[quote=“BioBasterd”]
Halloween revitalized the slasher genre, the genre that Sire Hitchcock created with Psycho. And the distribution was minimal at first. It made virtually no money, but thanks to word of mouth - it garnered a large audience and then kablamo! It was picked up and it became a staple horror film. The films that this bad boy spawned were: Friday The 13th, Silent Night Deadly Night, Nightmare On Elm Street (sort of) - and other 80s-90s cheesy knockoffs.
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Yeah I know all that, but I don’t see why he seen this fit for grindhouse criteria. Certainly by the reasons you listed, it wouldn’t be classified as grindhouse, but more likely “cult”.
He’s probably judging it on where it first played when it was released.