Retro Slashers

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Intruder (1989) is a can-full of contained awesomeness, and if you haven’t read Intruder Thoughts From A Real Retail Worker, I curse you to a supermarket shopping line behind several senior citizens. Trust me, it sucks. So Synapse’s Intruder Blu-Ray has been in the works for a little while, and it’s still unscheduled, but things [...]

From the mid-1960’s through the mid-1980’s, Italy was the hot spot for gialli. In fact, it’s the birthplace of this brand of thriller, beginning with Mario Bava’s The Girl Who Knew Too Much in 1963. Though he’s not as widely praised as his fellow countrymen Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci and Mario Bava when it comes [...]

Heather Langenkamp’s new documentary I Am Nancy is now available through her website iamnancy.net and can be seen at any horror convention Langenkamp attends. The project came about when A Nightmare on Elm Street‘s Langenkamp discovered she and her character Nancy Thompson had been forgotten by horror fans. Even worse, members of Wes Craven’s staff had [...]

Welcome to another theme month here at Retro Slashers! We’re going Italian for the month of August, and soon enough you’ll be Eyeball-deep in pastaland panache. Spanning primarily the 60′s, 70′s & 80′s, Giallo is a subgenre composed of suspense, mystery and blood, combined with high filmic style more often than not – and when [...]

So Terror At Black Tree Forest is now available! Dustin Ferguson’s flick, which I was a producer on, is a bag-headed ode to Friday The 13th Part 2 (1981) but more substantially, Charles Pierce’s The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976). Check out this neat Wizard Video throwback promo vid for RHR Home Video’s release of [...]