Idk what is up with all the good reviews on Slayer. As a huge late 70s- early 80s horror & slasher fan I did not like it hardly at all. I am getting down to the bottom of the barrel watching slashers & horror I somehow missed back in the day- usually go find I rather re-watch my favorites. I love it when I get lucky & find a gem I missed but this is a perfect example of the bottom, leftover choices) I still needed to see tho!) In fact the only thing I liked was the feel of the time period & atmosphere of the island. The island no sane group of people would have gotten dropped off at with no resources to send or call for help! Yes this was 1981 no cell phones etc -but they didn't have a landline & got dropped off by private plane by one guy- who seemed weird of course (he was the old timer "warning" them ala crazy Ralph except he was also the pilot that their lives depended on to get back home again...lol. ) & there was a big storm coming to boot. The island didn't seem like the best vacation spot -it seemed deserted, creepy & they had to walk over a mile with all their luggage just to get to the house they were staying at. Anyway get past all that & they stilll make really bad "let's split up" style decisions all through the movie. Lol- but it's too borrrrring to be unintentionally funny. Or scary. There was a couple times it got tense but by the time it payed off to anything I was tired of watching the scene. The ending? Don't get me started. So dumb. What did it even mean exactly? There were like, 2 parts, to the ending - both dumb!! I guessss it meant she was dreaming the whole thing as a child? Or was she just having a flashback.
People are comparing it to Nightmare on Elm Street, or saying it was an influence. I felt like no, it was just some lazy side story almost that wasn't even explained correctly (her dreams in relation to whatever we just watched) the only part that sort of explained that maybe we were supposed to be watching something like NOES was when she was drinking coffee & saying to herself to just stay awake. So I suppose she was supposed to be conjuring this thing up since her companions only got killed when she was asleep?? What about the fisherman tho? Was she asleep then? Doesn't really explain this well at all.
People are comparing it to Nightmare on Elm Street, or saying it was an influence. I felt like no, it was just some lazy side story almost that wasn't even explained correctly (her dreams in relation to whatever we just watched) the only part that sort of explained that maybe we were supposed to be watching something like NOES was when she was drinking coffee & saying to herself to just stay awake. So I suppose she was supposed to be conjuring this thing up since her companions only got killed when she was asleep?? What about the fisherman tho? Was she asleep then? Doesn't really explain this well at all.