Retro Slashers

I feel kinda guilty I never kept up with CBS TV’s HARPER’S ISLAND, but the only serial TV show I can fit into my busy life is LOST and only LOST. But I digress:  HARPER’S ISLAND was pitched as a simple concept – a finite series where each week, another character/suspect is knocked off and [...]

Because reciprocal links are so 1998. Critical Condition – a long running website that started as a fanzine in the early 80’s. I can only hope 25 years from now that Retro Slashers is still thriving in some medium. There are reviews aplenty but the crowning achievement of editor/publisher Fred Adelman is his Visual History [...]

As we’ve said before, strictly opinion here, but THE STEPFATHER (whether speaking original or remake) has a rather predictable storyline, so seeing as how the old one was held together by Terry O’Quinn’s amazing portrayal of a suburban psycho, our only real interest in the redux is how Dylan Walsh handles the character.

Our friends at Horror Yearbook have been posting some smokin’ images in their “Women Of Sorority Row” series. Some are Not Safe For Work, and clearly labeled as such, but most are fine – regardless, they’re all hotties – so if you’re psyched for SORORITY ROW (2009), do your duty!

Ronald D. Moore’s FUTURE-KILL (1985) faced illustrating a large story with a limited budget. A big part of its success in demonstrating a bleak, near-future vision was not what you see, but what you hear. Film composer Robert Renfrow’s electronic score perfectly complimented the on-screen action. Unlike many composers who start working on films after [...]

Back on June 30th we sadly informed you of the passing of Fred Travalena, star of lost slasher NIGHT OF THE DRIBBLER (1995). Code Red DVD have posted a comment on the man and film, and have also set a Release Date of September 8th – bittersweet news.

Noted comedy entertainer Fred Travalena (IMDB Profile) has passed away at age 66. The amiable funnyman played three different roles in the unreleased slasher spoof NIGHT OF THE DRIBBLER (1995) and has a veritable laundry list of stand-up, impersonator and acts gigs. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.
As recently as March, [...]

Movies are a collaborative medium, but if you had to place just one face to THE NAIL GUN MASSACRE (1985) – everyone’s favorite 80’s nail gun slasher film (by default!) – it’d be writer/producer/director Terry Lofton. Terry took some time during the 20th Anniversary to answer all our nitpicky questions, for which we’re grateful.

While this set visit isn’t too revealing or juicy, it is refreshing in that it isn’t an exercise in ass-kissery as most web reports of set visits are (aw gush, they invited me “on set”, I must be important and this must be the best movie ever!) – in fact, the reporter seems veritably ho-hum [...]

September 15 sees release of THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE COLLECTION from New Line, a single disc containing both the company’s modern interpretations of Leatherface – THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACE (2003) and THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE BEGINNING (2006). It’s double the terror and double the massacre! Unfortunately it’s not double the chainsaw. I remember playing [...]