Retro Slashers

You are browsing the archives of 2010 July.

Retro Slashers Bar & Grill is proud to present the first slasher battle of the bands.  It’s The Clowns vs Headmistress this Saturday night to see who is the baddest slasher metal band on the planet.  Prepare for a night of slammin’, jammin’, and rammin’ to the hit songs “I’m Back”, “Killer on the Loose”, “Rainbow [...]

Our new Retro Slasher Forums are now open…
retroslashers.net/board

This first article in a new series focusing on great slasher-movie chase scenes looks at 1979’s The Demon, a not-so-hot horror flick with a hotter-than-hot climax. Prepare for disappearing dressing gowns, gratuitous nudity, and the most ingenious use of a showerhead and some bubble bath since MacGyver accidentally wedged himself in his shower cubicle while [...]

The tradition of telling ghost stories and urban legends around a campfire got an upgrade during the early 1980s when slasher films used campfire chillers to reveal the origin of their star killers.  A campfire chiller is usually told by an authority figure to frighten or warn campers and junior counselors.  While the authority figure details the [...]

The most requested feature is finally finished, the Reviews Index – linking every review on our website, past and present. There’s a link at the top above the banner for easy access.
Now that that job is out of the way, a Retro Slashers forum will be along in the next few days as a remedy [...]

In 1983, Hikmet Avedis & wife Marlene Schmidt wrote & produced Mortuary, which Hikmet directed. A year later they were back in the same capacity with They’re Playing With Fire. Taking the plot of their 1974 movie The Teacher, and Eric Brown – the star of the popular Private Lessons (1981), it starts [...]

My name is Thomas E., and I’m a slasher addict.  I’ve struggled with this addiction for three decades now and I doubt I will ever be cured.  The truth is I don’t want to be cured.  I enjoy my slasher cravings and revel in the euphoria brought on by finding a rare title or watching a really [...]

A Lost Slasher no more! Code Red are bringing the late Joe Spinelli’s psycho-slasher The Undertaker to DVD in October. Our own Thomas Ellison investigated the film and also recently reviewed it. And now you’ll get to see it to. Taking things one step further, Code Red are offering fans to vote which cover it [...]

Here is the artwork for The Psycho Legacy 2-Disc DVD, arriving October 19th from Shout Factory.
For the whole story on this highly anticipated doco (come on, we all know Psycho is the granddaddy of the slasher film), you’ll want to check out our Interview with Robert Galluzzo, conducted last year when the director was still [...]

Press Release:
Cult Collectibles is proud to announce the release of its first “Weird Wobbler” bobblehead style figure from one of the most outrageous underground films ever made: BLACK DEVIL DOLL! Pre-orders are available now with product shipping in September 2010!
The 2008 film is the story of an executed Black militant who is reincarnated into [...]

After a jilted lover (Tom Rolfing) kills his ex-bride-to-be, he decides justice has not been served and decides that all women preparing for their upcoming nuptials need to meet the sharp end of his knife. The killer has arrived in a new town looking for Amy (Caitlin O’Heaney) and her wedding party to make perfect, [...]

Joe Giannone’s Madman (shot in 1980, released 1982) has experienced a resurgence with slasher fans in recent years similar to the Sleepaway Camp movement. Yet this has all been contrary to the increasing rarity of the film since Anchor Bay’s DVD went out of print.
But that’s about to be remedied as Code Red DVD prepare [...]

While Code Red DVD have released some mouth-watering rarities, their status as the Criterion Of Horror is constantly kneecapped by their seeming reluctance to engage customers about the status of several long-delayed titles.
But nonetheless, the excellent long-running website Horror DVDs has often played public confidant to the company in the past, and today brings positive [...]

On August 10 Code Red DVD releases the 35th Anniversary Edition of Horror High (1974 – do the math on that one). No relation to Return To Horror High (1987), though close together VHS release dates of both films in some countries implied as such, Larry Stouffer’s movie is actually a reliable stock proto-slasher.