Retro Slashers

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Everything about Cruising is difficult. The plotting is labyrinthine, the tone relentlessly sleazy, and there’s bound to be something about it that offends you, whether it’s the extremes of the subject matter or the social attitudes of the time, which, like everything else in the film, positively perspire off the screen. But is it worth [...]

Maniac Cop (1988) is the apex of slasher-hybrids, defining the fine-line criteria by flawlessly combining the slasher film and the action film while being comfortable sitting on the video store shelves of either.

While a huge part of my heart belongs to slashers, another section is reserved solely for shark attack films. I’m sure it goes back to coming of age during the release of Spielberg’s original classic, which was so successful the term “blockbuster” was coined. Like the first Jaws, the sequel was plagued with problems, but [...]

Here’s the full trailer to the Retro Slashers-produced movie Terror at Black Tree Forest. A homage to the sackheady goodness of The Town That Dreaded Sundown and Friday The 13th Part 2, the flick was directed by Dustin Ferguson who is launching RHR Home Video – a new DVD label to distribute already-completed and upcoming [...]

With their potential high return on low investment, slasher movies became the must-make sub-genre on every studio’s production slate in the early 80’s. It was only a matter of time before studios began hedging their bets, injecting slasher tropes into other film styles. In 1983, The Canon Group released its slasher-infused 10 to Midnight, a [...]

Okay, this is more like it! Over the weekend, Fangoria premiered the trailer for upcoming documentary Slice and Dice: The Slasher Film Forever. In speaking with the doco’s co-director Calum Waddell, its angle is revealed: “So this is a totally different approach to the subject matter, with interviewees who are a little cultier than usual [...]

Just a quick one, guys – wanted to let you know of some additions to the site. First off, Retro Slasherzine is a PDF version of our latest ten articles and you can generally find a link up in the header. It uses a clean newspaper layout, and it doesn’t use images – basically this [...]

Code Red have released covers for three titles we previously exclusively broke news on: Mardi Gras Massacre, Haunted, and Night of The Demon. As well, they have four older releases going out as double packs – Scream/Barn of The Naked Dead and Love Me Deadly/Curious Case of The Campus Corpse. Barn, it should be noted, [...]

On September 27, Warner will release A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (Review) and A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors to Blu-ray in a 2-movie set, report Blu-ray.com. No real details available yet but if they’re mashing up two flicks into one pack – and possibly one disc, expect it [...]

In anticipation of their future DVD special editions from Arrow, Slaughter High and The Funhouse will receive a back-to-back theatrical screening in Scotland, Fangoria‘s Michael Gingold reports. Also of note, a new slasher documentary is on the way – hopefully it’ll be better than Going To Pieces, a doco everyone loves – but for the [...]