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She figured they’d look seriously sick holding a chain saw, like the guy in that freaky chain saw movie, Jason, or whatever his name was.
you’re going to chase people through the maze, and you’re going to be fucking scary while you do it,
“Ed Gein inspired Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and even The Silence of the Lambs. He’s iconic.”
She tolerated them, and she really liked some of the quieter, more suspenseful Japanese horror films, like Dark Water, but all in all, horror wasn’t her genre.
Texas Chainsaw–themed party
I thought we were going to watch Black Christmas?
Billy-leaping-in-through-Sidney’s-window-type scare.
Neve Campbell and Jennifer Love Hewitt played Final Girls,
Hush, a 2016 slasher about a deaf writer being stalked by a murderous psychopath in the woods. I’d seen it five times.
“Katie Holmes, Disturbing Behavior,”
prosaic
watching Creep on my laptop.
Scream where Sidney was running
from Ghostface and turned the corner and ran into Billy.
The Invitation? It was intense. Thanks for the rec.”
I once heard about how the movie Saw was inspired by a news report about a man who broke into people’s houses to tickle the feet of sleeping children.
According to Claire, the world was gameable.
“You don’t actually have to be a serial killer to hurt someone with a chain saw, you know,”
“Come on, Alley Cat. You’re not seriously going to let me go through the scary maze on my own, are you? If you don’t come with me, I might die.”
Texas Chainsaw was scream, that Scream’s Sidney Prescott was iconic, and that the best slashers of the ’70s and ’80s were the ones where the Final Girls actually fought back.
The Wilhelm scream is a stock sound effect that’s been used in films, television, and video games since the ’50s. It’s been in Star Wars, Game of Thrones, even a few Pixar movies.
If you want to be a Final Girl, you’ve got to blend in.”
“It’s very Craft-era Fairuza Balk.”
I listened to your last episode, and it made me want to vomit blood, but the new mics are sounding pretty good.
The Final Girls are what the How to Be a Final Girl fans all call themselves.
Urban Legend. (Another ’90s slasher. Gory. Terrible. I’ve seen it twelve times.)
I did the entire assignment before Michael Myers finished killing his family in the first five minutes of Halloween.
It’s not like she’s the Hannibal Lecter to my Clarice Starling.
