Category Archives: Features

The Prowler Gallery

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Razzle Dazzle, Platinum Dunes

This has been hailed as the “first” production photo from the set of NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (2010), and just like with FRIDAY THE 13th (2009) they chose the most exciting shot to show off – the producers hanging by … Continue reading

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Super Video Run (Archival – 2008)

One’s appreciation of the VHS format and to a lesser extent, slashers – is truly tested when you have to physically carry one third your body weight in them across state lines. Let me lay this shit right out – … Continue reading

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Scream & Riot Delayed

The Code Red produced Media Blasters/Shriek Show releases SCREAM and RIOT ON 42ND STREET are going through an unspecified release date change – according to Production Supervisor Richard York, who says the “originally announced release dates are now null” and … Continue reading

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SPAGHETTI SLASHERS – Giallo

Picture this – you are a wannabe screenwriter and your first effort somehow lands on the desk of one of your favourite directors. That’s what happened for budding scribes Jim Agnew and Sean Keller when their thriller Giallo attracted the … Continue reading

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Rob Zombie Crucifies Marketing Team

Wow. Rob Zombie has been promoting HALLOWEEN 2 more then making it, seemingly. Can be a good thing, can be a bad thing. But we’ve recently noticed that anytime genre fans don’t like something specific coming out of his camp, … Continue reading

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Code Red Alert: The Strangeness (1985)

Code Red bring forth forgotten retro horror! In THE STRANGENESS (1985), a group of explorers surveying an abandoned goldmine are trapped in a cave in, and find themselves at the mercy of a slimy, mysterious creature.

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Proto-Slashers #7: I Saw What You Did (1965)

Proto-Slashers: Looking at the flicks that paved the way for Halloween and the heyday of slasher movies.

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NEVER SLEEP AGAIN – A Nightmare on Elm Street Gallery

With the inevitable remake heading into production, Retro Slashers looks back on the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise with a series of retrospective articles entitled Never Sleep Again.

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GODFATHER OF GORE – Blood Feast

Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis Writer: A. Louise Downe Starring: Thomas Wood, Mal Arnold, Connie Mason, Lyn Bolton

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