2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 29: Sisters (1972)
29. DOUBLE TROUBLE: There’s gotta be some twins in there somewhere. Brian De Palma was inspired to make Sisters after reading an article in Life magazine about how Soviet conjoined twins Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova were separated. A photo at the end of the article — along with a mention that the girls were developing […]
Slasher Month: Psycho from Texas (1975)
“Momma? Momma, please don’t hurt me, momma!” — thus Wheeler’s love of the knife He hunts women. His knife tells him to! — a tagline that says it all Okay, if that tagline and line of dialog doesn’t sell it, along with the one-sheets: This is a story of a drifter who makes his way […]
SLASHER MONTH: Hollow Gate (1988)
At a Halloween party ten years ago, a young boy named Mark Walters was almost killed by his drunken, alcoholic father who tried to drown him in the apple bobbing water. Now, the boy has grown up and is ready to begin a murder spree. Mark is off his pills, he’s killed the grandmother who […]
SLASHER MONTH: Slashers (2001)
$la$her$ is a Japanese game show that invites contestants to win millions of dollars if — and that’s a big of — they can survive being hunted down by Preacherman, Chainsaw Charlie and Dr. Ripper. During the show, all crimes are legal, but everyone must remain motionless during commercial breaks. For the first time ever, […]
SLASHER MONTH: Coda (1987)
Coda is an Australian TV movie that never made it to the theaters but man, there are still great slashers out there that I haven’t seen and that gives me some hope for the rest of this life, right? Also called Deadly Possession and Symphony of Evil, this has a white faced, black gloved killer […]
SLASHER MONTH: Bloodstream (1985)
Michael J. Murphy made some berserk movies. I mean, Invitation to Hell is something. And this is perhaps stranger, made after Murphy got screwed over on the profits for that movie and Last Night and put 400 pounds worth of cash into this one, in which director Alistair Bailey is fired from a project by notorious VHS distributor […]
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