Retro Slashers

Slasher fans rushing to Wal-Mart in search of Happy Birthday to Me should keep their eyes open for the $5 Gore House Greats Collection.  Most of the 12 films in the collection rank somewhere between bloody awful and drive-in trash, but there are two little gems that should interest slasher addicts.
Terrified is a proto-slasher from 1963.  [...]

For those interested, the remake of THE STEPFATHER (1987) releases to theaters October 16th. Be sure to share your thoughts on the film, surely handicapped without Terry O’Quinn.
David Harris (Dylan Walsh), very much a “family values” man who mysteriously comes into the lives of single mothers with children and becomes the dream man they always [...]

Streeting October 13th comes the new HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME DVD from Anchor Bay, featuring the original theatrical score that was previously replaced for the Sony edition a few years back, plus restoring original cover elements.

Have Code Red rebranded themselves Scorpion Releasing? Or is it an offshoot from an existing or former employee? Who knows? Who cares? What is important though, we might finally actually be getting SILENT SCREAM on DVD in the near future.

Back on September 5th I warned Halloween fans not to get their hopes up at the prospect of seeing Halloween 3D in the near future no matter what the Weinsteins’ promised. My suspicions were confirmed tonight when TWC pulled the plug on pre-production for the next entry in the revamped series. The studio [...]

A friend of mine passed along this distrubing article regarding Mr. Mikels. The tough economy has hit us hard and Mikels, one of the great indie mavericks of our time, recently had to give up his studio near the Las Vegas Strip (which I had the pleasure of visiting a few years ago) and is [...]

The layoffs have started at The WeinsteinCompany just one week after Rob Zombie’s Halloween II finished a disappointing third at the box-office. TWC, once a major player in Hollywood, had pinned its survival on the box-office performance of Halloween II. The films pulled from release so TWC could safe enough money to promote [...]

Check out this hilarious clip, and for all the snark it musters, remember it’s actually from Rob Zombie’s own HAUNTED WORLD OF EL SUPERBEASTO. Is Rob poking fun at himself, or revealing his true feelings about Michael Myers?

Yes, I’m glad they’re going in a different direction. No, we won’t be covering this movie on any regular basis. Yes, I love answering my own questions.

Right this moment a major debate is taking place in the United States. Will you see Halloween II or The Final Destination this weekend? I say to hell with the debate, go see both films. Here’s how the Retro Slashers Trifecta weekend works. Go see Halloween II and The Final Destination. [...]

More slasher and proto-slasher discs are on their way.

October 13: The Stepfather
This terrific 1987 slasher has been M.I.A. on DVD for far too long. Lost’s Terry O’Quinn stars as a family man who, when disappointed by his family, simply kills them, changes his identity, and moves on to a new family until they, inevitably, [...]

Enjoy this post, because it’s the last non-directly-slasher-related one you’ll be seeing in a loooong time due to a major refocusing of the site’s content. But I wanted to pimp this video shot on the set of SLIME CITY MASSACRE because 1. Greg Lamberson’s SLIME CITY (1988) was quintessential 80’s sleaze, sort of a companion [...]

While I await a reply from Code Red to my request for a review screener of NIGHT OF THE DRIBBLER, Retro Slashers visitor ‘Mark’ posted the tip that the long lost 1995 slasher is now up for pre-order on Amazon complete with synopsis!

Read at your own risk, I provide this report from a test screening monkey with no confirmation or disclaimer, for the expressed purpose that you can waltz into the theatre with plausible deniability if you don’t like the sound of it.

To hell with the ones sites have been posting from the Comic-Con event, here’s the real thing. Finally we’re starting to see some progress with the publicity for A Nightmare on Elm Street, due out next April and making a presence at this year’s high profile event.