places an art-house cinema in the mid 1990s. It was chaos. Grown adults running up and down making chainsaw noises, people shouting dialogue and advice. The funniest bit was watching three fey looking usherettes wrestler a large drunk to the floor and kick the crap out of him before dragging him out of a side door!
And actually, seeing the Friday 13Th reboot with an audience cheering every kill and even the title was more fun than it should have been.

By: Retro Horror Remix

Retro Horror Remix — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:26:25 +0000

I saw “A Nightmare On Elm Street 5″ in the theater, and most of the audience had walked out by the end. When I saw “Halloween 6 and H20″ in the theaters, everyone was yelling and having fun. However, the best was “Leatherface: TCM 3″ because I remember 2 people threw up in the aisles and they had to stop the movie and make a big deal about it because of the smell!

But I agree about watching it with teenagers, I don’t EVER go to the theater now unless it’s a DAMN GOOD MOVIE that I HAVE to see on the big screen. I think the last one was “Lake Dead” from last year’s HORRORFEST (the ONLY one I went and saw).

-RHR

By: Marvelous Mervo

Marvelous Mervo — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:37:34 +0000

Sadly I was born about 15 years too late for viewing the early 80s classics in a theater. The only slasher I saw in a theater was “I know what you did last summer”. From what I recall it didn’t really seem like a hardcore horror crowd. Just the mall goer types who screamed at any loud noise on the screen

By: Saint

Saint — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:53:28 +0000

The audience is the best part of enjoying a good horror film just as long as they are OVER 20 years old.

Watching a movie with tweens is like finger nails on a chalkboard.

By: Rufty

Rufty — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:40:23 +0000

One of the best experiences I had at a Slasher screening was when I was 8 and was taken to the theater to see F13part7 on opening night. It was a low rent theater where I was the minority. There wasn’t a death scene went by that I didn’t hear someone yell “Kill her Jason!!” It was great.