Tag Archives: slasher

When a fairy tale becomes a horror….

Posted on May 20, 2016 by Daniel

It’s Alice in Murderland vs. Little Dead Rotting Hood! Be scared. Be very scared. ALICE IN MURDERLAND (2010)   As I worked my way through Alice in Murderland, I had a very strong feeling I’d done this all before. Turns … Continue reading →

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The Netherlands slaughtered it with this slasher…in a good way

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Daniel

Okay, so the translation of this film from the Netherlands couldn’t be any more generic. The title Slaughter Night doesn’t really do this movie justice—it could describe any direct to DVD slasher from the past 3 decades that attempted to … Continue reading →

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Burnt Offerings: a new era of the slow burner horror film?

Posted on June 25, 2010 by Daniel

Having almost 40 years of experience watching horror films (I’m 41 and have been watching some form of horror films since I was like 5) I grew up on what are now considered ‘slow burners’: horror films that have about … Continue reading →

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I want me gold! And don’t call me Leprechaun…

Posted on June 24, 2010 by Daniel

Riding the wave of the slasher resurgence due to the Scream series from 1996 – 2000, the 2002 film Miner’s Massacre (aka: Curse of the Forty-Niner) is  slightly better than a SyFy Original slasher (because the sex, blood, and bad … Continue reading →

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More than you’d ever want to know about the 80s classic Square Pegs

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Daniel

I was in 8th grade when the television show Square Pegs premiered in the fall of 82 and became an instant hit with the Gen-X crowd. Rather than sending us off to the School of the Performing Arts and thereby … Continue reading →

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Blood Song—Totally Out of Tune Terror

Posted on April 29, 2010 by Daniel

This 1982 slasher has everything going for it. A classic synthesized Halloween theme song rip-off, Donna Wilkes, who shrieked her way through Jaws II and later played hot hooker Angel, and teen angel Frankie Avalon as the killer! Need I … Continue reading →

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The ultimate 80s slasher–Linnea Quigley, Billy Hufsey, Felony…and even Vanna White

Posted on October 16, 2009 by Daniel

If you hated the jocks back in high school, then 80s slasher Graduation Day is the movie for you, because a killer is taking them all out. The movie opens with an awful disco song (someone didn’t get the memo … Continue reading →

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