Retro Slashers

Artist Jeff Zornow is the best asset retro horror has right now, having illustrated HALLOWEEN: THE FIRST DEATH OF LAURIE STRODE in comics and numerous T-Shirt designs based on obscure and Italian genre flicks alike.

On July 28, Blue Underground (what have those guys been up to, by the way?) re-release Sergio Martino’s Giallo TORSO to DVD.
A series of sex murders shock a college campus, and four beautiful young girlfriends head for the safety of an isolated country villa. But as they succumb to their own erotic desires, their weekend [...]

Like a broken record, every new film from Italian Maestro Dario Argento is unrealistically built up by his fans and then torn down when the movie materializes. Let’s face it cats, no film from the guy, not THE THIRD MOTHER and certainly not his upcoming GIALLO starring Adrian Brody, will be the Second Coming Of [...]

In this MTV article, the chicks from SORORITY ROW (2009) talk about the gris/gore quotent as being higher then that of the original. That may be true for many of the deaths which were pulled off with a mix of blood and suspense, but I can’t really see anything topping The Head In The Toilet, [...]

Fangoria’s ace writer Michael Gingold spoke to Don May Jr. of Synapse Films:
“We’re releasing STEPFATHER 2 on September 29 to tie in with the remake of the original scheduled for October,” May tells us, “so we’re putting that one on the fast track. We’re big fans of the movie, and we jumped at the chance [...]

There was recently a rumor floating around that Full Moon’s Charles Band wanted to remake his original PUPPET MASTER (1989), but with no quote or source attributed it would have been a thin story to go on. But now we have verbal confirmation from the man himself, that it’s at least a valid project in [...]

Our screenshots of both Standard and Hobo Deluxe versions of Mad Mike from the H2 Trailer for your perusal and dissection. Click for full size.

Coming to DVD June 30 from Shriek Show, Byron Quisenberry’s SCREAM (1981 – AKA THE OUTING).
No one ever returns from this phantom town of TERROR! A group of friends on a rafting trip down a river stop in at an old ghost town to spend the night. Soon their rafts disappear, and then they begin [...]

I love CHILDREN OF THE CORN (1984) to death, but if only the technological marvels of Blu-Ray would allow an audio option to remove the grating childrens narration…
In 1984, a film adaptation of a chilling short story by horror master Stephen King terrified audiences and launched a film franchise that continues to this very day. [...]