Retro Slashers

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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 off simple [...]