What is there to give thanks for if you can’t give some love to the best Thanksgiving slasher ever, Home Sweet Home. OK, it’s the only Thanksgiving Day slasher I can think of but still, you get my meaning.
Now pass the stuffing… And have a great day, willya?

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Retro Slashers’ dear friend Joseph Henson of the Bodycount Continues board (which is temporarily down) has created a niftly little blog called 80s Slasher Cup as a place to vote for your favorite slashers.
This is how it works kids, every day Joe picks 2 movies and pits them up agains each other. Their survival is [...]

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Whatever is going to happen in the new My Bloody Valentine has already been signed, sealed and delivered. It is what it is. I think it’s got tons of potential, but being the die hard fan I am I can’t help but hope that they will keep the elements that made the original such a [...]

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I first caught The Unnamable on USA’s Saturday Nightmares at a ripe age when horror movies were leaving quite the impression on me. To say that this movie became a huge influence would be an understatement. It introduced me to not only a great film but also to the work of H.P. Lovecraft, who I [...]

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Some things I learned in Texas:
Texas Grub = Awesomeness
Austinites are good people
You can drink beer in the theaters
Well, you can at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema anyway. And check it: Every Thursday this month, they have something called Terror Thursdays
Tonight’s flick: The Boogens
Oh. My. God.
I’m not sure this is a regular thing or if it’s only [...]

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Sure, it says you don’t have to go there to get your chainsaw massacre, but I’m leaving for the Lone Star State tomorrow night anyway and will be back next week. Who knows if carnage awaits but a girl can still dream, right?

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Since it’s been a not-great work week, I thought it might be nice to have something pretty to look at. And tomorrow is FRIDAY! YAY!

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It might be a little late in mentioning, but Lilyan Chauvin who played the incredibly terrifying Mother Superior in Silent Night, Deadly Night passed away on June 26th of this year.
Some things about Miss Chauvin you might not know:

She was quite beautiful (She was actually compared to Greta Garbo)

She was a DGA Director (how cool [...]

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Anyone here remember White Sister? Well, I hope so because they were the band featured in the clever movie-within-a-music-video-within-a-movie at the beginning of Killer Party. That’s one band I always thought was created for a film. I mean, they just look too much of their time, you know? But I was wrong. This band was [...]

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Let’s face it, as far as slashers go the 90s was a big fat dud. It’s not like the late 80s were always something to write home about but at least there were some good attempts and honestly, the direct to video market, which was just beginning to take off, offered some potential to the [...]

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