Retro Slashers

Here’s the teaser to Terror At Black Tree Forest, a movie I have the producer credit on. Dustin Ferguson wrote and directed it. He edited Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor for me, so this ended up sort of a fun trade-off. Dustin crafted a really tight indie throwback to The Forest and Don’t Go In [...]

As per usual, critical information on the Code Red company and release schedule are nowhere to be found on their official blog, instead buried in a multi-year flame war over at Horror DVDs.
“I am ending the company in summer 2011.” stated President Bill Norton while battling detractors.

We received a special features list from Shawn Lewis regarding the long awaited debut of the err, inspiring curio behind Black Devil Doll – Chester Turner’s Black Devil Doll From Hell which he announced to be coming out on October 26.
-Collector’s edition Lenticular 3D Cover for the first 1000 sold
-Audio commentary by Art (Ultra Violent [...]

This video from Mark @ Cult Collectibles covers the history and making of the Black Devil Doll bobblehead coming out next month.
It’s a pretty thorough and funny watch/listen – not at all the dry promo pieces many companies offer up.

Admirers of Pieces (1982) know you don’t have to go to Texas for a chainsaw massacre. But did you know a continuation of a certain gory campus massacre was once on tap?
Original director Juan Piquer Simón announced in 1991 that “there will be a continuation of Pieces entitled Two Pieces. This one will be much [...]

Did this come out of nowhere or not? Troma have a sequel/appendage to Mother’s Day on the way, and the trailer is here.
Although it’s as mind-blowingly offensive as you’ve come to expect from the company, the movie was produced by a team of Canadians called Astron-6 who look to have a genuine video nostalgia on [...]

Unfortunately the message board we debuted a week or so ago has been trouble for me since day one. It was devised as a solution to the 300-500 spambots per day (updated: now 2000 per day) that hit our comments (even if 99% are stopped from being visible in public, they still hit the server). [...]

Our new Retro Slasher Forums are now open…
retroslashers.net/board

The most requested feature is finally finished, the Reviews Index – linking every review on our website, past and present. There’s a link at the top above the banner for easy access.
Now that that job is out of the way, a Retro Slashers forum will be along in the next few days as a remedy [...]

In 1983, Hikmet Avedis & wife Marlene Schmidt wrote & produced Mortuary, which Hikmet directed. A year later they were back in the same capacity with They’re Playing With Fire. Taking the plot of their 1974 movie The Teacher, and Eric Brown – the star of the popular Private Lessons (1981), it starts [...]