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Torso (Giallo Proto-Slasher Lives On)
Now, I’m not a huge slasher fan, especially slashers with non-supernatural villains, but I rather enjoyed Torso (1973, here the Arrow Video 4K special edition with a wealth of valuable, extra features), or, in the original Italian, I corpi presentano tracce di violenza carnale (The Bodies Show Traces of Carnal Violence). Let me change […]
Edward Gorey \ horror game \ PC \ PlayStation \ psychological horror \ slasher film \ Steam \ survival horror \ Switch \ THQ Nordic \ Xbox
REANIMAL (Edward Goreyian Slaughterhouse Horror)
Does the perfect horror game exist? Not with shooting things through the skull, but with searching, what I often refer to as the “seek-and-find” genre? I believe this time has finally arrived, with instant cult hit (to me at least) REANIMAL. First, let me specify what I mean by the earlier reference. The majority […]
Amazon Prime Video \ indie slasher \ Michael Donovan Horn \ slasher film \ tubi
Bone Face (Self-Reflective Indie Slasher)
To normal people, the horror nerd urge to scrape Tubi’s dregs and plumb dollar store DVD bins is inexplicable. But I pity them, because they don’t know the nat-20 dice-roll thrill of the pleasant surprise. It’s what keeps us returning to bargain baskets and back pages. Bone Face had nothing to recommend it. A […]
auteur horror \ Béla Tarr \ Chris Nash \ Gasfire Flims \ IFC Films \ Shudder \ slasher film
In A Violent Nature (Basically if Béla Tarr Made a Slasher)
Alright I waited awhile on this, though I had every intention of reviewing it. The reception of this film, leaning more to the side of “hated it,” is curious to me, but Chris Nash’s big failure wasn’t in the delivery, the plot, or the characters. His mistake was assuming horror fans have watched anything […]
88 Films \ giallo \ J-horror \ Japan \ Japanese horror \ slasher film \ Toshiharu Ikeda \ Unearthed Films
Evil Dead Trap / 死霊の罠 (Experimental J-Horror Slasher)
Here’s a good one, but not for reasons you’d likely guess. Having heard the legends of the “Evil Dead Trap Trilogy” (is it really though?), I was always curious about them, but not until I learned that 88 Films was doing their own Blu-ray drop of the first and second did I decide I […]
biker film \ giallo \ Italian horror \ Kino Lorber \ slasher film \ Umberto Lenzi
Nightmare Beach (Spring Breaker Motorcycle Slasher)
What better genre for Italian sleaze director Umberto Lenzi to try his hand in than the slasher? With success in creating some of the more notorious films of the 1970s and 1980s, including controversial Cannibal Ferox, part of the cannibal film boom, he already had, actually, with Eyeball (1975). Here, according to Lenzi originally, […]
Charles Kaufman \ rape revenge \ slasher film \ Troma Entertainment \ Vinegar Syndrome
Mother’s Day (I Love Mommy Rape Revenge Slasher)
Upon release in 1980, Charles Kaufman’s Mother’s Day has confused, enraged and intrigued audiences the world over with its uneasy mixture of crude humor and sheer terror. Made famous by a scathing takedown by Roger Ebert and praise from FANGORIA, the film continues to baffle with its tonal shifts. Either way, it’s an unforgiving […]
Robert Hammer \ slasher film \ VHS horror \ Vinegar Syndrome
Don’t Answer the Phone (Disturbed Veteran Slasher Shlock)
Taking it back to the Dawn of the Reagan Era this month with Don’t Answer the Phone. This by-the-numbers Kenneth Bianchi/Ted Bundy schlocker is elevated to somewhere near greatness by a balls-out performance by Nicholas Worth that will leave you grasping your chair in genuine fear. As for the rest of the film? Well, […]
Blu-ray \ psychological horror \ psychological slasher film \ Romano Scavolini \ Severin Films \ slasher film \ VHS
Nightmare (MKUltra Psychological Slasher Film)
It’s back! One of the sleaziest and ugliest of the slasher classics that oozed their ways onto movie theaters in the early 1980s has finally returned to your home after substandard earlier releases. Romano Scavolini’s Nightmare remains potent stuff and is more timely than ever in the wake of incidents like the Sandy Hook […]
Blu-ray \ giallo \ Italian horror \ Italian slasher \ Lamberto Bava \ slasher film \ Vinegar Syndrome
A Blade in the Dark (1980s Italian Slasher Splatter)
At the beginning of the 1980s, a violent New Wave of Italian splatter began washing up on these shores. Thanks to the international success of the work of Dario Argento, enterprising distribution houses were taking stabs at bringing Eurohorror to the plebes. Before disappearing into a mess of TV movies and bad rehashes of past glories, Lamberto Bava’s flame shone brightly as an emerging new force in Pasta Land. A Blade in the Dark (aka The House with the Dark Staircase), when viewed today, stands tall […]
