SLASHER MONTH: Hard Rock Nightmare (1988)
Dominick Brascia was Joey in Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, as well as writing and directing Evil Laugh and this film. He moved into radio and sadly died in 2018. But hey — he did three slashers, counting this one, so let’s take a look. When John was a little kid, his grandfather would constantly tell […]
SLASHER MONTH: Home Sweet Home (1981)
Also known as Slasher In the House, this is one of the few Thanksgiving slashers that I can think of — that said, I can tell you others are Deadly Friend, Blood Freak, ThanksKilling, ThanksKilling 3, Blood Rage, the remake of The Boogeyman, Kristy and Intensity — and it’s also a section 3 video nasty, so it has that going for […]
SLASHER MONTH: Never Hike in the Snow (2020)
Every year that we go without another appearance by Jason Vorhees is another that makes me sadder at the loss. Sure, we got a great box set by Shout! Factory this year, but the lawsuit has kept a new film from hitting theaters. Luckily, there are some really innovative fans, like writer/director Vincente DiSanti and […]
SLASHER MONTH: Watch Me Die (2014)
Spoiler warning: I hate found footage movies. I see them as flimsy excuses to either put handcuffs on a production or a cheap way to cut costs. It rarely, if ever, works for me and I’m often bored within minutes. Why shoehorn yourself into one way to tell the story when cinema offers so many […]
Redwood Massacre: Annihilation (2020)
The sequel to 2014’s The Redwood Massacre finds writer/director David Ryan Keith (Ghosts of Darkness, The Dark Within) returning to the titular Redwood Farm, a place where the owner went insane before killing his family and himself. Now, a stranger has brought together several family members to prove whether or not the burlap-masked killer was real or […]
2020 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 28: The Hitcher (1986)
DAY 28. OREGON TRAIL: A road tripper where people get picked off one by one. Kind of like this challenge, eh? When I first saw The Hitcher, I was probably 14 years old and saw it as a straight-ahead story of violence on the highway. I probably cheered at the end when Jim Halsey (C. Thomas […]
SLASHER MONTH: Destroyer (1988)
If you saw Shocker, Prison and House 3/The Horror Show, yet wanted more movies where killers supernaturally survived the electric chair, let me introduce you to 1988’s Destroyer, which is also a slasher with one of the genre’s pioneers, Anthony Curtis, in a supporting role. Ivan Mozer (Lyle Alzado!) has been convicted of the rape, torture and murder of […]
SLASHER MONTH: Spellcaster (1988)
Charles Band bought a castle, Castello di Giove, to make movies in*, which gives this movie a great look. It’s so 1988 that it hurts, featuring an MTV-style channel that creates a contest where viewers will compete to find a $1 million dollar check hidden in the walls of the estate of the enigmatic Diablo […]
SLASHER MONTH: Bloody Beach (2000)
Remember the 2000 internet? Get ready to relive it in this South Korean slasher, which posits a chatroom meet-up in the sun and fun, where great looking teens who just happen to use the internet — not everyone was on it like this in 2000 and trust me, as someone who did many meet-ups, not […]
SLASHER MONTH: Prom Night III: The Last Kiss (1989)
Oh Canada. You brought us the just alight Prom Night, the beyond great and why doesn’t everyone celebrate this movie like they do other inferior films Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II and the not altogether bad Prom Night IV: Deliver Us From Evil. Notably, none of those movies relate to one another at all. So go […]
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