00:00I myself. It was great. I can't say that, can I? I defecated. I can say that. Howdy in style.
00:06I'm Mason Gooding. And today I will be sharing a fairly definitive ranking of my favorite
00:13slashers. Starting with number 10 would be The Hills Have Eyes. I was, I think, 10 years old
00:19when I fell asleep on the couch and woke up to that playing in the middle of the night and
00:23I
00:24had nightmares for about three weeks afterwards. But it got me like obsessed with it. It's a good
00:29feeling. The scene I vividly remember was she like was in a dungeon and then someone came
00:36in and hit her over the head with something. And I feel like he looked like if Jason Momoa
00:44like also fell asleep in a pool of mud. And I turned off the TV and I sprinted up the
00:50stairs
00:51so fast that I damn near rolled my ankle. Yeah, that was horrifying. Hard Eyes is number nine,
00:57but it's also my number one because I really had the best time filming it and I love watching
01:02it. What were my favorite moments from set? The scene where Olivia Holt's character Allie
01:08and I meet for the first time was like one of the first days of shooting and we actually
01:12like bonked heads on set. It was like a very cute and fun, memorable day that like set the
01:18tone for what was really like a lovely shoot. Oh, and then the chapel bit. We're in the wedding
01:25area and there's all the candles and things. I was cleaning soot out of my nose for like
01:29two weeks, but it was fun. It was really beautiful. Number eight is obviously Black Christmas. Black
01:37Christmas is just a staple of the genre, but I love the original so much. What I love about
01:41slasher films is it feels antithetical to root for the protagonist. So I always root for
01:47the antagonists in the sense that I want to watch the thing I came here for, which is killing.
01:53And that's a really weird push and pull from like an emotional standpoint is you're both
01:58hoping that the final girl makes it out, but also you really want to watch, I guess, her
02:03friends and cohorts get eviscerated. It's a litmus test for humanity right there. Ready
02:09or Not is number seven for posterity's sake. Samara is truly our final girl. Blew up an entire
02:16family of aristocratic holes. It's violent, but it was awesome. Can you help me for number
02:25six, please? Wherever you are, it's somewhere walking straight for you. For number six, it
02:33is It Follows. It Follows is maybe like the most challenging slasher film I had seen in a really
02:41long time, both because as a kid I saw it as like 15, 14, 15, maybe younger even. I thought
02:48the idea of the thing I was trying to be afraid of being invisible to be really like frustrating
02:56in a way that like immersed me into the like perspective of the characters. I just thought
03:01it was a really smart movie that also got to have its cake and eat it too by being really
03:06rad to watch. The scene where the dude comes over, the mom is there and he like bends down
03:13under the doorway. I myself. It was great. I can't say that, can I? I defecated. I can
03:20say that. That's biologically correct. For number five, we've got long legs. Sorry. I can do
03:29it. For number five, we have long legs. Long legs is fascinating to me that a movie through
03:36subjection of denial that you could be inundated with the idea that the killer is the main perpetrator
03:43of the entire film and then have like literal subliminal messaging of demonic figures that
03:49like pervade the entire movie. It's awesome. Long legs was one of those movies where it was
03:56challenging because it required multiple viewings for me to grasp what I think it was doing in the
04:02first place. And I think stuff like that is fun, especially in horror. Number four is Texas Chainsaw
04:09Massacre. I love a rotten movie, a film that is just miserable all the way down. And Texas Chainsaw
04:17Massacre is that in the most amazing way. I played the heck out of the video game. It's like an
04:23asymmetrical horror game where you go online and someone plays Leatherface or one of the family members
04:28and other people play these hot teens that could get, you know, attacked and murdered. I played the
04:35video game a couple years ago and I was like, wow, this is so aesthetically pleasing. And then I went
04:42back and watched the original. I was like, oh, it's because they're copying the very aesthetically pleasing,
04:47grainy and grungy aesthetic. Number three is Bodies, Bodies, Bodies. Bodies, Bodies, Bodies had maybe
04:54the most memorable theater experience that I can recall so vividly was like being in the theater
04:59and people engaging with how funny it was at the same time they were like nervous because it's never
05:05like frightening as much as it's like stress inducing. And then the reveal by the end of the movie
05:11is so perfectly foreshadowed that the execution, they just nailed that timing. Also, I think Rachel
05:19Sennett, in any context, has like access to my funny bone in the way that I don't know if I
05:25could
05:26like attribute that to any other like slasher. Like that was screams very funny. I like to think
05:32Hard Eyes is funny, but Rachel Sennett. X is number two because the scene where Pearl, I guess, stabs the
05:41guy in the face like so many times. I think it was the first time as an adult I was
05:48watching a movie
05:49and got like physically uncomfortable with like what I was seeing. It felt like it had circumlocated
05:55all the way back into actually being like real life and something about the like movements. It just felt
06:01like really, really violent, really disturbed me. Anyway, number two is X. And number one,
06:09Elmo in Grouchland. No, it's... Who is this? You tell me your name, I'll tell you mine. Why do you
06:15want
06:15to know my name? Because I want to know who I'm looking at.
06:21Number one is Scream 1996 because that movie basically molded me into the horror fan that I am
06:28today. I really wanted a violent video game and my mom made me go through a gauntlet of horror movies
06:35that I had to watch in order to like prove that I couldn't handle it. And the very first and
06:40most
06:40memorable experience was watching Scream 1996. I had that monologue memorized the end of the movie
06:48after the big reveal. I don't know why I'm like trying not to spoil it for a bit, but you
06:51should
06:52watch it if you haven't watched. I don't know why Matthew Lillard is on my brain, but it's just all
06:56of
06:56his performances. I feel like he doesn't get enough credit for the range of expression that he
07:01can showcase from all ranges of genres, regardless of the height or the, you know, subtlety of it.
07:09He always finds a way to make it believable and like exciting to watch and you have him at the
07:15end of Scream him and his boyfriend and they are murdering people and it's great. Thank you in
07:21style. This has been me ranking my favorite slasher movies in descending order. Make sure to check out
07:28my new movies. I sound like a merchant. Check out my new movies. I've got lots of movies that you
07:34got
07:34to check out. Here, I've got one right here. You want to tip? Anyway, thanks for watching. I appreciate
07:39you and I hope you have a good day. I see the list. Do you have a list there? Is
07:43that what that is?
07:45Oh my God. I ranked them. That's so funny. Oh, I actually think.
07:50Yeah, I'm going to definitely ask for refreshers, but that is the correct order. So that that's very helpful.
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