Day 27: I Know metformin 500 mg for weight loss What You Did Last Summer (1997)

“Yeah, Jodie Foster tried this and a skin-ripping serial killer answered the door!“

I remember the three ’90s slasher franchises that launched in the back half of the decade: Urban Legend, Scream, and I Know What You Did Last Summer. Summer and Urban Legend followed the success of Scream in an attempt by Hollywood to resurrect the slasher genre. Unfortunately, outside of the success that each of the three new series found, the slasher genre did not resuscitate. And going into the next decade, audiences would be slain by a flurry of remakes (of foreign and domestic films), instead of brand-new stories about high schoolers getting torn apart by serial killers.

Day 26: A Nightmare metformin 500 mg dosage on Elm Street (1984)

“One, two, Freddy’s coming for you.
Three, four, better lock your door.
Five, six, grab your crucifix.
Seven, eight, better stay awake.
Nine, ten, never sleep again.”

You can keep your Friday the 13ths and your Halloweens, because A Nightmare on Elm Street will always be the mac daddy of ’80s slashers to me. Freddy Krueger is not just a demonic killer; instead of being bound in Hell after his death, he stalks you while you dream. In life the guy was a pedophile, and now he’s hunting down the children (now in high school) who got away before he was killed. That’s true horror.

Day 25: Friday the 13th (1980)

“You’re Doomed! You’re all doomed!”

Like with several of the slasher flicks of the ’80s, if Friday the 13th were released today it would tank. Why? Because there isn’t a story. Once the word gets out that a movie has a practically non-existent story that’s only purpose is to mildly connect each kill to the next, the movie is DOA. Friday the 13th is the greatest offender of this, but the direction is so good that it doesn’t matter that there isn’t a story until the last fifteen minutes of the movie.

Day 21: Paranormal Activity (2009)

“You cannot run from this- it will follow you. It may lay dormant for years. Something may trigger it to become more active and it may over time reach out to communicate with you.”

The handicam, “found footage” genre that The Blair Witch Project popularized is fundamentally flawed, because it relies solely on a tremendous amount of disbelief from the audience. Without “going with it” the movie fails, because it doesn’t have the budget, the cinematography, the A-list actors, or the special effects to use as a crutch. The genre relies completely on the actors’ ability to sell the material, or essentially, convince us that there is something scary in the movie that we may never see on screen.

Dan Aykroyd has been desperately trying to get the gears spinning on Ghostbusters 3 for the better part of a decade. There were rumors of Ghostbusters Go to Hell, and a mid-90s pitch that would have brought Saturday Night Live stars of the period together to don the proton packs (Chris Farley, anyone?). After the shockingly good (spooktacular??) almost-sequel videogame, I don’t think I was the only fan left wanting more.

Fresh from the SCREAM 2010 Awards comes the trailer for Scream 4 from legendary horror director Wes Craven. The film reunites Scream trilogy survivors Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, and David Arquette with new comers (read as: fodder for Ghostface) Kristen Bell, Hayden Panettiere, Emma Roberts, and Rory Culkin. Courtesy of some random audience member and his trusty camera or cellphone, I give you the trailer for Scream 4 (with World Premiere intro from Campbell, Craven & co.).

Check out the leaked trailer after the jump!