The Prowler (1981)
In 1945, a spurned soldier kills his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend at her graduation dance. 35 years later, the town holds its first graduation ball since that fateful night, […]
Tag Archives: 1981
Video Nasty 24: The House by the Cemetery
A New York family (Paolo Malco, Catriona MacColl and Giovanni Frezza) moves into a derelict New England house with a tombstone in the living room and a cannibal in the […]
An American Werewolf in London
American pals (David Naughton and Griffin Dunne) become pedigree chums after getting lost on the Yorkshire Moors under a full moon. John Landis’ horror/comedy crossbreed is best remembered for its […]
Friday the 13th Parts 1-3
Having rewatched the first three Friday the 13th films on the eponymous, inauspicious occasion, here is another stab at reviewing these classic slashers (and Friday the 13th Part 3). Friday […]
Video Nasty 9: The Burning
Five years after being burned in a prank gone wrong, a disfigured summer camp caretaker called Cropsy (Lou David) takes his revenge at a camp near an abandoned mine, thankfully […]
Bloody Financial New Year
Happy Financial New Year’s Eve, perhaps the only holiday without a slasher movie named after it; potentially a gap in the market for a genre that covers everything from Bloody […]
Video Nasty 51: The Evil Dead
Ashley (Bruce Campbell) and his friends take a trip to an evil cabin, home to the Book of the Dead which, when read aloud, unleashes the biggest shitstorm since Simon […]
Halloween & Halloween II
Halloween (1978) was not the first holiday-themed slasher movie, but its success triggered a slew of identikit festival fright flicks called things like April Fool’s Day, Silent Night Deadly Night and […]
Video Nasty 11: Cannibal Ferox
1981 Italian nasty Cannibal Ferox (which could be the name of an American news anchor, like Wolf Blitzer) follows an academic (Lorraine De Selle) who heads into the Amazon to […]
Vincent
In this one man play, Leonard Nimoy plays Theo Van Gogh giving a talk to an audience in the week after his brother Vincent’s death at the age of 37. […]
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