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Looking at the flicks that paved the way for Halloween and the heyday of slasher movies.
“Blood Feast is like a Walt Whitman poem – it’s no good, but it’s the first of its type”.
- Blood Feast director Hershell Gordon Lewis
Blood Feast is a joy. The world’s first splatter film delivers the goods and manages to [...]
Platinum Dunes and Paramount are working on a remake of The Monster Squad. Rob Cohen, one of the producers of the original, is set to direct for Michael Bay and company. No word yet on who is handling the script or who might be in the cast. Legend has it Liam Neeson was the original choice to play [...]
Note:I originally wrote this review several years ago and it’s gone from site to site. As the years have passed, I’ve come to find this little ditty has grown on me, so there have been some edits. This might not be Corey Haim’s shining moment, but it’s not a bad little slasher either. RIP Corey. You were [...]
Cheryl (Ayn Ruymen), on the run after stealing her roomate’s cash, hides out at the King Edward Hotel run by her creepy Aunt Martha (Lucille Benson). Other tenants include a kinky priest (Laurie Main) and George (John Ventantonio), a sinister photographer with a nasty addiction to blow-up dolls. At night Cheryl hears mysterious noises coming [...]
Back in the early 80s Fangoria held a Maniac Match-up contest. Contestants were asked to create a comic strip featuring a duel to the death between The Shape, Jason, and Leatherface. John Arnold and Linwood Sasser’s winning entry, 1st Fangoria Splatterbowl, was published in Fangoria #39.
Here are two kills you won’t see in the vhs version of Killer Party. Maybe one day slasher fans will finally get to see this underrated slasher gem in uncut form. But for now enjoy these pics and imagine what might have been if the gore scenes had been left intact.
With Valentine’s Day rapidly approaching I thought it would be a good time to reflect on the career of Keith Knight who portrayed Hollis in My Bloody Valentine. Born in Ontario, Canada in 1956, Keith Knight spent his early acting career on the stage. In 1979 Knight landed his first film role as Fink the hot [...]
This week on Deadpit Radio, the legendary Paul Ehlers (Madman Marz himself) made a special announcement about an upcoming DVD re-release of the seminal 1982 slasher flick Madman. The bombastic axe-wielder told the Deadpit crew: “I found out from Gary Sales who was the owner and original producer of Madman that he had struck a [...]
A kid in the 70’s, I grew up like a Monster Kid was supposed to. I began with the Universal horror classics like Dracula, Frankenstein and The Mummy, and then graduated to Hammer Horror, Godzilla movies, etc. Support was provided by The Monster Times, Famous Monsters and all the Warren horror magazines, as [...]
Here we go again, another gem that’s been lambasted by critics armchair and professional alike: BCI Eclipse have dug up Robert Hammer’s 1980 sleaze-o-rama Don’t Answer The Phone and given it an uncut release. I do like my slashers but serial killers employing strangulation instead of the good ol’ butcher’s knife struck me as too [...]