Here are a list of slashers that i have analysed, focusing at the Ident and Titles
Slasher (2001)
Low budget indie
Budget: $165k
set like a game show and no titles ran through the film even after the main plot had begun.
Urban legend(1998) Jamie Blanks
$14 million Budget
$38 million in the US
non diegetic music over titles, stops at 2:31.
Begins with company names and producers more titles start again
Scary movie (wayanes, 2000)
$19 million budget
$157 million dollar gross in the US
Simple Ident Dimension simple letters.
No titles at the beginning red with black background saying scary movie.
Mad House (william butler, 2004)
opening shot is letters in blood, no immediate credits.
Guy gets hit by a car then titles begin, lionsgate the distributor comes up with an ident.
A madhouse production, last credits to be shown is directed by..
black christmas (1974)
Black christmas appears in serif font.
cry wolf (jeff wadlow, 2005)
panning shot of the Forrest. it has a serif font when cry wolf comes on the screen it's dark.
The o and the R are bits missing this is to show aged. this connotes decaying/death.
Donkey punch (ollie blackburn, 2008)
first thing is optimum releasing ident, then the warp films ident, UK film council and film 4, low budget film so it has several idents due to the amount of funding it needs. black background with a sans serif font. Warp x production.
Dressed to kill (Brian de Palma 1980)
Starts with metro goldwyn mayer ident. black background and white sans serif font. alot of titles.
all the boys love mandy lane ( directed by lane levine, 2006)
No musical audio, with 1 ident. occupant films. music begins to play when the title of the film comes up.
white text with blood, high piano notes to raise tension.
April fools day (fred walton 1996)
first ident is paramount no music quite bland ident. paramount pictures present starts the titles off. 21 seconds in two characters filming each other.
Babysitter wanted (jonas barnes and Michael Manaserri, 2008).
sbig screen first, second ident is the independent film company, non diegetic music, high pitch piano notes.
5 girls (directed by lauren sonoda,2006)
First ident is is alliance Atlantis big and bold quite attractive. second is archetype films. titles dont appear til 5 minutes in. angel in red with a decayed Forrest look. husky voice over of a man reading a prayer.
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