Retro Slashers

Masks make the slasher. But sometimes what’s under the mask is so scary – or downright pitiful – no mask is needed. Joe Spinell in Maniac is a good example. Other times you wish they wore masks, like the bland killer with the bad haircut in Final Exam. Welcome to Unmasked Month at Retro Slashers. [...]

On September 13th, Camp Motion Pictures are releasing via their Camp Retro 80′s label “Big Box” VHS / DVD 5-Film Collection showcasing The Basement, a never-before-seen 1989 feature. That will be on both VHS and DVD while extra DVDs feature SOV titles Video Violence 1&2, Captives, and Cannibal Campout. List price is $34.95. The Basement [...]

Blu-Ray.com have posted cover art to the forthcoming undated Halloween 2 and Halloween 3: Season Of The Witch BDs. Presumably, it’s dummy art on show but I wouldn’t be surprised if these original artworks carry through as several companies learned from DVD that spending money prettying them up with Photoshop designs doesn’t make them any [...]

Streeting September 27 from Blue Underground is Lucio Fulci’s House by The Cemetery (1981), a unique blend of slasher and zombie flick. Check out the exhaustive laundry list of extras: “A Haunted House Story”: interviews with screenwriters Dardano Sacchetti and Elisa Briganti, “To Build a Better Death Trap”: interviews with cinematographer Sergio Salvati, makeup FX [...]

Oh shaw, there’s the theatrical Texas Chainsaw Massacre sequel on the way called Leatherface 3D, but did you know a direct sequel to Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 has been sitting on the shelf for a decade? All American Massacre was a short feature directed by William Hooper (yes, son of Tobe) and starring Bill Mosely [...]

Maniac Cop (1988) is the apex of slasher-hybrids, defining the fine-line criteria by flawlessly combining the slasher film and the action film while being comfortable sitting on the video store shelves of either.

Here’s the full trailer to the Retro Slashers-produced movie Terror at Black Tree Forest. A homage to the sackheady goodness of The Town That Dreaded Sundown and Friday The 13th Part 2, the flick was directed by Dustin Ferguson who is launching RHR Home Video – a new DVD label to distribute already-completed and upcoming [...]

Okay, this is more like it! Over the weekend, Fangoria premiered the trailer for upcoming documentary Slice and Dice: The Slasher Film Forever. In speaking with the doco’s co-director Calum Waddell, its angle is revealed: “So this is a totally different approach to the subject matter, with interviewees who are a little cultier than usual [...]

Code Red have released covers for three titles we previously exclusively broke news on: Mardi Gras Massacre, Haunted, and Night of The Demon. As well, they have four older releases going out as double packs – Scream/Barn of The Naked Dead and Love Me Deadly/Curious Case of The Campus Corpse. Barn, it should be noted, [...]

On September 27, Warner will release A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (Review) and A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors to Blu-ray in a 2-movie set, report Blu-ray.com. No real details available yet but if they’re mashing up two flicks into one pack – and possibly one disc, expect it [...]