Word: slashers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BUSINESS: A Builder, Not a Slasher...
...That vehement distaste led him to exclude the Godfather movies from his recent purchase of TV rights to 300 Paramount movies. Odd, then, that he's buying New Line, a company whose success has derived from gratuitous martial-arts violence (the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movies) and gratuitous slasher-film violence (its Nightmare on Elm Street series, the Friday the 13th series...
Karter Reed was not so lucky, Paradoxically, his media image suffered because he was relatively normal. He was "a quiet boy and good student." Pity for poor Karter, for he didn't exemplify the convenient image of a kid failed by the society--up all night watching slasher flicks after being abused by one or more members of his dysfunctional family while the system turned a deaf ear to his horrible problems. There was nothing to blame in Karter's mundane backgroud except for the fact that he was also skate-boarding when they handed out brains and souls...
...Gennaro said the current problem is notsimilar to that of "The Slasher," who cut thepages out of Widener books, leaving only thecovers...
Adolescents, as everyone in the movie business knows, are a market, not an audience. You do anything you can to separate them from their allowances -- pimple-brained comedies, incoherent action films, imbecilic slasher flicks -- but you do nothing to connect them with the realities of the often desperate passage they are attempting to navigate...