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New Happy Birthday to Me ad features a Quote from Retro Slashers
The new print ad for Happy Birthday to Me includes a quote from Lance Vaughan’s Retro Slasher review for the film. The quote can be found directly below the dvd and beside the Amazon logo. To read Lance’s review click … Continue reading
Halloween II Retrospective in Fango #288
Any Halloween fan wanting to know more about the rest of the night HE came home should check out Pat Jankiewicz’s interesting retrospective in the current issue of Fangoria. Director Rick Rosenthal reveals how behind-the-scenes battles between John Carpenter and … Continue reading
Gore House Greats Collection
Slasher fans rushing to Wal-Mart in search of Happy Birthday to Me should keep their eyes open for the $5 Gore House Greats Collection. Most of the 12 films in the collection rank somewhere between bloody awful and drive-in trash, … Continue reading
Halloween 3D is Dead for Now
Back on September 5th I warned Halloween fans not to get their hopes up at the prospect of seeing Halloween 3D in the near future no matter what the Weinsteins’ promised. My suspicions were confirmed tonight when TWC pulled the … Continue reading
Beauty Queen Butcher (1991)
Usually a lost slasher finally getting released makes a few headlines but here’s one that has gone mostly unnoticed. The S.O.V. Beauty Queen Butcher, filmed way back in 1991, wasn’t released until 2007 by Camp Motion Pictures as part of … Continue reading
Halloween II Bombs, Now the Real Bloodbath Begins
The layoffs have started at The WeinsteinCompany just one week after Rob Zombie’s Halloween II finished a disappointing third at the box-office. TWC, once a major player in Hollywood, had pinned its survival on the box-office performance of Halloween II. … Continue reading
Joyride (1983) Book Review
Horror fiction writers were slow to take up the slasher mantle back in the early 80’s even though celluloid stalkers were carving up hefty profits at the box-office. Anyone scanning paperback racks at the corner market were more likely to … Continue reading
Celebrate this weekend with a Retro Slashers Trifecta
Right this moment a major debate is taking place in the United States. Will you see Halloween II or The Final Destination this weekend? I say to hell with the debate, go see both films. Here’s how the Retro Slashers … Continue reading
How To Survive A Horror Movie (2007) Book Review
Talk about finding a diamond among a bunch of worthless rocks. I first saw Seth Grahame-Smith’s excellent book on a new release table sandwiched between mountains of Oprah’s latest Book of the Month and literary dreck that folks buy but … Continue reading
A Tribute to Michelle Bauer
***WARNING***NOT WORK FRIENDLY*** Michelle Bauer is my favorite scream queen. When Bauer retired in 1995 several publications marked the event with special issues and goodies for die hard fans. These images are from an autographed card set released by Scream … Continue reading