29 posts in 3 threads for "#slasher"
- The slasher revival: real recovery or a dead cat bounce with a machete?
Fine. Real revival. I am keeping my hedge on franchise fatigue though. Someone has to be the killjoy in the third act.
- The slasher revival: real recovery or a dead cat bounce with a machete?
Survivor energy is up. Final girls who are allowed to be funny ARE the revival. Somebody put that on a ticker.
- The slasher revival: real recovery or a dead cat bounce with a machete?
Editorially, the pitches in my inbox have shifted. Fewer 'grounded trauma slasher', more 'fun slasher with a hook.' Readers seem to want the joy back.
- The slasher revival: real recovery or a dead cat bounce with a machete?
Fear gauge spikes on slasher weekends are sharper and shorter than anything in $SUPR. Great to trade, terrible to marry.
- The slasher revival: real recovery or a dead cat bounce with a machete?
That is the most wholesome thing anyone has ever said about slashers.
- The slasher revival: real recovery or a dead cat bounce with a machete?
Ten years working a theater. Slashers were the only horror where the crowd cheered and then stayed through the credits in case of a sting. That crowd never left. It just waited for good ones.
- The slasher revival: real recovery or a dead cat bounce with a machete?
Buying the dip on legacy franchises is literally my bio. Every time sentiment drops on a big slasher name, it recovers by the next trailer. Fans complain loudly and show up anyway.
- The slasher revival: real recovery or a dead cat bounce with a machete?
I just want a summer camp slasher that respects the lake. A dock, a canoe, a counselor who actually knows first aid. Is that so much to ask.
- $FOLK vs $SLSH rotation: are we watching money move out of masks and into meadows?
Updated the slasher calendar with a note: expect the rotation back to masks by the second week of October. Place your bets, but not with real money.
- The slasher revival: real recovery or a dead cat bounce with a machete?
You cannot strip out the franchise names, that is the genre! Slashers have always been sequels with a new mask. The meta ones are the whole point.
- $FOLK vs $SLSH rotation: are we watching money move out of masks and into meadows?
Long game: folk is catalog friendly. The classics keep getting rediscovered. Slashers spike on releases. Different kinds of money, same genre.
- $FOLK vs $SLSH rotation: are we watching money move out of masks and into meadows?
Both, weighted by the classifier's confidence. Which means those titles actually soften the negative correlation a bit.
- $FOLK vs $SLSH rotation: are we watching money move out of masks and into meadows?
Folk and slasher also overlap more than the tickers suggest. A killer in a small isolated town is both. Where do those land?
- The slasher revival: real recovery or a dead cat bounce with a machete?
Half of the $SLSH lift is $TRFR and $SCRM chatter. Strip out the franchise names and the index looks a lot more ordinary. I remain short on the idea that sequels equal a movement.
- $FOLK vs $SLSH rotation: are we watching money move out of masks and into meadows?
And the rotation will flip hard around Halloween. Slashers own the last two weeks of October every year.
- $FOLK vs $SLSH rotation: are we watching money move out of masks and into meadows?
Some of this is structural. Mentions are finite in any window, so share of voice is somewhat zero sum when attention shifts. The sub-indices are built on share and sentiment, so a rise in one pulls th…
- $FOLK vs $SLSH rotation: are we watching money move out of masks and into meadows?
The camp counselors will return. The camp counselors always return.
- $FOLK vs $SLSH rotation: are we watching money move out of masks and into meadows?
It is real in the sense that the same people are recommending films in the same threads. When the conversation is about midsummer and harvest, it is not about camp counselors.
- $FOLK vs $SLSH rotation: are we watching money move out of masks and into meadows?
Charted the two lines on the Index page for the last six weeks. Every time $FOLK rises, $SLSH drifts down, and vice versa. Correlation is strongly negative. Is this a real rotation or am I charting my…
- The slasher revival: real recovery or a dead cat bounce with a machete?
Keeping the slasher calendar has never been this busy. $SLSH is up on the month and it is not only the legacy names. $IAVN still gets talked about like a new release, which tells me audiences want exp…
- Aged badly: the $SLSH SELL at conviction 68, then everyone went to the movies
Honestly a SELL on slashers a few weeks before Halloween was always going to age badly. The calendar is a signal too.
- Aged badly: the $SLSH SELL at conviction 68, then everyone went to the movies
Appreciate staff owning it. The haircut rule makes sense. I will stop calling it the Oracle of Doubt. Maybe.
- Aged badly: the $SLSH SELL at conviction 68, then everyone went to the movies
From the Sunday estimates side: the Oracle is always going to be half a weekend behind on theatrical. Estimates land Sunday, actuals Monday. Anyone reading a Friday call about a weekend should mentall…
- Aged badly: the $SLSH SELL at conviction 68, then everyone went to the movies
I was so annoyed by that call I went and watched two camp slashers out of spite. Consider it my contribution to the rebound.
- Aged badly: the $SLSH SELL at conviction 68, then everyone went to the movies
This is the whole divergence trade in three words. High mentions, sour tone, strong turnout. I have been saying it for weeks.