1975

The film
Halloween is
a box office
the hit and
create the
slasher film
genre.

Horror Franchise Time-line

1980

1981

The laugh out

loud horror
comedy The
Evil Dead is
so gory that
the they had
to change the
color of the
gore.

Friday The
13th comes
out and becomes the
leading competitor in the
slasher genre.

1984

Wes Craven puts a

twist on the
slasher genre
with his talkative mask
less dream
master

1986

The scifi-sequel Aliens

comes out
making us
not want to
be in contact
with the third
kind.

Students opinion on do they like

Horror Movies

66% are
Horror Hounds

Amount of
Students that like
horror movies: Red
Amount of
Students that
dislike horror
movies :Black
Amount of
Students that only
watch
Horror movies
at Halloween:
Orange

20% are
12% are
Killer Critics
Happy
Halloween
Viewers

1996

Scream parodies the

slasher genre
creating Meta-Horror.

Camille F. Vitale

Meta Maniacs and Mega

Monsters
Screaming all the way from 1980 to 2015.
Slam!
A young blonde woman wakes in the deep black night to a
slam, she hears some one lurking, scratching, pounding in her
closet. It leaves chills down her spine, as the cold wind blows
opens the door and.
SCREAM!
Whether people like horror movies or not, they cant deny
that watching the annual fright fest is an honored tradition
throughout the October season. So to add to monster junkies
killer collections there are some new chiller films straight out of
the crypt. The two biggest are Final Girls and Goosebumps.
Some say that horror is dead. That horror at its prime came
out of the 80s.
I feel that horror movies from the 80s have more atmosphere
and mood. The ones now are just about gore and jump scares,
senior Nick Byrnes said. With that in mind how do these newer
films compare to the old ones.
The first film coming out October 9 is Final Girls, which
is a tongue and cheek parody of the slasher flick series Friday
The 13th, a massively popular franchise, so a Meta-horror film
poking fun of it makes sense profit-wise.
The series was the lead competitor in the slasher flick craze
of the 80s spanning sequel after sequel. Who could blame them
back in the 80s it wasnt a sin to make a dozen sequels.
The series died in the late 80s due to fan disappointment of
Part 8. It was doomed to its fate after New Line Cinema bought
the rights to the franchise, attaching weird themes to the films
ripping plot holes in the continuity. However Final Girls seems
to be a parody the first eight parts of the series.
The plot of Final Girls is simple. A group of teens go to
a movie theater to watch a reshowing of an old horror classic
Camp Bloodbath. They are horrified to find themselves trapped
in the movie after a theater fire. There only way of survival is to
be saved by the final girl. Only problem, they kill the final girl.
The only problem would be if the film focuses more on poking fun of Friday the 13th than developing its story. The parody
makes many references to the original from the killers theme
(that sounds a lot likes Jasons) to Camp Bloodbath that makes
fun of Camp Crystal Lakes nickname Camp Blood, amongst
others.
In the trailer the characters get sucked into a CGI flashback,
but that technique was rarely used back then. Films of the 80s
were more into practical effects like non-computer animated special effects. Some people prefer practical effects because theyre
actually there.
I dont favor one or the other as long as the effects look good
and fit the movie, senior Megan Kargol said.
Final Girls is part of a long line of Meta-horror films originating from Wes Cravens Scream. The genre gained popularity
in the early 2000 with films like Zombieland, Cabin in the
Woods, and It Follows. Tons of people are under the belief that
Meta-horror is actually better than most horror movies today.
This is possibly because the actual Horror genre relies on overused clichs.
I like the Meta-horror movie genre. I think theyre better
than most horror movies made in this time period, senior Ben
Murphy said.

Another horror movie coming out this October 16 is Goosebumps based on the popular 90s horror book series.
The movie is about a teen that moves to a new town where he
meets with his English teachers daughter. The teen fears that the
girl is in terrible danger because of her fathers erratic behavior.
The teenager and his friend sneak into the house to save the
teachers daughter and accidentally lets all the monsters out of
their manuscripts.
The funny thing about the long awaited Goosebumps movie
is that director Tim Burton originally dropped out of the project
saying he couldnt make it scary enough to give the franchise
the credit it deserves. Now the new movie is ironically doing the
exact opposite, being marketed as a goofy kid-friendly comedy
starring Jake Black.
Its understandable that the movie would be kid friendly
because the age group is going to be for 9-20 to attract new fans
and to please the older ones.
Strangely, even though the Goosebumps books and TV
show was hysterical at times it still had its dark and disturbing
moments. Horror movies attracted a younger age group at that
time. The Goosebumps book series served as a way kids could
get away with reading horror without worrying if their parents
would confiscate it like A Nightmare on Elm Street.
The new Goosebumps movie will satisfy their older fan
base. It makes a lot of references from the most popular books in
the series like the giant praying mantis from Shocker on Shock
Street. There are also references from rare books like the vampire poodle in Give Yourself Goosebumps - Please Don t Feed
The Vampire.
The other horror movies that are coming out this October
are Crimson Peak, Tales of Halloween, Bone Tomahawk,
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension, and The Last
Witch Hunter.
Whether or not watching Horror movies is your preference,
the annual fright fest is an honored tradition in the October
season.