Retro Slashers

Scorpion Releasing unleash the er, silence on November 24!
Young co-ed Scotty (Rebecca Balding – The Boogens) is unable to find housing on the campus. She finds a vacancy at the Engels’ mansion, now a boarding house for college students. Mrs. Engels (Yvonne De Carlo, TV’s The Munsters) and her son seem nice enough, but it [...]

Arriving on Nov 17 from Lionsgate comes this remake of TERROR TRAIN that ended up HOSTEL by way of locomotive (!). Touring Eastern Europe with her college wrestling team, Alex (Thora Birch) attends a debauched late-night party that causes Alex and several teammates to miss their train to Odessa. Her coach is furious, but a [...]

Some time back I mentioned some “real world projects” I’ve been up to, and while this one might not be news to readers of the Sleepaway Camp website where I posted this 5 months ago, it might be unknown to some Retro Slashers readers.
I can’t say more right now, but for those interested, there will [...]

Press Release: A 3-Disc audio and video exploitation extravaganza featuring over 7 Hours of the most rare and unusual exploitation trailers, TV ads and radio spots from the age of GRINDHOUSE CINEMA! Plus original new content inspired by the amazing fictional b-movie world of Stephen Romano’s exploitation novel, SHOCK FESTIVAL!

The story behind me getting the part as an extra in NOTD is when I was scouring the internet for information on the movie. Initially, I had mixed feelings that one of my favorite movies of all time was being remade, but I was still definitely interested. Then, I heard it was going [...]

According to IMDB there were 3 sets of writers on this, John Saxton, Peter Jobin & Timothy Bond, and un uncredited John Beaird. This script, which popped up on Megaupload, is a direct scan of the screenplay which perhaps tellingly has no credited writer on the cover sheet. What you’ll get a kick out of, [...]

Hitting tomorrow on October 27th from Mya/Ryko is an old one you might not be familiar with – EVIL FACE (1974) starring the eternally disturbing Klaus Kinski.
Baron Ivan Rassimov, a brilliant doctor, died horribly during a fire burst in his laboratory. Since that day, his daughter Tanja (Katia Christine) retired to a life of reclusion, [...]

On October 27, Jonathan Lewis’ BLACK DEVIL DOLL is finally released! See what all the fuss is about.
Five beautiful young women… one evil, murderous puppet.

Heather thought that a Ouija board was nothing but an innocent child’s game. Little did she know, this child’s game would open a flaming door to hell and re-animate the [...]

PROM NIGHT (1980) – Track #2 – Paul Zaza & Carl Zittrer

It all starts with the screenplay. Whether you liked the HALLOWEEN redux or not, it’s worth taking a look at the original script to see how the project developed from paper to screen.
Halloween – Early draft script by Rob Zombie – PDF format
After being committed for 17 years, Michael Myers, now a grown man and [...]