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Shock Festival DVD Review
The dvd companion to Stephen Romano’s excellent Shock Festival book is out now and it is a must have for slasher lovers, exploitation junkies, and movie nostalgia fiends. If you grew up watching movies in 42nd Street grindhouses or southern drive-ins, then get ready for major flashbacks because Shock Festival brings back our childhood friends. [...]
Terror Stalks the Class Reunion (1992) Review
Get a load of that title… Did you ever hear anything that sounded more like a slasher movie? Unfortunately, Terror Stalks the Class Reunion isn’t a lost slasher – for a start, there’s no slashing – but, while part of me is writing this review to stop others repeating my mistake, it’s also worth pointing [...]
Retro Slashers In HorrorHound Magazine
Check out the latest issue of HorrorHound, #22 It’s got A-Z retro slasher coverage and a retrospective on Media Home Entertainment, the company that brought many slasher delights to your VHS deck!
Proto-Slashers #12 – Blood Feast (1963)
Looking at the flicks that paved the way for Halloween and the heyday of slasher movies.
“Blood Feast is like a Walt Whitman poem – it’s no good, but it’s the first of its type”.
- Blood Feast director Hershell Gordon Lewis
Blood Feast is a joy. The world’s first splatter film delivers the goods and manages to [...]
The Monster Squad remake is in the works
Platinum Dunes and Paramount are working on a remake of The Monster Squad. Rob Cohen, one of the producers of the original, is set to direct for Michael Bay and company. No word yet on who is handling the script or who might be in the cast. Legend has it Liam Neeson was the original choice to play [...]
The Back Lot Murders (2002)
Note:I originally wrote this review several years ago and it’s gone from site to site. As the years have passed, I’ve come to find this little ditty has grown on me, so there have been some edits. This might not be Corey Haim’s shining moment, but it’s not a bad little slasher either. RIP Corey. You were [...]
Private Parts (1973)
Cheryl (Ayn Ruymen), on the run after stealing her roomate’s cash, hides out at the King Edward Hotel run by her creepy Aunt Martha (Lucille Benson). Other tenants include a kinky priest (Laurie Main) and George (John Ventantonio), a sinister photographer with a nasty addiction to blow-up dolls. At night Cheryl hears mysterious noises coming [...]
