Latest Slasher Flick Reviews
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...
Read More "A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master"If you think you'll get out alive, You must be dreaming.
Posted on 03/14/2010 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Despite being one of the better sequels in the Elm Street franchise, A Nightmare on Elms Street 3: Dream Warriors is definitely the turning point where Freddy starts to show off to his audience and begins the descending spiral towards the cartoon character he is destined to become. For the most part...
Read More "A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors"Someone is coming back to Elm Street!
Posted on 02/13/2010 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Faced with having to express an opinion on the whole Elm Street franchise, the most daunting one to rein judgment upon has to be the second installment, Freddy's Revenge. The main reason for this is due to the two very different scenarios in which this movie has seduced my retina and caressed my occ...
Read More "A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge"Sleep Kills
Posted on 01/31/2010 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Definitely the most influential slasher movie in my humble career as a horror obsessive and a contender for "horror movie that started my mania", Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street summons my first memory of the excitement and trepidation that a newbie to the horror genre experiences when faced ...
Read More "A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)"If You Survive This Night... Nothing Will Scare You Again.
Posted on 01/25/2010 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Alice, Sweet Alice is a nice little chunk of psychological grey-matter shafting slasherism from 1976 America, although it was originally released as Communion it was re-released as Alice, Sweet Alice in 1978 and then again as Holy Terror in 1981. One of the main reasons that this movie has the abili...
Read More "Alice, Sweet Alice AKA Communion"Ethan Wiley's Serial Slashfest
Posted on 12/09/2009 by Pazuzu Iscariot
If a movie has a bound and ceilingly suspended lady of the slutty persuasion receive a chainsaw to the spine before the opening credits then you can pretty much expect me to enjoy it. If a horror movie stars Jeffery Coombs and Michael Berryman then you can guarantee I will get a teensy bit excited. ...
Read More "Brutal"When the kidding stops... the killing starts!
Posted on 11/30/2009 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Another movie banned in the UK during the Video Nasties hysteria in the 1980's is Pranks, probably better known as The Dorm that Dripped Blood. Directors Stephen Carpenter and Jeffrey Obrow deliver another slasher quite stereotypical of the era, a time when slashers didn't require numb-nut panic-str...
Read More "The Dorm That Dripped Blood"So Sleazy it Needs No Tagline
Posted on 09/06/2009 by Pazuzu Iscariot
If you are a fan of unstylish German early-eighties retro slashers (and surely this is a dominant genetic trait nowadays) then you cannot possibly die until you have seen Jesus Franco's "almost" infamous video nasty Bloody Moon (Die Säge des Todes – "The Saw of Death") AKA Profonde Tenebre and The B...
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