Slasher Top Tens: Roger Braden
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Roger Braden runs the Facebook group Valley Nightmares, which is all about the history of the films that played at the drive-ins and theaters in his home state of Kentucky. Besides that, he loves metal as much as I do and brings kick ass moonshine to the drive-in, which gains my eternal friendship. […]
Hitcher In the Dark (1989)
I can hear you out there. You’re saying, I wish Umberto Lenzi made another movie in Florida right after Nightmare Beach. And I hope its a ripoff of The Hitcher but about a rich kid in an RV and that it’s so scummy that I feel like a Silkwood shower still wouldn’t make me feel clean. Good […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 23: Nightmare Beach (1989)
DAY 23. A DAY AT THE BEACH: Be sure to bring your trunks and your tanning butter. You can say that Umberto Lenzi’s films are trashy, sleazy paens to mayhem and gore. I won’t disagree with you. There’s Cannibal Ferox, a movie that tries to take that genre further and deeper than even I thought it […]
Maniac (1980)
William Lustig took the profits from 1977’s Hot Honey to make this guerilla shot piece of sleazy, slimy slasher brilliance. The other money came from half of star Joe Spinell’s salary from Nighthawks and British producer Judd Hamilton came up with the rest of the money (around $200,000) with one condition: his then-wife Caroline Munro would be […]
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