Retro Slashers

Jim Harper has written a book about the slasher genre entitled LEGACY OF BLOOD: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO SLASHER MOVIES, released in the UK in 2004. The blurb reads: The “slasher” movie is the bloodiest incarnation of the modern horror film, tainted by criticisms of misogyny, yet remaining-on and off-a box-office draw for 30 years. [...]

On October 6th, First Look Home Entertainment unleash IT’S ALIVE to DVD in Unrated and Standard flavors.
A remake of the Larry Cohen 70’s classic which “spawned” two sequels, this time around a young woman (Bijou Phillips) learns that she is pregnant, so leaves graduate school to set up a home with her boyfriend in the [...]

Surely by now you know of Retro Slashers‘ love for the HALLOWEEN comics from Devil’s Due. They’ve been the only place in the entire universe – real as well as fictional – to get further chapters of the franchise starring Classic Michael Myers. You know, walks, shaped like a normal man, wears a non-descript clean [...]

Aw, ain’t the little one cute? If you haven’t ever watched the TV Series DEXTER, you’re missing one helluva ride. It’s sardonic serial killer slayings are of prime interest if you enjoyed say, AMERICAN PSYCHO (2000). Season 4 is on the way in September, and it’s gonna feature John Frickin’ Lithgow in the adversarial killer [...]

Few outside the slasher fanbase remember 1980’s To All A Goodnight. Even those inside will cite a hamhanded plot, slackjaw-inducing character actions, and an unconvincing yet excitable spray of oatmeal gore from an airplane propellor – but like many slashers from the era, like it or hate it, pointing out its misgivings is half the [...]

Wow. Just wow. I believe horror news sites have hit a new low by creating news based around an image of a near empty freakin’ coffee cup with barely the tips of Freddy’s new glove blades visible. Big whup. However I got so many emails asking to see this, so since I am beholden to [...]

Here’s the theatrical trailer for THE STEPFATHER (2009), hitting screens October 16th from Sony Screen Gems, who brought you the PROM NIGHT redux.

I only throw bad basketball puns your way to mask my disappointment that Code Red’s NIGHT OF THE DRIBBLER (1995) has been delayed. Pretty much the most anticipated lost slasher since it never came out in any format, I guess what’s a few more months after about a decade plus? Read on for some Code [...]

The long shelved but buzz-gathering anthology TRICK R TREAT got a spot on the FRIDAY THE 13th (2009) KILLER CUT Blu-Ray disc showing off 9 minutes of the flick. While Blu-Ray can be somewhat problematic in ripping to PC (I guess that’s partially the idea), an enterprising individual has filmed the on-screen action and uploaded [...]

We recently reviewed the Last Horror Film Uncut Special Edition DVD and if you read that, you know how chock-full the disc is. Troma dropped us a line to let us know they have posted a brand new video filmed at Fangoria’s Weekend of Horrors featuring FX legend Tom Savini & Joe Spinell’s friend Sal [...]