The Knife (improved)

The weapon of choice for my antagonist is going to be a knife, as is with most slasher films. This is to get a shock from the audience with the slow death and the amount of blood a stabbing wound create. I have seen prop knives that use pumps to transfer fake blood to the blade so it looks like blood is being drawn from the victim. I have found tutorials as well as websites that sell these props.

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-To-Create-A-Realistic-Bleeding-Knife-Effect/

I would prefer to buy them, but they may cost too much, so I fear I may have to make my own.

Jason Voorhees of Friday the 13th

The killer will wield a large knife, almost the size of a machete. This is because it has strong links to popular slasher films (Friday the 13th etc.) and is commonly associated with brutal murder. As the killer has remained feral for 2+ decades, a modern kitchen knife would not be accessible to him. although it has been used in slasher films (such as Halloween and Psycho). It is possible that the killer could wield an old rusted kitchen knife, which would add to his feral background, but it depends if I can source the machete.

Mike Myers of Halloween

A pocket knife isn't shocking or large enough and is associated with petty crime, nor would it be suitable for several of the death scenes. An option is a bowie knife, but these are more military thriller (such as the Rambo series) than horror. This may be an option and it is large enough, but I feel that a machete style blade is more terrifying and is more commonly established in similar texts. A meat cleaver is as terrifying, but does not stab, instead it chops, so would not be suitable. The meat cleaver is only featured in one notable horror film I am aware of, which is the meatcleaver massacre, a bad example of slasher                                                                                      films and by no means a classic.