Category Archives: Reviews

The Bird With The Crystal Plumage (1970)

Posted on January 16, 2008 by Retro Slashers

Reviewed by Michael Keene There are few slasher films that make a horror fan rethink the genre, but if there is any one movie of the sort, it is most definitely a giallo film. For me, the giallo film that … Continue reading →

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X-Ray (1981) Review

Posted on January 16, 2008 by Thomas Ellison

Young Susan’s (Bloody Birthday’s Elizabeth Hoy) Valentine’s Day party is ruined when crazy little Harold (Billy Jacoby of Just One of the Guys) impales a kid on a coat rack and leaves him dangling like a meaty pinata. 19 years … Continue reading →

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Visiting Hours (1982) Review

Posted on January 16, 2008 by Thomas Ellison

Lee Grant stars as a tough fem news woman fighting to save a battered woman from prison. Grant’s activism sets off a maniac (Michael Ironside), is attacked, and spends the rest of the film in a hospital. Ironside follows Grant … Continue reading →

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The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976) Review

Posted on January 16, 2008 by Thomas Ellison

During the spring and summer of 1946, a hooded phantom stalked the lover’s lanes of sleepy Texarkana, Arkansas. The Phantom struck every twenty-one days despite a massive manhunt by state and federal officials. By the end of the summer, the … Continue reading →

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Terror on Tour (1980) Review

Posted on January 16, 2008 by Thomas Ellison

It’s all sex, drugs, and rock & roll for the Clowns, a band with Kiss’s make-up and Alice Cooper’s stage show. The party starts to sour when a slasher begins to thin out the female fan base. With dead groupies … Continue reading →

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Sweet Sixteen (1982) Review

Posted on January 16, 2008 by Thomas Ellison

The tranquility in a small Texas town is shattered by a series of brutal murders. Sheriff Burke (Bo Hopkins) and his kids (Friday the 13th III’s Dana Kimmell and Last American Virgin’s Steve Antin) have to catch the killer before … Continue reading →

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Strange Behavior (1981) Review

Posted on January 16, 2008 by Thomas Ellison

Dr. LeSange is dead and buried, but strange things keep occurring in sleepy Galesburg. Someone is killing the children of the men who opposed LeSange’s fiendish experiments. Evidence points to multiple slashers, but Sheriff Brady (Michael Murphy) believes LeSange is … Continue reading →

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Splatter University (1984) Review

Posted on January 16, 2008 by Thomas Ellison

A psycho escapes from a mental institution. Three years later, the female students and teachers of St. Trinians College fall victim to the knife wielding slasher. The new teacher on campus (Francine Forbes) thinks she knows the killer’s identity. After … Continue reading →

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Slumber Party Massacre 3 (1990) Review

Posted on January 16, 2008 by Thomas Ellison

It’s the early 90’s and the slasher genre, though not quite dead, is on life support. Everyone from politicians to major studio moguls are ghoulishly rubbing their hands together, anxious to pull the plug. Trips to the local Mom and … Continue reading →

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Scream For Help (1984) Review

Posted on January 16, 2008 by Thomas Ellison

Christie (Rachael Kelly) is sure her new step-father, Paul Fox (David Brooks), is trying to kill her mother but none of her friends or family take her warnings seriously. The suspicious teen stalks her step-father and his lover, Brenda (Lolita … Continue reading →

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