Whenever a modern filmmaker takes a stab (heh-heh) at a slasher film, I’m always a little nervous. Seems these days that everyone wants to remake one of the hits (and occasionally, even misses) of yesteryear, sometimes for the artistic merit, sometimes for nostalgia; sadly, however, it’s all too often simply to “remake” some o’ those […]
If you’re a fan of 80’s horror, you pretty much have to love slashers. If you love slashers, you’ve likely seen 1981’s The Burning, and you probably have an opinion as to whether or not it’s a rip-off of the insanely popular film from the summer before, Friday The 13th. Writer Harvey Weinstein (of the […]
Right out of the gate, let me get everyone clear on exactly what film I’m reviewing. As is the case with some foreign films, Nightmares (which is what I’ll call it, as the copy I watched used that name) had multiple titles, and this one just happened to share both of its monikers with other […]
A group of young people (sometimes teens, sometimes college students) travel together to an isolated place (a summer camp, island, secluded beach, cabin deep in the woods) to have some fun. There’s drugs, booze, sex, dick jokes, and good times. At some point, either heralded by someone telling a story about it or totally without […]
Imagine if you took a strictly bargain-basement American slasher from the early eighties and mixed it with an equally budget-challenged Italian giallo from the early to mid-1970s; sauté this mixture lightly with some unintentionally (but stupidly) hilarious dialogue, pretty decent gore effects, and a script that a ninth grader couldn’t possibly take seriously. Serve lukewarm […]
When you sharpen a knife, you can only go so far with your technique; once you reach that razor’s edge, anything you do beyond that is wasted effort. Sometimes, I feel that we’ve hit that point with the slasher film; actually, we probably hit it twenty-five or thirty years ago. Sure, every now and then […]
The eighties was the heyday of the slasher flick; I mean, c’mon; on the heels of Carpenter’s Halloween at the close of the ’70s, you had a virtual gold mine of hack ‘n’ slashes that followed. Friday the 13th, My Bloody Valentine, Terror Train, Prom Night, Bloody Birthday; the list could go on for pages. […]
If any of you Fellow Fans out there have been looking for a different take on the slasher genre, we highly recommend that you check out Camp Dread, comin’ at you April 15th; just a few days away from this writing. The film stars Eric Roberts, Danielle Harris, and Felissa Rose, and rounds out this […]
