Category Archives: Features

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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A Retro Slasher Salute to USA Network 1985-1995

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Thomas Ellison

These days USA Network is known for wrasslin’, Law & Order marathons, and hip original shows like Burn Notice.  Back in the 1980s and early 1990s USA featured some really wild and crazy shows, the kind of shows that stay with impressionable … Continue reading →

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Troma’s Mother’s Day Coming To Blu-Ray

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Dusk

A remake may be out in a few weeks and an appendage-movie in Father’s Day later, but June 7 brings Mother’s Day (1980) home on blu-ray. Not typical Troma fare at all, but back then 80’s Troma wasn’t really Troma … Continue reading →

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Is Mass Market Horror Fiction Dead?

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Thomas Ellison

Over the last thirty years the market for horror novels has exploded, dried up to almost nothing, found new life through the splatterpunk movement, died off again, and then made a comeback through Leisure Books’ line of mass market horror novels.  Last … Continue reading →

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Early Bird SOV Slasher Sledgehammer Coming To DVD

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Dusk

Start-up distributor Intervision Pictures Corp, who have a name and logo right out of the 1980’s, will release Sledgehammer (1983) to DVD on May 10. There’s something about a clear “laughing” mask that’s creepy beyond Michael Myers’ pale mug. Variations … Continue reading →

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Blue Underground Bring The Nesting To DVD/Blu-Ray

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Dusk

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 … Continue reading →

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The Slasher Expeditions Part 2: The Attic of Terror

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Thomas Ellison

There once was a local Pic-A-Flick-Video store that was home to the greatest collection of horror movies I’ve ever seen.  What made this store so special was its location,  a two story building.  Downstairs was pretty much like every other … Continue reading →

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Human Blood Required: The Making of Evilspeak

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Christian Sellers

You could be forgiven for spending the first hour of Eric Weston’s horror drama Evilspeak wondering why on Earth it would have been included amongst the ‘video nasties’ during the mid-1980s. After all, it was relatively blood-free, inoffensive and the … Continue reading →

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The Burning Man: The Making of Don’t Go in the House

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Christian Sellers

Michael Myers had an axe, Leatherface had a chainsaw and Jason Voorhees had whatever was lying around – yet one of the most grizzly murder weapons used in the vintage days of exploitation was the flamethrower, the weapon of choice … Continue reading →

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New York’s Finest Slashers Posterized

Posted on February 19, 2011 by Dusk

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 … Continue reading →

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