SLasherEG5: Slashers

Dvd cover

Slashers
(Maurice Devereaux, 2001)

Budget: $165 000 (estimated)
Didn't have a theatrical release.

opening shot

Slashers immediately starts with dramatic music and a shot of people running through some kind of colourful maze and screaming. There are no titles, idents or credits. Within 3 seconds of the film starting you can see who is chasing them and within 6 seconds the first victim has been killed.  The first death is framed as a medium long shot with the victim and killer in the centre of the shot. The blood looks quite fake in this first killing.

tv show opening

first killing

The next shot you see in the opening is of somebody talking and subtitles of what they are saying coming on at the bottom of the screen. There is some kind of audience behind him and it is a medium close up of the speakers face. All the signs in the background that the audience have signify that it is some kind of TV show, and maybe these killings are involved. This is then anch

tv credits

ored as the opening credits to this TV start showing that these killers are the 'stars' of this show.

tv show opening titles

The opening credits to this TV show cheerleaders singing and encouraging the killers (slashers) to kill the people. The next shots are of what the viewers would see of the show. There continues to be subtitles on the bottom of the screen when the male host is speaking in Japanese. The shots continue to be from the viewers point of view watching from the TV at home and show a lot of panning shots of the audience and cheerleaders and medium close ups of the hosts talking.

By this point it is into the main plot of the film and there hasn't been any credits or titles of any kind. This makes it hard to identify the length of the opening sequence.