i never really liked the TCM series all that much, because i always hoped they would get bloodier and horrible. (because when i think of a chainshaw, i think of lims flying)
the original was pretty cool, and the remake was pretty decent in my eyes, the only thing i give more credit for the remake is the scene with the guy playing the piano with his toes... that was def a awesome shot.
as for the wheelchair guy, im glad he wasnt in this one, i hated that ****er!
Saw them both to get an opinion.
Like I said plenty of times before, the original "TCM" is overrated, and it was cool for it's time. Kids get lost in Backwoods, USA and run into a chainsaw wielding crossdresser? It was nothing but an attempt at "shocking" people. Little to no gore, no real plot, nothing. Something to send "Flower Power" backing for good, and usher in the 70's.
It may have been "innovative", but it lost alot of it's credibility after spawning numerous sequels that fell flat on their ass. So, it was cool for it's time, jumpy cinematography and all, and it will remain a cult classic. Yes, it set the bar for Redneck horror like "House of 1,000 Corpses" or the equally pathetic "Wrong Turn".
Oooh.........Wrong Turn and House of 1000 Corpses were both terrible..........
Set the bar for those terrible movies? How about the much loved Halloween?.....or the A Nightmare on Elm Street?......or Friday the 13th?.....or any other slasher movie you can possibly think of. It didn't set the bar for just horrible movies like Wrong Turn and House of 1000 Corpses...........it set the bar for all slasher movies. Take a group of kids.....kill them off until one female remains.......throw her in danger from a weapon wielding madman.......to the tune of billions upon billions of dollars........all due to one little movie that started it all back in 1974.
That is your opinion......I can respect that.
I actually like the absence of gore. Gore lowers the respect I can give to a movie immensly. Gore is the cheap way out........it is a substitute for plot. It is eye candy designed to hypnotize the audience into forgetting that the film they are watching has a weak plot. If you don't have a good plot.........you don't have a good movie, no matter how much eye candy they try to dazzle you with.
That's the beauty of TCM.........it's a slasher movie.......and a psychological thriller. No other movie has been able to successfully combine both worlds since............
no real plot? you are just grasping at straws.........
I believe any movie in which a weapon weilding mad man relentlessly stalks people and kills them is considered to be a slasher movie. Freddy had a glove........Jason had a machete.......Mike Myers had a butcher knife.........Leatherface had a mallot/chainsaw. Your definitions of what makes a movie fall into the slasher genre is just silly. No gore? Who cares? It was a great movie without gore.........it didn't need to resort to such cheap tactics. It had a strong enough plot to stand on it's own two feet without adding in gore to make kids say, "oh..cool....look at that blood"..........
It's about a man who films his female victims as they are being killed by his own hands, helplessly. He was abused and tested as a kid by his demented father, which led him to be extremely disturbed. However, he still has a sane side which he presents most of the time. It's like if someone meshed "8mm" and "Hannibal".
It is said to have been banned in the U.S. for quite some time, because it was the 60's, and apparently it was too extreme.
this peeping tom movie sounds like a hot pick...
as for gore and slashers, the thing that i get from all this is that gore pretty much set the standards for slashers. i am a huge fan of gore, but thats just me...and i do agree that slashers do not need gore to be a good movie. but it never really hurts! finding a strong slasher story is not the easiest of things, i mean the whole idea of somone walking round killing people at random is a cheesy story.
TCM wasnt really a slasher per say. i think it only got that title after the second and third one came out... then it became a series.
as for TCM its self.the plot was bad. i agree that the shots were amazing and the concept was pretty cool. but if you watch it today it doesnt make that big of an impact, but then again this movie was made in the 70's which at that time it was amazing discovery. i respect what the movie did, and i find it very inspiring. but its not a slasher. just a good story made into a half decent movie.