In honor of Halloween, we rented this movie last night. Again, I do not like horror movies. They do not scare me. Do they gross me out? Yes. Entertain me? No. Brian enjoyed it, though. As far as today’s horror movies go, this one was pretty tame–not a whole lot of blood and gore (the camera cut away for most of those scenes). It’s hard to believe it was banned in some countries when it was released. I have to assume it was one of the first “slasher” movies, so this could be the reason for the ban. Still it was one freaky movie and it sparked a conversation between Brian and I where we discussed all of the things we were afraid of as children. Our lists were very similar. It’s no wonder we’re married–no one else would have us.
One thing I noticed was that Rob Zombie borrowed heavily from the plot of this movie. Had I seen this first, I wouldn’t have been quite as impressed with his two films. I mean, there were some things he outright stole. But, I guess there isn’t much originality in the slasher genre, so that’s probably the reason. All slasher films seem to be a derivative of this one.
Trivia for the day: the movie was inspired by the story of Ed Gein, one of the more famous serial killers.