Tag: Slasher

Pickaxe (2014) – By Baron Craze

May 30, 2020
Film Reviews

One can’t deny that the true horror franchises dominated in the late 70s and well into the 80s, especially due the popularity of the slasher genre namely with Halloween [1978] and then of course Friday the 13th [1980], although a close relative to these films comes from the subgenre of horror comedies and parodies, such…

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Cut! (2014) – By Baron Craze

April 30, 2020
Archived Reviews

Director David Rountree with the assistance of screenwriter of David Banks present a smart slasher horror flick to the masses once more, in fact this team used many traits and inspiration of thick layered conceptual plots of the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, thereby creating not a mindless slashing flick rather a thought provoking concept….

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Final Exam (1981) – By Baron Craze

April 30, 2020
Archived Reviews

Very quickly the horror genre switched the gears into producing massacres on screen at the rate of an assembly line all thanks to incredible success of  John Carpenter’s Halloween [1978], tons of copycats (a few rip-offs) flooded the market, and later with explosion of VHS and furthermore DVD more slasher formulaic became a worn-out standardization…

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My Bloody Valentine (1981) – By Baron Craze

February 29, 2020
Film Reviews

At a time when the slasher genre began its carnage of blood spraying fun in the early eighties, one film garnished the ranks as the most over-looked and underrated, with it taking a holiday largely avoided, and prime territory for director George Mihalka (The Psychic [1991]) to stake his first directorial horror claim. The most…

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Graduation Day (1981) – By Baron Craze

February 29, 2020
Film Reviews

Everyone in the horror genre, knows of the impact and the glorious years where “slasher movies” reigned as king, an easy money-maker at the box office, fueling wars with the MPAA and while 2020 will mark the 40th-annivrersdary for many of the classics such as Friday the 13th, Prom Night, Terror Train and countless others,…

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Slasher App *Updated*

January 7, 2020
Horror News

Slasher Now Accepting Beyond RED Trailers   Slasher is putting the call out for Red Band trailers and beyond.   They are a true alternative media solution for horror filmmakers, as they strongly support those ‘R’ Rated movies that sometimes get lost in the shuffle.   When filmmakers are out marketing their films and get roadblocked by…

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Fender Bender (2016) – By Baron Craze

December 31, 2019
Archived Reviews

Sometimes one sees a film that definitely isn’t straight-up horror, and doesn’t contain excessive violence and gore, and fits more into a thriller which appears on the surface as a made for television, but Fender Bender works at many times as a fun flick. The director and writer Mark Pavia, known for his film The…

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The Prowler (1981) – By Baron Craze

November 30, 2019
Film Reviews

It’s likely that if one were asking any horror fan when was the heyday of the glorious gore slasher cycle they excitedly announced the eighties, to be more precise it’s the early 80s. Shortly after both Halloween [1978] and Friday the 13th [1980] releases, the floodgates opened the blood splattering countless slashers flicks all following…

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New Year’s Evil (1980) – By Baron Craze

November 30, 2019
Film Reviews

As is common with the horror genre the holidays get horror films related to them, Halloween obviously Halloween (1978), Christmas (Black Christmas [1974]), and Valentine’s Day (My Bloody Valentine [1981]), just to name a few, and therefore New Year’s Eve, finally got into the mix in 1981, with this flick that is very dated and…

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Mr. Hush (2010) – By Baron Craze

November 30, 2019
Archived Reviews

In the horror genre, many horror sub-genres exist, some provides gore and others using paranormal tricks evolving more into the found footage realm, however, it’s when a movie returns to narrative form, and nestles into the b-movie genre, everything feels comfortable especially when a movie centers itself on the holiday of Halloween. Screenwriter and director…

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