Retro Slashers

From the drunken lothario that brings you Horror Yearbook comes a news website dedicated to the upcoming A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (2010). If you’re after all the latest on the Platinum Dunes reboot which stars Jackie Earle Haley (WATCHMEN) as Freddy Krueger, this is your first and last stop.
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Rob Zombie’s HALLOWEEN 2 has finished shooting, so now decent materials should start pouring in. Throughout filming, Zombie seemed to spend his internet time building some sort of alternate in-film universe for the fictional music and TV acts featured in the flick.
So here are the only 3 pics that jumped out at me since filming [...]

Whereas the gore in slasher flix usually amused me, the gore in COMBAT SHOCK (1986) repelled me. In a good way. Example – picture the self-surgery scene in THE TERMINATOR minus the robotic parts. It wasn’t just the gore department that I got more than I bargained for – the film oozed dingy dread [...]

The official site for SORORITY ROW (2009) recently opened at the well-named thetapi-ordie.com – not much there right now but I did catch this clear look of the new birdcane! Although it isn’t as prominent weapon as in the original (who wants a straight repeat anyway, certainly not I), it fills me with warmth inside [...]

Took me a while to digest the trailer for SORORITY ROW (2009). While HOUSE ON SORORITY ROW (1983) is my favorite retro slasher, this redux is one of the increasing number of “requels” – remakes that feel more like sequels. At the very least I’ll be watching to play catch-out on a number of confirmed [...]

I don’t know what the hell has happened to Fangoria.com lately but I do still trust the word of longtime scribe for the mag, Michael Gingold. Being a super-duper SLAUGHTER HIGH fan it was less his comments about the quality of the film that reached me, but those about the quality of the DVD.
Video transfer? [...]

A rumor was posted on HorrorDVDs.com regarding the version of HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME is airing this month in the States on FearNet/Comcast in both standard-definition and HD.
The tantalizing tidbit however is that it contains the original, real soundtrack to the film instead of the alternative score pressed onto the Columbia DVDs. I haven’t been [...]

“They got Alfalfa!” The good lads at Deadpit Radio dropped us a line to let us know while recording their April 3rd edition with DVD producing mogul Michael ‘Slipcase’ Felsher from Red Shirt Pictures. They learned that this Halloween is going to be creepier than ever with Fred Dekker’s Night of the Creeps at least [...]

We here at Retro Slashers are big fans of ol’ pockmark-face Joe Spinell’s thematic acting follow-up to Bill Lustig’s MANIAC, and are excited about its forthcoming S.E. DVD release via the bastions of the bad, Troma Entertainment.
The uncut status and special features sound mouth watering – it even contains the “lost” remnants of the MANIAC [...]

Rue Morgue’s Best Fiction Book of 2008, SHOCK FESTIVAL, is getting a DVD adaptation (of sorts). Fangoria recently posted an insightful Interview With Author Stephen Romano which outlines plans for the disc.