Latest Slasher Flick Reviews
Stay away from Lisa!
Posted on 09/08/2011 by Pazuzu Iscariot
In 1977 Frederick R. Friedel's marketing people decided to shock the US with horror marketing typical of the time and a film called Lisa, Lisa (more commonly known as Axe but also known as California Axe Massacre, California Axe Murders, The Axe Murders and The Virgin Slaughter). The artwork and the...
Read More "Lisa Lisa AKA Axe"Join the harvest
Posted on 08/22/2011 by Hellbound Heart
I've had mostly positive experiences with After Dark Films of late – although with at least one notable exception (*cough* The Task *cough*) so I had some hope for Husk (2011). After Dark may not be exactly re-inventing the wheel, but they generally have enough about them to turn out a decent horror...
Read More "Husk"Where shopping can cost an arm and a leg
Posted on 12/31/2010 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Back in the mid-eighties when scientists were technologically advanced enough to create sentient, self-actualising robots but couldn't quite work out how to empower them a wide vocabulary or legs, Jim Wynorski delivered Chopping Mall (AKA Killbots) to a very small proportion of the masses. As was cu...
Read More "Chopping Mall AKA Killbots"They came to play, they stayed to die.
Posted on 12/16/2010 by Pazuzu Iscariot
With the opening scene consisting of the hanging of a wheel-chaired coffin-dodger followed closely by the stabbing of the gentleman that set up the noose trap setting the scene for the longevity of most of the characters in this movie, it is a wonder that Mario Bava manages to develop any characters...
Read More "Bay Of Blood (Reazione A Catena)"If you lived here, you'd be dead by now.
Posted on 10/08/2010 by That Ghoul Ava
Almost everyone likes Tobe Hooper, right? I mean, this is the fucking genius that gave us The Texas Chainsaw Massacre & Poltergeist - what's not to like? Even his campy horror films like The Funhouse & Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 were pretty damn entertaining. So when I was spending a productive night...
Read More "Toolbox Murders (2004)"Violence beyond reason, Victims beyond help.
Posted on 09/30/2010 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Picture a scenario where a trio of eighties beauties on their way to an out of town jazz concert for a bit of clean eighties fun take a wrong turn while listening to news on the radio about the death of teenage eighties girls in the area and you can pretty much guess where the plot is going. As for ...
Read More "Unhinged"Pieces... It's exactly what you think it is!
Posted on 08/22/2010 by Pazuzu Iscariot
With a copious amount of blood-painted axe murderousness at the hands of a young boy defending his naked lady jigsaw before the opening credits you almost guarantee Juan Piquer Simón's Pieces (Mil gritos tiene la noche) will get a positive review here. Throw in an abundance of bra-challenged eightie...
Read More "Pieces (Mil Gritos Tiene La Noche)"Evil has finally met its match.
Posted on 07/13/2010 by Pazuzu Iscariot
The metamorphosis of Freddy Krueger from nightmarishly intimidating boogeyman to ridiculous pussified cartoon character reaches its climax of juvenile and uninspiring humour with the sixth Elm Street; Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare. The character of Freddy is already dead by this instalment in t...
Read More "Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare"Now Freddy's A Daddy, He's Killing For Two.
Posted on 07/04/2010 by That Ghoul Ava
I'm not even going to try and bullshit you: I love everything Freddy. EVERYTHING. Perhaps it's because he encompasses everything I am - evil & sadistic with a dark sense of humor. Or maybe it's because I like my villains with personality. I also grew up (I use that term loosely) on the Nightmare on ...
Read More "A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child"You shouldn't have buried me, I'm not dead
Posted on 03/18/2010 by Pazuzu Iscariot
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master is the first indication that the franchise has less of a future than a marriage between Ted Bundy and a snuff fetishist. From the lame 80s opening music performed by Patricia Arquette's Kristen replacement (Tuesday Knight), the fact that they had to repl...
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