Unsurprisingly, nostalgia is taking over most Hollywood film productions. Whether through references here and there, remakes or sequels made decades after the first film, the feeling of “old was better” is more and more true.
Even if that feeling doesn’t evoke exactly good things.
In 2022 alone, we had more than a dozen slasher films being released in Brazil and abroad. In this account, for example, the sequences of “Scream” (1996), “Halloween” (1978) and the remake of “Hellraiser” (1987).
Usually low-budget, slasher movies follow the same formula: young adults gathered together who end up being targeted by a psychopathic serial killer who kills randomly.
The genre is simple and, perhaps because of its low complexity, it has been reinvented several times over the decades since its pioneer, “Halloween”.
The first reinvention came with “Scream” and I dare say we’re living the second, with “X – The Mark of Death”, “Pearl” (a prequel to “X”), and “Death, Death, Death”, all released in 2022 and by the same producer dear to moviegoers, A24.
Formerly “violence for the sake of violence”, the new slasher comes with a footprint more similar to terror without so much killing: that of social commentary.
“Death, Death, Death” second long of Halina Reijn for example, brings the characteristics of the genre to the present day.
Killers calling their victims? No, they are now on TikTok. Do the murders take place in a camp? No, a mansion with young people partying. Who killed everyone? Nobody knows.
Telling the story of a group of post-teens, the film brings a game that has crossed the line. At a party that takes place as a hurricane passes through the United States, participants receive one card each. Whoever receives the card marked with an “X” is the game’s killer and must touch the back of another participant, killing that person.
However, nothing is as simple as it seems. The relationships of this group of friends are shaken by a series of situations and traumas that are revealed along with the bodies that appear in every corner of the house.
With the actors and actresses chosen for the characters, another reinvention of the genre. Unlike the conventional slasher movie, the actors in “Death, Death, Death” are already famous.
On the list are the ex-boyfriend of Kim Kardashian , Pete Davidson , Amandla Stenberg who has starred in “The Hunger Games” (2012), and Rachel Senott the queen of “indie” who starred in “Shiva Baby” (2020).
Another twist of the slasher genre: the dialogues are very well written. In a long scene of washing dirty clothes, you can see a neat script that manages to scare and make the viewer laugh seconds later.
It is possible to laugh at the completely absurd situations in which these people get involved and at the very nudge that the film gives to generation Z, born between the years 1996 and 2010.
The end of the film, therefore, summarizes the anxiety and immediacy with which this generation lives daily, but, forget masks and chainsaws, the newest serial killer is in the palm of our hand, on our cell phone.
Watch the trailer for “Death, Death, Death”:
Source: CNN Brasil
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