I’m a little bit country, I’m a little bit rock and roll. Yeah, I like my movies gory and scary. As time passes, I’ve discovered a camp of moviegoers who find gore scary and sometimes prefer the sharp end of a blade to a shot of a bomb under a table, ticking away. Far be [...]

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Somebody asked me why I like horror and I wrote the following essay. Now if only I could remember who asked and why! I stumbled across this and thought it relevant to Retro Slashers, so here goes! Enjoy!
I have wondered for many years now what it is that draws me to horror films, and what [...]

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So, I woke this morning and instead of doing the eons of chores I have ahead of me, I sat down and decided that I must know all about Klaus Kinski today. I’m not sure how I got to this epiphany, but here I am. I stumbled across this pretty amusing short film by the [...]

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The San Diego Comic-Con is in full effect, and screenwriter Todd Farmer here shows off the snazzy poster art for the upcoming My Bloody Valentine 3D. Looks like a proud papa, don’t he? Send all cigars to wendago.com. This is a redux I’m definitely looking forward to - Harry Warden escaping the 2nd Dimension. Rock [...]

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My future drinking buddy Wil over at Horror Yearbook recently alerted me that the [Bastards! Bastards! Bastards! at] Grindhouse Releasing have finally finished up work on their 2-Disc Special Edition DVD of Pieces and slated that chunkola of cheese for an October 28th release.
I’ve always felt this 1982 Spanish slasher stands as a vestigial counterpart [...]

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Maybe I’m spreading this thought too thin, because there is psychological motivation in most slashers. Whether it be Jason avenging mommy’s death or the sociopathic stalking of the unstoppable force known as Michael Myers, some kind of inner demon (the non-literal kind) has inhabited the most notorious killers of the slasher genre. And then there [...]

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There was a server transfer yesterday, and the unforeseen byproduct was that it flipped the blog back 2 or 3 days, hence one wonderful article by Amanda By Night was lost, as were some comments across various posts. Amanda has graciously offered to repost the article tommorow, but I’m a bit bummed some of your [...]

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It’ll be August 19th before you know it, when Code Red’s 2-disc set of Danny Steinmann’s The Unseen (1981) streets. Prepare to feel Junior’s wrath!
Disc 1: Brand New Anamorphic 16×9 transfer from the original IP, Audio Commentary with Producer Tony Unger and star Stephen Furst moderated by Lee Christian, On camera interview with co-stars Furst [...]

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Sometimes I’ve duped myself into thinking I’ve discovered a lost slasher, such was the situation with Cardiac Arrest (1980). With a poster like that, how can you go wrong? I suspect deep down I knew it was just a case of Film Ventures International playing up a thriller to the slasher craze, so it wasn’t [...]

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I’ll admit it up front: Retro Slashers has been out of shape for quite a while. But it wasn’t always that way - sit down, listen to the story. We came out with a well-received revamp of the website in late 2006 which was built around a news/updates/comments system on the front page. It was [...]

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