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Here We Are At Halloween
A quiet halloween for me. I’ve been sick all week, and as a result of carving my first ever jack-o-lantern way too early in the month, it has rotted and sunken in on itself, causing it to look a little like Abe Vigoda if his face imploded. So that’s two points against an enjoyable halloween. [...]
Robert Englund, D’Onofrio’s Don’t Go in the Woods at this years NYC Horror Film Festival
The 2010 New York City Horror Film Festival will feature a slasher legend and a slasher musical. Robert Englund will receive this years Lifetime Achievement Award on November 13th, at 10:00 P.M. After the ceremony there will be a special screening of the original A Nightmare on Elm Street. Englund will also attend a genre panel [...]
6 More Days To Halloween: Everyone Deserves A Halloween Treat
My sometimes collaborator but always friend Dustin over at Retro Horror Remix recently released Halloween Treat 2 though the internet’s version of VCD, the torrent.
7 More Days To Halloween: The Tough Sell Of Trick Or Treats
Every Halloween on Retro Slashers I mention Gary Graver’s Trick Or Treat (1982). A movie deeply underloved, even by the slasher crowds that hold Don’t Go In The Woods Alone and The Prey up as pinnacles of retro-slasherdom. Last year’s gratuitous mention warranted some speckled comments killing the movie criticism and worse – indifference.
8 More Days To Halloween: Coming To Terms With Season Of The Witch
As we approach All Hallows Eve I’m struck by the annual feeling that Halloween: Season Of The Witch is the most “Halloweenish” of the whole series. It always bothered me on one level at least – it’s a holdover from the ‘robot duplicate takeover’ plots from the 70′s that by the early 80′s was mostly [...]