2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 29: Pandemonium (1982)
DAY 29. COMEDY OF TERRORS: A matter of laughter at the splatter of the matter. A funny one, duh. There was a time, let’s call it 1983, where we couldn’t just sit down and instantly find any single movie from anywhere in the world and any point in time. You might think that that would […]
Evil Laugh (1986)
At the tail end of the slasher boom, hell, maybe even a few years past its expiration date, Steven Baio — yes, the brother of Scott, co-produced and starred in Evil Laugh. We all have dreams. Dreams that Scott Aaron Stine, in The Gorehound’s Guide to Splatter Films of the 1980’s, would crush by saying that […]
Slasher top tens: Robert Freese
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Robert Freese has been a staff writer for Videoscope Magazine since 1998. He also contributes to Drive-in Asylum. Slasher movies are some of his favorite movies. In fact, slasher movies are most of his favorite films. He probably enjoys slasher movies more than anyone should. Whittling down the mountain of slasher films […]
Spine (1986)
When the wee pups of the video fringe first watched Spine during its initial release 33 years ago, it was, as was the case with most of the Big Box VHS/SOV horror flicks of the ‘80s, acquired via mail order from an ad in the back of a monster or underground film magazine. Just one […]
Pledge Night (1990)
If you didn’t get enough of hazing gone wrong in Slaughter High, good news. Way back in the 1960s, Sidney Scheider was one of the pledges who got hazed, having to bathe in cornflakes, coffee and vinegar, but someone replaced the water with pure acid — which of course didn’t eat the pipes or tub — […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 28: The Case of the Hillside Stranglers (1989)
DAY 28. A LORELESS YARN: One based on a true story. Based on Two of a Kind: The Hillside Stranglers by Darcy O’Brien, this was the first Hillside Strangler movie to ever be made. It stars Dennis Fraina, acting against type as Angelo Buono and Billy Zane in an ill-looking hairstyle that one suspects is […]
Massacre at Central High (1976)
23 years before Columbine, Massacre at Central High would predict not just violent school shootings but the rise of disaffected teenagers. It was directed by Rene Daalder, a Dutch writer and director who would go on to pioneer motion picture technology and virtual reality. David is the new kid at Central High, but he already knows […]
The Silent Scream (1980)
Rebecca Balding seems like someone who could have been a scream queen, between appearances in this movie, the made for TV movie Deadly Game and The Boogens. That said — this movie ended up changing between it being shot and shown in theaters. Diane McBain (Wicked Wicked) was originally cast as a police detective but the first […]
Slasher Top Tens: Donald Guarisco From Schlockmania
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald maintains the site Schlockmania and has contributed to Drive-In Asylum, Cinema Sewer, DVD Delirium 2 and All Movie Guide. You can also find him on Twitter and Facebook. He considers the slasher film to be the comfort food of horror cinema and had a hard time paring his favorites list down to ten, […]
Song of the Succubus and Rock-a-Die Baby (1975)
Prior to the advent of cable television and direct-to-video movies, there were the TV Movies of the ‘70s and ‘80s produced by the “Big Three” television networks: ABC, CBS, and NBC. And we love those TV Movies. In fact, B&S Movies loves those TV movies so much that we rolled out our “Week of Made […]
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