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Semi-protected edit request on 15 July 2021 edit
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In the "origins" section, there is the following ambiguous sentence:
"Maurice Tourneur's The Lunatics (1912) used visceral violence to attract the Guignol's audience; films like this eventually led to public outcry in the United States, eventually passing the Hays Code in 1930."
Grammatically, this sentence literally says that "The Lunatics" was what passed the Hays Code, when what is meant is that the United States passed the Hays Code. A clearer way of phrasing this would be:
Maurice Tourneur's The Lunatics (1912) used visceral violence to attract the Guignol's audience. In the United States, public outcry over films like this led to the passage of the Hays Code in 1930. 2601:249:8100:AB10:C531:FD28:2040:1581 (talk) 12:12, 15 July 2021 (UTC)
Done, and thank you for your input! P.I. Ellsworth ed. put'r there 23:14, 15 July 2021 (UTC)
No link? edit
The opening sentence has the word "subgenre" linked, but horror film is not?? Really? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.86.46.50 (talk) 01:47, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
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- Specific text to be added or removed: just add a wiki link to horror film in the first sentence. Probably remove subgenre as a wikilink.
- Reason for the change: because it's obviously needed.
- References supporting change: unnecessary.
- Done. Heartmusic678 (talk) 13:23, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
Clean-up edit
I've tagged several statements and items that require a clean-up in this article. So much of it is just material stating films were financial success or not, assuming why or why not they may have been this, then citing box office mojo and rotten tomatoes. There is no mention of this in their respective sources, nor is there mention of them even belonging to the slasher genre. A real over view needs to be done to make this less like it was written from a fan perspective. I've dumped out just listing international productions as just saying this country released this or that, doesn't really add up to much. Andrzejbanas (talk) 15:17, 12 March 2024 (UTC)