“Punish!” Christmas hasn’t been the same since 1984. That’s the year that the highly controversial (for its time) Silent Night, Deadly Night was released in theaters. The film, released on the same day as the original A Nightmare on Elm Street, featured Robert Brian Wilson as Billy Chapman, a young man who, along with hisContinue reading “Revenge Of The Slashers: Billy Chapman”
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Revenge Of The Slashers: Victor Crowley
“Tell Me This Is Part Of The Tour.” If you’re ever out in the swamps just outside of New Orleans late at night, listen closely and you might just hear Victor Crowley calling for his daddy. Beginning in 2006, horror got one of its newest slasher franchises with Hatchet. As almost every film that takesContinue reading “Revenge Of The Slashers: Victor Crowley”
Revenge Of The Slashers: The Phantom Killer
“If we do catch him, it’s gonna be a miracle.” What makes today’s Thirty-One Days O’Horror entry scarier than most of the other slashers that I’m looking at this month is the fact that he actually existed! While the 1976 film The Town That Dreaded Sundown took a few liberties with the actual Texarkana MoonlightContinue reading “Revenge Of The Slashers: The Phantom Killer”
Revenge Of The Slashers: Alex Hammond
“Do you still like to play games?” Wendy, Jude, Kelly, and Nick scare young Robin while playing in an abandoned building. She accidentally falls out of a window to her death. The four kids swear to never tell a soul about what happened….but someone saw Robin’s fall and knows the truth. Six years after herContinue reading “Revenge Of The Slashers: Alex Hammond”
Thirty-One Days O’Horror: Revenge Of The Slashers!!!
The Mayhem Is One Month Away!!! That’s right, kids! We are one month away from the 2023 edition of Thirty-One Days O’Horror! This year’s theme is Revenge Of The Slashers! I’m currently compiling my list of bad boys and bad girls that you’ll get to check out beginning October 1st. I have a few daysContinue reading “Thirty-One Days O’Horror: Revenge Of The Slashers!!!”
Cult Classic: Mortuary (1982)
“Hey Boogeyman! Let’s boogie!” Christie Parson loses her father in an apparent swimming accident, but she believes that he was murdered. When more people in her town go missing, she and her boyfriend, Greg, zero in on the local mortuary owner, Hank Andrews, and his bizarre son, Paul, as potential suspects. Throw in a fewContinue reading “Cult Classic: Mortuary (1982)”
Cult Classic: Pieces (1982)
“I guess I’m so used to the bodies….dead ones.” A villain modeled after the classic pulp hero called The Shadow, the guy who played Bluto in the live action Popeye (1980) movie, tons of blood and almost as much nudity, and a really messed up, puzzle-loving kid come together in 1982’s Pieces. The film, directedContinue reading “Cult Classic: Pieces (1982)”
Cult Classic: The Prowler (1981)
“I want you to be my date, Rose.” Landing smack in the middle of what many have dubbed the “Golden Age of Slasher Films” (1978-1984), The Prowler (1981) does a whole lot with the very little that it has going for it. It drops a rather unique looking murderer into a standard slasher plot, givesContinue reading “Cult Classic: The Prowler (1981)”
Cult Classic: Graduation Day (1981)
“They were all on your team.” When senior track star Laura Ramstead collapses and dies after winning a race, her teammates mysteriously begin dying at the the hands of an unknown killer in 1981’s Graduation Day. Critically panned, the film was still a financial success, pulling in over twenty million dollars against a budget ofContinue reading “Cult Classic: Graduation Day (1981)”
The Last Matinee (2020)
Montevideo on a rainy night, 1993 Imagine yourself in Montevideo, Uruguay way back in 1993. Heavy rain is falling and you want nothing more than to find your way into an old, rundown theater showing a lame horror flick so that you dry off for a bit and possibly enjoy the movie. Then, without warning,Continue reading “The Last Matinee (2020)”
