Retro Slashers

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The new print ad for Happy Birthday to Me includes a quote from Lance Vaughan’s Retro Slasher review for the film.  The quote can be found directly below the dvd and beside the Amazon logo.  To read Lance’s review click here: retroslashers.net/review_happybday.htm

Any Halloween fan wanting to know more about the rest of the night HE came home should check out Pat Jankiewicz’s interesting retrospective in the current issue of Fangoria. Director Rick Rosenthal reveals how behind-the-scenes battles between John Carpenter and Dino De Laurentiis changed what scenes made it into the final film. Dean Cundey and [...]

Hitting tomorrow on October 27th from Mya/Ryko is an old one you might not be familiar with – EVIL FACE (1974) starring the eternally disturbing Klaus Kinski. Baron Ivan Rassimov, a brilliant doctor, died horribly during a fire burst in his laboratory. Since that day, his daughter Tanja (Katia Christine) retired to a life of [...]

On October 27, Jonathan Lewis’ BLACK DEVIL DOLL is finally released! See what all the fuss is about. Five beautiful young women… one evil, murderous puppet. Heather thought that a Ouija board was nothing but an innocent child’s game. Little did she know, this child’s game would open a flaming door to hell and re-animate [...]

You have to hand it to Amsterdamned – it’s got one hell of a gimmick. By 1988, the slasher genre had given us killers who hid their faces behind hockey masks, gasmasks, clown masks, William Shatner masks, owl masks, pillow cases, chunks of stitched-together human skin… It was only a matter of time before one [...]