How long would YOU last in a Slasher movie?

It still counts as a mace if it has a fixed head and not a chain.

The knife on a bat is more like an extra sharp pickaxe, which is a pretty nice little tool. But that one would give you the extra ability of hitting with the handle (or bat in this case). To step that up, the mattock isn't bad. I've scared someone off with one before, at least temporarily. I was working a construction job and some guy was slapping his girlfriend around at the nieghbor's house, so I came out with the mattock and asked if there was a problem. A couple of other workers came up behind me, also with heavy things. It was pretty awesome.

Guns are effective, blades and blunt weapons have a lot more dramatic potential. Which is why I prefer them. It's much more person to person fighting, and the context of a slasher film it brings the killer into the victim's space, which is important.
 
HAH! I kill people with just the chain. Even if I miss with the ball, the chain will be long enough to wrap around the neck. Oh, and the chain is covered with mini-blades dipped in poison.


And if that doesn't get you, I have sharks.....with laser beams.

and the context of a slasher film it brings the killer into the victim's space, which is important.
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Totally agree, Cassius. Using an edged weapon for a kill is close and personal. My favorite scene is the bayonet/knife fight in "Saving Private Ryan". That WAS personal. You saw the intimate relationship between the two combatants, with both actors "truly fighting for their own survival". Kudos to the stunt/fight coordinator on that.
 
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Dammit!

I was hoping to impress you guys with my medieval weapons studies degree... but alas... it came from a community college... and so it's worthless... just like all the other CC degrees.

I can't believe I'm flailing in my attempts to describe a mace with the optional chain configuration.

And USLatin... it's not 3... the correct answer is 42.
 
Funny thing I always read it described as a morning star before flail. But come on, if you're writing a book involving slicey and crushy objects, which sounds better? That's what I thought.

My first reaction on this thread was..."bunch of scary motherf&%ers in this forum..." but I keep a hatchet under the bed myself. Also this thing that I made down at the machine shop, it's like having a roll of quarters in your hand except with a hammer on one side, a point on the other, and nails between your fingers...I guess I don't really have room to call names. I made it after seeing one of those key-chain self-defense spiky things, I just went a little over the top with it.
 
Doc Bernard said:
Using an edged weapon for a kill is close and personal.
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Yeah, Doc, but in a lot of slasher flicks the use of the weapon is so over-the-top - hedge shears through the eyeballs, shish kebab skewers through the auditory canals, plain-ass silly decapitations - that the up-close-and-personal quality of the kill begins to take on whoopie-cushion/dribble-glass practical-joke status...
 
Sad Max said:
Yeah, Doc, but in a lot of slasher flicks the use of the weapon is so over-the-top - hedge shears through the eyeballs, shish kebab skewers through the auditory canals, plain-ass silly decapitations - that the up-close-and-personal quality of the kill begins to take on whoopie-cushion/dribble-glass practical-joke status...
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True, but I think I can break you of that perception. I have a hand to hand scene using knives that makes it so personal and intimate, it will bring tears to the eyes, and make your hair fall out.

Sure, H-wood, has overplayed it in some respects, but with an equal on equal combat, it can be elegant, while still disturbing.

Have I said how much I love my job???????
 
I'd be the one that when the slasher is about to stab or slice me, I then turn around and fill the fiend with a bucket of lead and a grenade from my assault rifle/grenade launcher combo.

If anyone's ever seen The Untouchables, you know what I'm talking about.
 
The key is to not panic (ha!) and run like hell and use your intelligence, then outwit and become the hunter. As long as you are defensive, you're dead.

Me? Slasher? I'd be the background 'extra' at the beginning of the movie and be smart enough never to get in the mix in the first place.
 
Charli said:
The key is to not panic (ha!) and run like hell ...
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I see no application. The script dictates you should panic, stumple into thin air while running, and waste time by constantly looking back, before and while running. The writer thinks it's better if the enemy is slow but also able to catch you. So, if you are not carrying your weak/wounded/heavy friend, you have to be really slow, confused or simply stupid. It helps chase scenes last longer, prolongs suspence and is responsible for the patchwork stupidity of the typical slasher script.

On the other hand, wasn't arm grabbing through the bars a little too easy on the Green Mile (script and novel probably)? Who can blame B-Movie screenwriters.
 
I'd get the heck out of there, and if necessary... I'd be aggressive.

But seriously... cars drive fast... planes fly faster :)
 
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