Retro Slashers

A Lost Slasher no more! Code Red are bringing the late Joe Spinelli’s psycho-slasher The Undertaker to DVD in October. Our own Thomas Ellison investigated the film and also recently reviewed it. And now you’ll get to see it to. Taking things one step further, Code Red are offering fans to vote which cover it [...]

Here is the artwork for The Psycho Legacy 2-Disc DVD, arriving October 19th from Shout Factory.
For the whole story on this highly anticipated doco (come on, we all know Psycho is the granddaddy of the slasher film), you’ll want to check out our Interview with Robert Galluzzo, conducted last year when the director was still [...]

Press Release:
Cult Collectibles is proud to announce the release of its first “Weird Wobbler” bobblehead style figure from one of the most outrageous underground films ever made: BLACK DEVIL DOLL! Pre-orders are available now with product shipping in September 2010!
The 2008 film is the story of an executed Black militant who is reincarnated into [...]

Joe Giannone’s Madman (shot in 1980, released 1982) has experienced a resurgence with slasher fans in recent years similar to the Sleepaway Camp movement. Yet this has all been contrary to the increasing rarity of the film since Anchor Bay’s DVD went out of print.
But that’s about to be remedied as Code Red DVD prepare [...]

While Code Red DVD have released some mouth-watering rarities, their status as the Criterion Of Horror is constantly kneecapped by their seeming reluctance to engage customers about the status of several long-delayed titles.
But nonetheless, the excellent long-running website Horror DVDs has often played public confidant to the company in the past, and today brings positive [...]

On August 10 Code Red DVD releases the 35th Anniversary Edition of Horror High (1974 – do the math on that one). No relation to Return To Horror High (1987), though close together VHS release dates of both films in some countries implied as such, Larry Stouffer’s movie is actually a reliable stock proto-slasher.

Here’s the original script for Bill Lustig’s MANIAC COP, titled simply “Cordell” by master screenwriter Larry Cohen.
Cordell (aka Maniac Cop) (3.16meg) July 7th 1987 Draft by Larry Cohen – PDF format
Innocent people are being brutally murdered on the streets of New York by a uniformed police officer. As the death toll rises and City [...]

Check this out, cats! The Dustin Ferguson-directed trailer so good, it WON’T be appearing on the doco Sleepless Nights: Revisiting the Slumber Party Massacres from the forthcoming SPM Special Edition DVDs from Shout Factory.

Check out our new “sister” website for coverage of the now-retro SCREAM series – scream-trilogy.net