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Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 by
Perfesser Deviant
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Director: Wes Craven
Writer: Wes Craven
Release Year: 1984
It’s the stuff that dreams are made of.
Teenagers Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp), Tina Gray (Amanda Wyss), Glen Lantz (Johnny Depp), Rod Lane (Nick Corri) and others are having bad dreams. When they compare their dreams, they find that there’s a creepy guy – who turns out to be Fred Krueger (Robert Englund) – in all of their dreams. Their parents get cagey when they start asking questions and, when the deaths start, it’s clear that something is horribly, horribly wrong….
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Tags: Dreams, Nightmares, Slasher, Supernatural
Posted in Horror, Reviews
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 by
Scott_LeBrun
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Director: Jack Sholder
Writer: Jack Sholder, Robert Shaye and Michael Harrpster
Release year: 1982
An overlooked early 80′s horror gem
Sometimes films will charm you right off the bat. Sometimes you’ll enjoy them only to later wonder what the hell you were thinking. And sometimes they appeal more to you the more you see them. This is the case for me with writer/director Jack Sholder‘s 1982 film Alone in the Dark. (By the way, confusing it with the 2005 video game adaptation would be doing it a real disservice).
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Tags: Asylum, Slasher
Posted in Horror, Reviews
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 by
Perfesser Deviant
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Director: Mitchell Altieri & Phil Flores
Writer: Mikey Wigart, Danilo Bach, Mitchell Altieri & Phil Flores
Release Year: 2008
You know, that’s just not funny.
Rich bitch Desiree Cartier (Taylor Cole) and her butthead brother Blaine (Josh Henderson) plan a prank to ruin the reputation of fellow rich bitch Milan Hastings (Sabrina Aldridge) at a débutante coming out party they throw for Torrance Caldwell (Scout Taylor-Compton). Milan dies after stumbling off a balcony when she has a bad reaction to the roofies they used to romance her. A year later, they find out that someone knows what they did last April fool’s day….
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Tags: Slasher
Posted in Horror, Reviews
Monday, January 4th, 2010 by
shuizmz
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Director: Jess Franco
Writer: Erich Tomek
Release year: 1981
German Title: Die Säge des Todes
If only every slasher film had a stone mill saw at its disposal.
A boarding school is plagued by grisly murders. Cult director Jess Franco, with his inimitable ways of poor or artistic taste – you be the judge of that – gives us his take on the late 70′s/early 80′s whodunit slasher format.
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Tags: Euro Horror, Slasher, Sleaze, Video Nasty
Posted in Horror, Reviews
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 by
Perfesser Deviant
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Director: Thom Keith
Writer: Thom Keith
Release Year: 1991
On top of Old Smokey, all covered with cheese, Thom Keith made a movie, with not enough sleaze.
We open with a bunch of sorority girls (including Savannah, Suzanne Ager, and Michelle Bauer) showering and doing other lovely things, but that quickly ends as Professor Hamilton (Vincent Van Patten), his student girlfriend Jamie (Betsy Russell) and some other girls whose names I never bothered learning head out to a field trip into the wilderness to meet as many clichés as possible….
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Tags: Slasher
Posted in Horror, Reviews
Sunday, October 5th, 2008 by
Perfesser Deviant
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Director: Robert Madero
Writer: Robert Madero and Skippy McGriff
Release Year: 2002
Third wheels keep on turning.
Many years ago, dirty hippie cult leader / musician Timothy Bach (Stephen Pearcy) went nuts one night and started chopping up fellow dirty hippie cult members at their dirty hippie cult commune Camp Utopia. Now, some years later, five teenagers are going camping in the same place where the crimes once happened! Oh no!
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Tags: Slasher
Posted in Horror, Reviews
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 by
Anna McKibben
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Director: Scott Spiegel
Writer: Scott Spiegel, from a story by Lawrence Bender
Release Year: 1989
“Say it ain’t so, Produce Joe!”
The night crew at a small grocery store is getting picked off like so much fresh produce, but who is doing the harvesting?
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Tags: Mr. Horror, Slasher
Posted in Horror, Reviews
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 by
shuizmz and Perfesser Deviant
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Director: Alan Birkinshaw
Writer: Alan Birkinshaw
Release Year: 1978
A jolly good time!
The bus transporting a schoolgirl choir breaks down in the woods at the same time a quartet of maniacs has broken loose from their LSD “dream therapy.” Those maniacs become very happy to have a nice cache of nubile victims since the dream therapy was presented to them as a way that they could satisfy their desires and, thus, heal their various psychoses….
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Tags: Slasher, Torture
Posted in Horror, Reviews
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 by
Severed Survival
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Director: William Lustig
Writer: C. A . Rosenberg and Joe Spinell
Release Year: 1980
Every time you go out this kind of thing happens.
A woman has her throat sliced as she was waiting for her boyfriend on an empty beach. When the boyfriend returns, a hulking figure attacks him from behind and garrotes him off of the ground. Frank (Joe Spinell) wakes up screaming and sweaty. It was only a nightmare. He begins to rock himself back and forth to gather his bearings. It is apparent that Frank has some serious mental issues… and we are only three minutes into the film.
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Tags: Exploitation, Slasher
Posted in Horror, Reviews
Saturday, February 14th, 2009 by
Anna McKibben
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Director: George Mihalka
Writer: John Beaird, based on a story by Stephen A. Miller
Release Year: Theatrical Cut – 1981 / Uncut DVD – 2008
Harry Warden: He’ll mine your heart, then put it in a nice box and send it to the town mayor.
Twenty years after a Valentine’s Day massacre, the mining town of Valentine Bluffs is ready to host a dance in celebration of the lovers holiday. However, a grisly reminder of Harry Warden’s murderous spree puts the town on edge: Could Harry be back to finish his gruesome business?
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Tags: Slasher
Posted in Horror, Reviews
Director: Wes Craven
