Toolbox Murders (2004)
In an act of cultural cannibalism, Tobe Hooper remakes 1978 video nasty The Toolbox Murders which was itself a ripoff of Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Talk about scraping the […]
Tag Archives: slasher
My Little Eye
There’s a horror sub-genre that exploits the latest game/gameshow fads, recent examples being last year’s Escape Room, the Apprentice-style Exam or the downright horrific Starter For 10. So while we […]
Prom Night (2008)
Having run out of decent slasher flicks to remake in the noughties (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Black “X-Mas”), Hollywood started scraping the barrel for properties that weren’t even […]
April Fool’s Day
No holiday could pass the 1980s without being memorialised in the form of a slasher movie, be it Christmas Evil, My Bloody Valentine or Bloody New Year. This became untenable in the […]
Jason X
Jason Voorhees (Kane Hodder) goes to space in the 10th Friday the 13th movie, which they should have called Jason and the Astronauts. Sending your characters into space is a […]
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
Released a whole 4 years after Jason Takes Manhattan, Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday is yet another misleading title since a) he doesn’t and b) it isn’t. From the […]
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later is one of the world’s clumsiest titles, not least because the movie has nothing to do with water so it’s not even a pun. This […]
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
When last we saw Shatner-faced babysitter-botherer Michael Myers, he was being sprung from jail by a mysterious Man in Black. 6 years later we (and the producers) discover that this […]
Video Nasty 67: The Toolbox Murders
Set around a spate of tool-based killings in an LA apartment block, 1978 slasher The Toolbox Murders is a film too dull to bother banning or even talking about, but they […]
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
The only Friday the 13th film to share its subtitle with a Muppet movie, 1989’s Jason Takes Manhattan opens with a canoodling couple boating on Crystal Lake. Just as the horny […]
