Hell High (1989)
I had no expectations of what this movie would be like when I discovered it on YouTube. I figured that it would be about a high school class menaced by some sort of slasher villain, but I had no way to prepare for the gritty and just plain weird film that I would be confronted […]
Madhouse (1974)
While Amicus is mainly known for their anthology films, they also presented singular stories. Director Jim Clark may have also made the films Every Home Should Have One and Rentadick, but he’s better known as an editor. You’ll definitely recognize the films he edited — Midnight Cowboy, The Killing Fields, The World Is Not Enough and Marathon Man to name […]
Slasher top tens: Gregg Harrington
Gregg Harrington is a journalist, musician and podcaster. He co-hosts the 80s horror podcast Neon Brainiacs with filmmaker Ben Dietels, and sometimes performs in the bands Rabid Pigs and Pummeled. You can also find Neon Brainiacs on Twitter. 10. The Stepfather (1987): Having only seen this movie for the first time a couple years ago when covering […]
Midnight (1982)
Midnight is the movie Rob Zombie keeps trying to make. It’s seriously demented and filled with so many truly unlikeable characters. Most of them make you want to take a shower just watching them. Written and directed by John Russo, one of the creators of Night of the Living Dead, Midnight was shot on location outside Pittsburgh, […]
Bloody New Year (1987)
Also known as Time Warp Terror, this movie was inspired by 1950’s horror films. On this island where the kids get trapped, it’s always 1959. It also has the band Cry No More all over it, lending it the perfect bit of 1980’s cheese that you may be looking for. Imagine The Beyond, but for kids. That’s […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 30: Don’t Panic (1988)
DAY 30. IT’S YOUR SPECIAL DAY: Brutal birthdays. It appears like director and screenwriter Ruben Galindo Jr. wanted to make his own version of A Nightmare On Elm Street but somewhere along the way he decided to he’d like to make a Mexican version of an American teen sitcom, too. Honestly, if you told me Ruben […]
Phantom of Death (1988)
Ruggero Deodato, how I love you. I love that you somehow convinced a real actor, Michael York, to be in an insane film about a man getting progeria way past its due date and murdering people left and right. I can get how you got Donald Pleasence. I can even sort of understand how you […]
Slasher Top Tens: Becca Panico
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Becca is the B in B&S About Movies and the love of my life. How many women do you think will put up with endless discussions of obscure 1970’s giallo and the emotional mood swings of a writer? Plus, she also has tattoos of the Anti-God from Prince of Darkness and Dr. Phibes! […]
The Burning (1981)
Back in the days of VHS rental, The Burning was my holy grail. That’s because its effects were featured in Tom Savini’s book Grande Illusions, his how-to guide to creating the gore he’d so expertly brought to the screen. Like any good little gorehound, I had an autographed, dog-earned, karo-syrup sticky copy (I still have it, barely […]
April Fools Day (1986)
Fred Walton has directed some pretty decent thrillers, including When a Stranger Calls, The Rosary Murders, the remake of I Saw What You Did, When a Stranger Calls Back and The Stepford Husbands. He’s a great hand for this, a late in the game slasher that is much closer to an Agatha Christie novel than […]
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