S&A The Voyurism of the Who Done It Slasher - Happy Birthday To Me and The New York Ripper
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME, DIR J L THOMPSON, 1981 & NEW YORK RIPPER DIR LUCIO FULCI 1982 The Slasher genre has it's roots firmly in the Murder Mystery. It's the Italian's who give the murder mystery a more kill and gore focus: Blood and Black Lace , The Bird with the Crystal Plumage and Torso . Incredibly stylish movies with fashion, wealth and a killer often in black gloves. What is important, especially for the movies I am going to be talking about; is the camera taking the POV or the Killer POV. Something the later Slasher genre would take up with gusto, as the 1980s slid into masks and machetes, where the the final girl and body count was more the primary objective. At the Slasher's height, in the early 1980s, you see the melding with Giallo, as the two movies Happy Birthday to Me and The New York Ripper shows. They are both Hodge Podge of Hitchcock, mystery, gore, kills but on completely different spectrum of fil...