by: Letitia
Posted on 05.24.10 in All Horror Films > Slasher

The 1983 slasher movie House on Sorority Row has pretty much every element you’ve seen in a slasher movie since then: clever-but-unlikely death scenes, girls at various levels of nakedness, the slutty girl/virginal girl combo, and the unstoppable faceless killer who can be everywhere at once. Although it’s completely predictable (with a few nice twists), House on Sorority Row is also incredibly fun–it does what 80’s slasher movies do best–it sells its …

by: Obaid K
Posted on 05.21.10 in All Horror Films > Exploitation > Slasher

Maladjusted characters and plenty of 70s-style sleaze and violence are what make this modern send-up of the classic exploitation film worth a watch, but only if you’re a fan of the genre. Aside from a vague religious theme there isn’t too much going on, but what it lacks in substance it makes up for with some good interplay between its cast of (for lack of a better word) scum – an armed …

by: KFear
Posted on 05.19.10 in All Horror Films > Comedy > Slasher

There is something that is so painfully real about Angela Bettis’s portrayal of May.  You could say that there is a little “May” in all of us because May is ambitious, curious, shy (her dominant personality trait), and vengeful.  Bettis also gives what is perhaps the best female performance, ever, within any genre of horror.  Will her performance be as memorable as Jamie Lee Curtis’s roll in the first Halloween?  Probably not…but …

by: AthenaY
Posted on 05.05.10 in All Horror Films > Slasher > Thriller/Suspense

One thing is certain about Judith:  A Halloween Tribute Short Film– the creative voices behind the film are passionate about John Carpenter’s 1978 horror classic. This short film is a labor of love by director/producer/cameraman Josh Hasty and writer Kenny Caperton.  Not only is the unique camera style from the original Halloween replicated, but the entire story is filmed in the same home where the classic film took place.  Judith is meant to offer …

by: Deborah Beech
Posted on 04.29.10 in All Horror Films > Cult/Erotic > Slasher

With all the principles and conventions of a basic slasher film adhered to The Slumber Party Massacre seems on the surface an unremarkable piece of 80’s sub genre culture. However, there is no alluding to the fact that this film was written by prominent feminist and American novelist Rita Mae Brown and directed by feel good writer/director Amy Holden Jones (Mystic Pizza, Indecent Proposal). Consequently my presumptions upon viewing this film were …

by: Obaid K
Posted on 04.24.10 in All Horror Films > Slasher

In his review of Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, film critic Roger Ebert called the film “an immoral and reprehensible piece of trash” for the way it depicted the indiscriminate slaying of teenagers, and added that it sent a nihilistic message to young people (“It’s just mindless bloody violence.”). Since that unintentional plug the series has worked its way into horror movie history and become one of the longest running horror …

by: KFear
Posted on 04.19.10 in All Horror Films > Slasher

Slasher films with no twist are just that….slasher films.  If you decide that your antagonist is going to have a large knife, he better have a motive or a unique back story to his vengefulness.  If you don’t have even the slightest bit of physiological twists and thrills within your hour and a half’s worth of film, you’ll find yourself making another tired ‘ol slasher film.  BUT…if you put some meat on …

by: Dylan
Posted on 04.05.10 in All Horror Films > Slasher > Supernatural

There’s something about killer clowns that seems to repel talent. There has been one killer-clown movie that wasn’t a complete disaster – IT – and it’s arguable whether it even constitutes a “movie” as it really was a miniseries. The rest have been S.I.C.K or Urban Massacre or Fear of Clowns and if you have ever had to watch even a single minute of one of those, you know how agonizingly terrible …

by: KFear
Posted on 03.15.10 in All Horror Films > Comedy > Slasher

Cabin Fever may have created some kind of sickness in the world of mainstream American horror. Eli Roth seems to exploit various groups and cultures with nearly every film he makes, and for one reason or another, other American filmmakers have clung onto the same types of themes and ideas. Call it marketing, but I say it’s Hollywood trying to sell a genre of film, like horror, to the biggest demographic as possible. …

by: Obaid K
Posted on 03.11.10 in All Horror Films > Slasher > Thriller/Suspense

Despite a great premise, Wes Craven’s New Nightmare suffers from poor execution of an intriguing concept and ultimately disappoints. This is basically a “movie-within-a-movie” the story being that Craven (playing himself) is working on a new Nightmare on Elm Street film and is trying to recruit the original actors for the “return of Freddy”.
This sounds like a gimmick that would have worked beautifully in a movie about a killer who stalks you …