Retro Slashers

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For a late entry into the slasher genre, Night Visitor doesn’t do a bad job of twisting a little convention to create an entertaining, if mostly bloodless movie. Derek Rydall plays Billy, a spunky boy-who-cried-wolf type who likes to tell tall tales to just about anybody who will listen. This has made him the nemesis [...]

“Look what you did to me!” OK, that quote comes late into the film, but it’s a doozy. Phantom of the Mall should have been one of those movies that aren’t as entertaining as they ends up being. But this tale of love and revenge is pretty fun, not to mention it captures that little [...]

Rush Week is like so many slasher films that came out in the late 80s. The formula had already been robbed of any originality and the films’ budgets were growing smaller by the second. Still, some of those films, such as Hide and Go Shriek and Rush Week were fun time wasters. Sure, Rush Week [...]

Watching Moon Stalker is like beating your head against a wall. You feel dizzy and think “Why did I just do that” when it’s finally over. Bernie, a crazy mountain man, kills campers with an ax. He’s a little slow and often mistakes campers for firewood. And Bernie loves chopping firewood. Michael O’Rourke, the writer/director [...]

For nearly two decades Intruder was a movie that seemed more talked about than seen and it became sort of a Holy Grail for genre buffs. After a small distribution in the late 80s, Intruder disappeared as mysteriously as it had appeared a short time earlier. A good portion of the people involved, who were [...]

A little girl playing in a swamp accidentally kills a couple of lovers looking for a place to party. 18 years later, school bully Dickens (Christopher Stryker) seeks revenge on science teacher Brooke (Maureen Mooney) after she humiliates him in front of the class. With the aid of the rotund Smiler (Jason Brill), good time [...]