This documentary is not only unbelievable, but very educational to all horror fans.. I learned so much about the history of the slasher film from this documentary. Lets face it folks, this is a must see for real true horror fans, it covers all the horror/slasher films from 1978 with Halloween, though the 80’s, 90’s, and right up to the present day of horror.
The overall premise of the documentary starts out with the rise of the slasher films of the early 1970’s when film like The Hills Have Eyes, Last House on the Left, Texas Chainsaw Massacre to name a few laid the foundation for the slasher film. However will all due respect the slasher film did not become big until the release of Halloween in 1978. The documentary then follows the rise of the slasher film though the early 1980’s with Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street. It then covers all the other slasher films that tried to make it to the top, such as the holiday slasher films like My Bloody Valentine, April Fools Day and the controversial Silent Night, Deadly Night, which the documentary points out as a film that made parents furious over the fact of a killer Santa. It then covers the fall of the slasher film during the mid 1980’s and early 1990’s, then the resurrection with Scream during the mid to late 1990’s and up until now with movies like Saw, The Devil’s Rejects and Hostel.
Overall, this documentary is an a class education in horror. I hope that any horror fans that is lucky enough to get the Starz network will be watching it on Friday the 13th 2006. (Yes! I’m plugging it for your own good.) And if you don’t the film does have a DVD release date for sometime next year. So either way Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film is a must for all true fans of not just the slasher film, but horror in general. Put it on your must see list.
– Horror Bob
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