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 experiments with the killer's point of view too. Is this a real revival or are we just having a good October?
The slasher revival: real recovery or a dead cat bounce with a machete?
GhoulFridayFanOriginal post#1 ShortTheSequelInvestor#2 ScreamQueenQFan#3 Strip out the franchise names
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.
LakeCampCounselorFan#4 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.
LongOnLakesideInvestor#5 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.
TheLastUsherFan#6 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.
GhoulFridayFan#7 That is the most wholesome thing anyone has ever said about slashers.
VolatilityVampireInvestor#8 Fear gauge spikes on slasher weekends are sharper and shorter than anything in $SUPR. Great to trade, terrible to marry.
GenreDeskGregPress#9 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.
FinalGirlFundFan#10 Survivor energy is up. Final girls who are allowed to be funny ARE the revival. Somebody put that on a ticker.
ShortTheSequelInvestor#11 Fine. Real revival. I am keeping my hedge on franchise fatigue though. Someone has to be the killjoy in the third act.