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Top Secret New Michael Myers Mask Revealed!
Rob Zombie has engineered a hell of a lot of security to keep HALLOWEEN 2’s new mask secret all through filming – a top feat, in this internet age. Now the time has come to reveal all – while we … Continue reading
Halloween Comics Embargo To End?
If you’re an avid reader of Stefan Hutchinson’s HALLOWEEN comics for Devil’s Due based on the classic series continuity, you’re surely as forlorn as I over the long-ass delay for HALLOWEEN: THE FIRST DEATH OF LAURIE STRODE #3 and continued … Continue reading
DVD Announcement: Psychos In Love
Streeting April 28 from Media Blaster’s genre arm Shriek Show comes Gorman Bechard’s PSYCHOS IN LOVE (1987) one of the most charming retro slashers to date – a slash-rom-com, and with a killer theme song to boot. What a pants … Continue reading
Slaughter High #1 Best Selling DVD!
In a win for retro slashers everywhere, SLAUGHTER HIGH (1986) is the #1 selling title at DVD Empire currently, out of all possible DVDs to buy. One of Lionsgate’s other releases this week, MY BEST FRIEND IS A VAMPIRE, is … Continue reading
Code Red Update On Trapped & Terror Circus
Code Red are back with a few new releases. TRAPPED and TERROR CIRCUS are not slashers per se but have tangible relations to the subgenre – TRAPPED being a revenge film and TERROR CIRCUS cut from PSYCHO cloth. For June … Continue reading
Roth Reveals Plans For The Ultimate Slasher Film
Say what you will about GRINDHOUSE (2007), but Eli Roth’s faux-trailer for THANKSGIVING was inspired lunacy, achieving a sense of genuine loyalty and homage to the golden age of the slasher film in its 2 and a half minutes that … Continue reading
First Wrong Turn 3 Images Revealed
Who’s with me on this – WRONG TURN (2003) is the modern-day descendant of Jeff Lieberman’s JUST BEFORE DAWN (1981)? I haven’t had the courage to venture into the recent sequel yet as its Reality-TV struck me as totally non-retro … Continue reading
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Retro Slashers Content Migration
Just a quick note that the main RetroSlashers.net site is down, and will be for the next week or two. Over the past year, this blog which was intended as A) a place to make easy updates and get material … Continue reading
NightmareOnElmStreetMovie.com Opens
From the drunken lothario that brings you Horror Yearbook comes a news website dedicated to the upcoming A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (2010). If you’re after all the latest on the Platinum Dunes reboot which stars Jackie Earle Haley (WATCHMEN) … Continue reading
Halloween 2 Shooting Wrapped
Rob Zombie’s HALLOWEEN 2 has finished shooting, so now decent materials should start pouring in. Throughout filming, Zombie seemed to spend his internet time building some sort of alternate in-film universe for the fictional music and TV acts featured in … Continue reading