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March 4 2011

Blue Underground Bring The Nesting To DVD/Blu-Ray

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The terror that hides inside your mind will soon be the terror that hides in your media player. Armand Weston’s The Nesting (1980) is coming to DVD and BD from Blue Underground on June 28. This is quite the unexpected announcement as the title has long been associated with Code Red DVD as a future release and was still buried as a page on their website last we checked. But if any other company exercises due diligence in acquisitions, it’s Bill Lustig’s BU. Extras are thin, but in this case the most special feature is the film itself – we’ll be getting the previously unreleased Director’s Cut! Read on for the synopsis, cover art and disc details.

February 19 2011

New York’s Finest Slashers Posterized

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William Lustig’s Maniac has been getting a lot of renewed appreciation lately, centered on the seminal 1980 NY slasher’s new theatrical run – if the recent Stephen Romano poster wasn’t cool enough (it was!), here’s another by Ken Taylor for Mondo Tees in support of the Alamo Drafthouse’s recent showing. Not only that, but it was screened back-to-back with Lustig’s slasher-action hybrid Maniac Cop 2 (1990), and we’re also showing off the custom poster artwork for that by Jason Edmiston here.

February 14 2011

My Bloody Valentine Theatrical Night (Video)

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As we say farewell to My Bloody Valentine Week and Valentine’s Day (don’t know about you, but we’re feeling bloated from all the heart-shaped candy), here’s an all-encompassing video short covering Blood Thirsty Thursday‘s theatrical screening of the uncut version that Retro Slashers co-sponsored during the week.

February 14 2011

My Bloody Valentine: Further Viewing For The Lovelorn

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My Bloody Valentine Week here at Retro Slashers has provided in-depth exploration of the 1981 classic: second-guessing the villain’s identity, filling your head with trivia, waxing nostalgic, contrasting the remake, and going brokeback with the boys of Valentine Bluffs. That’s a lot of love. If you’ve watched the movie for the umpteenth time and realized “it doesn’t get much better than this”, here are two additional titles that show the really red side of romance.

February 1 2011

Severin DVD’s Double Serving Of Slashery

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We’re playing catch-up with things in the new year so here is some overdue DVD news from Severin. You already knew Bloody Birthday was on the way, and you’ll be pleased to hear what the cover plans are. An unforgettable image for an unforgettable pint-sized slasher storyline. Also on tap from Severin is Nightmares (1980, aka Stage Fright) makes for a fine Australian apology for Houseboat Horror, mixing drama and horror – “A little girl named Cathy tries to keep her mother from making out with a man while driving one day, and she inadvertently causes her mother’s death in the car crash. 16 years later, Cathy has changed her name to Helen and has become a psychotic actress. Things are going fine until horrible things starts to happened with the cast of her new play.”

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January 26 2011

Retro Slashers Invites You To My Bloody Valentine Uncut Theatrical Screening At Alamo Drafthouse

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Retro Slashers is teaming up with Blood Thirsty Thursdays for a theatrical screening night of George Mihalka’s 1981 Canadian ode to pick-axes, My Bloody Valentine (Review). Best of all, the print is UNRATED & UNCUT! Venue will be Alam0 Westlakes, San Antonio TX at both 8pm and 10.30pm on Thursday, Feb 10th. Tickets will be available at the Drafthouse website. Check out the flyer…

January 19 2011

EXCLUSIVE: Code Red DVD To Release Ghostkeeper

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Due to overwhelming demand from horror fans, Code Red has acquired the 1981 Canadian slasher film Ghostkeeper.

A trio of friends on a snowmobile trip in the Canadian Rockies become lost after venturing up a trail during a bad snowstorm. They stumble upon a seemingly abandoned hotel lodge and decide to spend the night, unaware of the grave danger that they have put themselves in.

Internet columnist Amanda By Night says, “this Canadian horror film is slasher and monster lite, but has oodles of snow and deep synthesizer sounds to keep you going. Like ‘Madman’, or more appropriately, ‘The Prey’.”

Director Jim Makichuk is on hand to create extras for this lost slasher.

Street date TBA.

January 5 2011

The Lost Sequel? Shutting Down Slaughterhouse 2

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Rick Roessler’s Slaughterhouse (1987) told the tender tale of the Bacon family; the two man team of elderly father Lester, facing the loss of the land both his home and old slaughterhouse reside on, and his big, brainless son Buddy who is directed to kill those who cause them upset and opposition.

December 26 2010

Review: My Name Is Kris Kringle (2010, Short)

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Fangoria‘s online arm gave visitors a ‘Christmas gift’ this year, an exclusive short movie produced by Robert Galluzzo (The Psycho Legacy) and written/directed by Drew Daywalt (didn’t know his work until this).

What drew me to My Name Is Kris Kringle was a killer santa role played by R.A. Mihailoff – Leatherface in Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3! As a fan of Silent Night, Deadly Night, To All A Good Night and the like I’ve been patiently waiting for the return of the santa slasher film (sorry, I couldn’t get through five minutes of Santa’s Slay).

My Name Is Kris Kringle didn’t deliver on the setup.

This is a good thing.

Let me explain…

When the slasher (carrying a decapitated head) is apprehended by police in the very first minute, every killer santa template goes out the window. The remainder of this roughly 10-minute short takes place in the copshop, and builds to an utterly chilling twist carried completely by dialogue.

In summary, this was a complete 180 from what I expected – an anti-slasher slasher.

At time of writing, My Name Is Kris Kringle can be viewed on the Fango homepage.

December 23 2010

Future Kill Composer Robert Renfrow Passes Away

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I have been informed by a close friend of Future Kill composer and true Texan Robert Renfrow that he passed away on December 9th 2010 after a short illness. He was only 49. It feels like a major blow to me – in 2006 I interviewed Renfrow and it was one of my favorite interview experiences ever, having seen the movie an innumerable amount of times and knowing every synth tune in the back of my mind. I know he enjoyed recollecting his experiences from the movie, too.

The sound quality in the video here doesn’t do Renfrow’s score justice (one reason the film score really needs to be released), it’s a fitting track to include here, with the title ‘Splatter’s Requiem’.