Monthly Archives: March 2011

EXCLUSIVE: Code Red’s Nightmare 2-Disc Set Finally

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Dusk

Code Red received quite a bashing from the genre DVD community for taking their own sweet time assembling a special edition of Nightmare (1981). Romano Scavolini’s film is a virtual camera lens inside the mind of a sweaty, mouth-foaming psychotic, … Continue reading →

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Interview: Filming Halloween 5’s Laundry Chute Sequence With DP Rob Draper, ACS

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Christian Sellers

Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers has long since divided fans of the series, with some feeling that the movie failed to live up to the comeback of The Return of Michael Myers and others appreciating the European feel … Continue reading →

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Blue Underground to Release Torso on Blu-ray

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Christian Sellers

Along with Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci and Mario Bava, Sergio Martino was one of the most successful Italian filmmakers working in the giallo genre during the 1970s. Among his most acclaimed work were La coda dello scorpione (The Case of … Continue reading →

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The Prowler’s Farley Granger R.I.P.

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Christian Sellers

It is a common method for ageing actors whose glory days are long behind them to accept roles in low budget horror movies in order to remain in the public spotlight. The slasher genre saw such esteemed screen legends as … Continue reading →

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By Sword, By Pick, By Axe: The Making of The Mutilator

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Christian Sellers

Critics may scoff and most film fans may turn their noses up at them, but the slasher genre is the perfect training ground for a young, wannabe filmmaker. With an almost non-existent budget, a simple premise, aided by a likeable … Continue reading →

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Writer Calls on Horror Fans to Boycott Leisure Books

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Thomas Ellison

When I wrote about the demise of Leisure’s mass market paperback line in favor of e-books, I had no idea the terrible drama playing out behind the scenes.  According to genre author Brian Keene, Dorchester/Leisure Books stopped paying royalties owed … Continue reading →

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Coppola’s Dementia 13 Making Its Way to Blu-ray

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Christian Sellers

Over the last couple of years there have been countless Roger Corman productions that have made their way to Blu-ray and now the latest to be upgraded is Francis Ford Coppola’s commercial debut Dementia 13. Having completed work on a … Continue reading →

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Murder on Film? The Story of Snuff

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Christian Sellers

Although they had courted controversy throughout the latter half of the 1960s with a string of sexploitation pictures that became regular attractions around Times Square, little did Michael and Roberta Findlay know that their legacy would be that of a … Continue reading →

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Small Screen Slashers – Trapped

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Christian Sellers

The same year that he fought Yul Brynner to the death in the science fiction classic Westworld, thirty-two year old James Brolin was forced to flee for his life through a closed department store from vicious guard dogs. Produced by … Continue reading →

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Stan Winston and the Slasher Film

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Christian Sellers

In the otherwise excellent book The Winston Effect: The Art and History of Stan Winston Studio, aside from a brief mention of the Friday the 13th sequels Stan Winston’s early work in the slasher genre was strangely omitted. This dismissal … Continue reading →

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