Retro Slashers

Dear Yanks, can’t say I know anything about Memorial Day, because all I learned about holidays I learned from retro slasher flicks. So today is dedicated to retro slasher MEMORIAL VALLEY MASSACRE (1988). This could have ridden the holiday slasher wave if it hadn’t come so late in the 80’s, but oh well!

One’s appreciation of the VHS format and to a lesser extent, slashers – is truly tested when you have to physically carry one third your body weight in them across state lines. Let me lay this shit right out – I dig DVD. I dig what it’s done for bringing retro slashers into the impressionable [...]

I’ve been on a super Giallo kick lately, inspired by Christian’s fantastico retrospective series Spaghetti Slashers. Hitting up films to collect, each more deliriously titled then the last, I hit the logical conclusion when I stumbled on this old fave site, where one click of your mouse creates a fake Giallo title and synopsis. Here’s [...]

It goes without saying that every movie has a story (hey, I just mentioned it anyway! I’m a rebel that way). And almost every horror movie featuring a deranged murderer has a backstory (or should). With a few exceptions (the original Michael Myers just was and that was scary!), the killer is often motivated by [...]

Artist Jeff Zornow is the best asset retro horror has right now, having illustrated HALLOWEEN: THE FIRST DEATH OF LAURIE STRODE in comics and numerous T-Shirt designs based on obscure and Italian genre flicks alike.

Click on the above image to visit our MySpace page to view a selection of tasty slasher trailers from the eighties. Among this grizzly selection you’ll see Nightmare in a Damaged Brain, Slaughter High, Final Exam, The Boogeyman, Don’t Answer the Phone and many more…

Percy Rodrigues was THE voice for slasher and horror movie trailers in the 70’s and 80’s. His work includes the trailers for Popcorn, Madman, The Dark, Deadly Blessing, Return of the Living Dead, the Jaws series, and many others. His deep, rich voice and dramatic pauses could make the dullest horror movie sound [...]

April 23 Update #2 – Back in Black, Baby!

April 23 Update – Mostly back to normal but missing some vital graphics and sidebar features. Working on it!
We’ve had some technical issues that have caused articles to disappear from view, so have switched to an older design until things can be fixed.

Just a quick note that the main RetroSlashers.net site is down, and will be for the next week or two. Over the past year, this blog which was intended as A) a place to make easy updates and get material online faster and B) a place for discussion has grown too big for its britches, [...]

RETRO TRASH
A refuge for the ’80’s!

Welcome to Retro Trash, a dumping ground of all things ’80’s, from movies and music to television and fashion.  Here, fans of everything from prosthetics to spandex can find gems from the decade that taste (and subtlety) forgot!

A rumor was posted on HorrorDVDs.com regarding the version of HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME is airing this month in the States on FearNet/Comcast in both standard-definition and HD.
The tantalizing tidbit however is that it contains the original, real soundtrack to the film instead of the alternative score pressed onto the Columbia DVDs. I haven’t been [...]

Last year John Klyza, Amanda by Night, and myself were approached by a television network in desperate need of ghost writers. The writer strike was on and the network that shall remain nameless needed some slasher experts to jazz up some scripts for an upcoming series. In exchange for our cooperation, the network [...]

Time for us to delve deeper into the mysterious world of mysterious slasher mysteries, with two classic cases from the Vaults of the Unknown. Last time, readers were kind enough to share their opinions and extra information concerning the conundrums featured, and I encourage you to do so again if you think you know something [...]

I’ve been wanting to do a little tribute to The Prey, one of the more underrated slashers, but as you may have noticed (or not!), I’m only on RS sporadically (something I truly regret), which means Prey week is looking like it might not happen. So instead, I thought I’d do my posts in piecemeal.
Today, [...]

Life is full of tantalizing mysteries… How did they build the Pyramids? What are UFOs? Is there an afterlife? And how did Lipstick Jungle get a second season? Okay, some of those are perhaps not quite so tantalizing, but I’m ignoring them all anyway in order to concentrate on some of horror history’s most intriguing [...]