Archive for March 2011
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A Retro Slasher Salute to USA Network 1985-1995
These days USA Network is known for wrasslin’, Law & Order marathons, and hip original shows like Burn Notice. Back in the 1980s and early 1990s USA featured some really wild and crazy shows, the kind of shows that stay with impressionable young children long after they’ve turned old and gray. So here’s a fond look back at [...]
Troma’s Mother’s Day Coming To Blu-Ray
A remake may be out in a few weeks and an appendage-movie in Father’s Day later, but June 7 brings Mother’s Day (1980) home on blu-ray. Not typical Troma fare at all, but back then 80′s Troma wasn’t really Troma yet. I always found the flick somewhat atypical and unsafe. The opening scene pulls a [...]
Is Mass Market Horror Fiction Dead?
Over the last thirty years the market for horror novels has exploded, dried up to almost nothing, found new life through the splatterpunk movement, died off again, and then made a comeback through Leisure Books’ line of mass market horror novels. Last September, Leisure shut down their paperback lines with all future publications coming out in electronic [...]
Early Bird SOV Slasher Sledgehammer Coming To DVD
Start-up distributor Intervision Pictures Corp, who have a name and logo right out of the 1980′s, will release Sledgehammer (1983) to DVD on May 10. There’s something about a clear “laughing” mask that’s creepy beyond Michael Myers’ pale mug. Variations of it have been commonly employed in horror movies as a prankster’s tool (Friday The [...]
Blue Underground Bring The Nesting To DVD/Blu-Ray
The terror that hides inside your mind will soon be the terror that hides in your media player. Armand Weston’s The Nesting (1980) is coming to DVD and BD from Blue Underground on June 28. This is quite the unexpected announcement as the title has long been associated with Code Red DVD as a future [...]
The Slasher Expeditions Part 2: The Attic of Terror
There once was a local Pic-A-Flick-Video store that was home to the greatest collection of horror movies I’ve ever seen. What made this store so special was its location, a two story building. Downstairs was pretty much like every other video store, but the upstairs was Shangri-La for horror fans. The shelves held hundreds of beautifully [...]