2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 25: Candyman (1992)
DAY 25. VANISHING CITIES: One with gentrification or real estate development as the setting. I was just discussing slasher movies and their lack of blackness with one of my friends last week and we struggled to come up with many movies where there was a black killer. Sure, there’s Snoop Dogg’s turn in Bones, which is […]
Wake Up Heavy starts new slasher series
Wake Up Heavy — which has featured Sam on the show before and contributed this top ten slasher list to our site — has started a new series called “Why I Hate Slashers” that everyone who loves this site will enjoy. The first episode is all about Pieces, which as you probably know is a major […]
Strange Behavior (1981)
Also known by its much more in your face title Dead Kids, Strange Behavior holds a place in New Zealand film history as the first horror movie made in the country. A homage to American horror films of the 1950s, it was intended to be part of a trilogy. However, after this movie and Strange Invaders underperformed at the […]
Slasher Top Tens: Derek Direction
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: In my other life as a professional wrestler, I’ve been lucky to team with Derek Direction over the last year as The Grindhouse — along with Meg Meyers, Christian Noir and Beastman. Derek and I got along right away as we have a shared love of movies and a similar outlook on wrestling. […]
Hide and Go Shriek (1988)
The poster for this says it all: In the tradition of Friday the 13th and Halloween… Notice: It doesn’t say from the makers of. Or from the people who brought you. Also known as Close Your Eyes and Pray in the U.K., this movie is all about a bunch of teens having a graduation party in a […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge: Day 24: Pink Plastic Flamingos (2017) and Project Skyborn (2014)
Day 24 Short Attention Span Theatre: Watch some shorts or anthology things This 24th day of Scarecrow Video of Seattle’s Psychotronic October Scarecrow Challenge of 31 movies in 31 days is tailor made for the binge-watchable sci-fi films at DUST (make your own anthology film!). Their portal features science fiction shorts from emerging filmmakers obsessed […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge: Day 24: Ugetsu (1953) and Kwaidan (1964)
Day 24 Short Attention Span Theatre: Watch some shorts or anthology things (two-fers allowed) My Dr. Jekyll promised that my celluloid Mr. Hyde would not spree a master thesis portmanteau for this Scarecrow Challenge with an embarrassing display of my obsessions for the British anthology oeuvre of Milton Subtosky and Freddie Francis. And my nostalgia […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge: Day 24: From A Whisper To a Scream (1987)
DAY 24: Short Attention Span Theater: Watch some shorts or anthology things. Jeff Burr and fellow director Kevin Meyer dropped out of USC to finish their American civil war drama Divided We Fall. Bur would follow that up with this film, which somehow got Vincent Price on board. So how’d that happen? Burr would tell […]
Ghostkeeper (1981)
Filmed in Banff, Alberta and using the Canadian tax shelter rules that have produced so many of our favorite films, Ghostkeeper rises above its unstable finances and near-unseen theatrical run to become a fun piece of somewhat forgotten slasher fun. This one is all about the Wendigo, even if it spells the monster’s name Windigo. It’s […]
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. […]
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