Retro Slashers

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Just a reminder that Slaughter High is coming to DVD in April from Lionsgate in Uncut form (but probably without those black bars that many genre fans worship). What better primer is there than this awesome vintage (did I just say 80′s is vintage now? I am so old) Vestron Video trailer! Thanks to ‘VestronDan’.

A notch above most Young Adult thrillers thanks to its author’s dryly humorous tone, Deadly Detention is a playful riff on school-set slasher movies that whistles along swiftly and keeps up the suspense to the end. Think back to the 1985 John Hughes movie The Breakfast Club and, if you’re anything like me, you’ll remember [...]

Charles Winecoff’s biography on the late, great slasher icon Anthony Perkins reveals the actor was much more complex, more troubled, and sometimes more crazed than any of the characters he portrayed. Now, out of respect to Perkins, I’m not going into all of the lurid details of his private life, but I will mention his [...]

Blood and Lace (1971) Proto-Slashers: Looking at the flicks that paved the way for Halloween and the heyday of slashers. “Lurid”. What a great word. It promises the taboo and the gruesome. And it’s the perfect word to describe “Blood and Lace”, the 1971 picture from AIP. In fact, the sleaze factor is a key [...]

Christian Sellers is back with more reviews posted on our MySpace and a neat article on a real-life slasher: Ed Gein. The following titles are reviewed, so check ‘em out! Friday The 13th Part 2, Twitch Of The Death Nerve, The Burning, A Nightmare On Elm Street, The Boogeyman, Jason Goes To Hell: The Final [...]