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Tag Archives: slashers
Travel back to the 90s with the slasher flick Detention
Having just blogged about Don’t Go to the Reunion and its noticeable nod to 90s slashers, I’m not surprised that 2011’s Detention does the same. A girl at the beginning of the film even warns us that the 90s are … Continue reading
Can you handle The Green Monster?
The Green Monster is a bizarro flick of horror, dark comedy, sex, brutality, and drugs. It involves convenience store owners who kill rich young kids, make voodoo concoctions out of their body parts, and then dump their dead asses in … Continue reading
Take a CHILL pill with scream queer Roger Conners and a good time indie slasher!
I was psyched to see self-proclaimed “scream queer” Roger Conners as a leading man in Chill—and to talk to him about being a gay actor working in the genre he loves. See our full conversation at the end of this … Continue reading
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Tagged Chill, gay horror, Roger Conners, slashers
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Don’t Go to the Reunion: a retro throwback to retro throwbacks
With the 20-year anniversary of Scream coming up, It was inevitable that a generation of filmmakers would start making movies celebrating the late-90s slasher reboot era just like Kevin Williamson was celebrating the 80s generation of slashers when he wrote … Continue reading
It’s just Hellweek. What could possibly go wrong?
Low-budget flick Hellweek seems to be influenced by movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Saw, and House of 1,000 Corpses. It involves an urban legend about a messed up family that once owned this old doll factory…and a bunch of … Continue reading
The time Frosty the Snowman started microwaving women
As if the title of the 1983 film Microwave Massacre doesn’t tip you off, you know you’re in for a trashy cult film when a chick sticks her huge hooters into a “glory hole” at a construction site in the … Continue reading
The Last Horror Film; it’s like Maniac 2
Two years after creepy Joe Spinell played a psycho killer who targeted Caroline Munro in Maniac, he played a psycho killer who targeted Caroline Munro even more in The Last Horror Film (not to be confused with The Last Horror … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, slashers, The Last Horror Movie
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Mario Lopez has cabin fever when it comes to horror movies
So of course Mario Lopez’s most important role ever was as the young illegal immigrant boy that Dorothy tutored on a very special episode of The Golden Girls. But he actually did a couple of other acting gigs…including TWO horror … Continue reading
Girls Gone Dead makes Slumber Party Massacre movies look feminist
When Girls Gone Dead showed up on cable, I had no expectations. I’d ignored numerous suggestions to add it to my cart while buying other slashers on Amazon. It looked like it would probably be a worse no-budget slasher than … Continue reading
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3 bad seeds make for one Bloody Birthday
Combine The Bad Seed with early 80s slasher mentality and you get Bloody Birthday. An opening kill of a couple having sex in a grave makes this look (and sound) like another Friday the 13th knockoff. But this is the … Continue reading