Retro Slashers

It seems every day there’s news on a new horror film, remake or sequel that’s happening. Good to hear when something’s not happening though. Like MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3D, which we told you back in February had ideas swirling between writer/buck-naked star Todd Farmer and director Patrick Lussier.
Quick update from Fangoria’s Weekend of Horrors… Director [...]

The thing about reduxing THE EYES OF LAURA MARS is, in the interim since, the concept of a female that has psychic visions of a serial killer taking out his prey has been done to, pardon, death throughout 90’s made-for-cable thrillers, so this would need a new twist to bring something fresh to the original [...]

Rob Zombie has engineered a hell of a lot of security to keep HALLOWEEN 2’s new mask secret all through filming – a top feat, in this internet age. Now the time has come to reveal all – while we recently showed you the subtlety altered bloodied-up mask he wears at the continuation of the [...]

If you’re an avid reader of Stefan Hutchinson’s HALLOWEEN comics for Devil’s Due based on the classic series continuity, you’re surely as forlorn as I over the long-ass delay for HALLOWEEN: THE FIRST DEATH OF LAURIE STRODE #3 and continued slate of mini-series like HALLOWEEN: THE MARK OF THORN.
While there has been no official announcement [...]

Streeting April 28 from Media Blaster’s genre arm Shriek Show comes Gorman Bechard’s PSYCHOS IN LOVE (1987) one of the most charming retro slashers to date – a slash-rom-com, and with a killer theme song to boot. What a pants tingler to see the original Wizard Video artwork is being used!
Joe (Carmine Capobianco) was a [...]

In a win for retro slashers everywhere, SLAUGHTER HIGH (1986) is the #1 selling title at DVD Empire currently, out of all possible DVDs to buy. One of Lionsgate’s other releases this week, MY BEST FRIEND IS A VAMPIRE, is #2, proving everyone indeed loves the 80’s. With #3 being THE DAY THE EARTH [...]

Code Red are back with a few new releases. TRAPPED and TERROR CIRCUS are not slashers per se but have tangible relations to the subgenre – TRAPPED being a revenge film and TERROR CIRCUS cut from PSYCHO cloth.
For June 21st, we have the Canadian backwoods thriller TRAPPED, directed by cult director William Fruet (DEATH WEEKEND, [...]

Say what you will about GRINDHOUSE (2007), but Eli Roth’s faux-trailer for THANKSGIVING was inspired lunacy, achieving a sense of genuine loyalty and homage to the golden age of the slasher film in its 2 and a half minutes that entire films in the past few years have not (won’t mention titles). It’s always been [...]

Who’s with me on this – WRONG TURN (2003) is the modern-day descendant of Jeff Lieberman’s JUST BEFORE DAWN (1981)? I haven’t had the courage to venture into the recent sequel yet as its Reality-TV struck me as totally non-retro and so-played (but I trust you guys – what did you think of it? Should [...]

Just a quick note that the main RetroSlashers.net site is down, and will be for the next week or two. Over the past year, this blog which was intended as A) a place to make easy updates and get material online faster and B) a place for discussion has grown too big for its britches, [...]