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Famine is kind of a slasher flick, but it’s not. It’s also kind of a splatter movie, but it’s not. You might compare it to a rape/revenge film but there’s no rape. I guess you could say it’s something right in between. The actors are quite bad, but that’s to be expected. The story is ok I guess, and the script does what it’s supposed to do – except… There are sexual tensions throughout the...
In Easter Bunny Kill! Kill! Remington claims that Mindy is his true love in life but he’s obviously a grafter luring his way into the family for whatever reason. Mindy also has a son, sixteen years old with Easter as his favorite holiday. Actually, the kid is somewhat retarded and cannot really cope with reality. His greatest hero in life is his father and the Easter Bunny. When he gets a rabbit from a complete...
Don’t Look was sold in, to be a slasher with a twist. It was also made a point on that it was directed by a woman. I don’t really see the relevance of that. A film doesn’t get better, or worse, on the gender of the person directing it. Not in my mind. A good movie is a good movie and gender has nothing to do with it. But I did like the cover art...
Fear Pharm is a crossover between a classic slasher and a hillbilly flick like Wrong Turn. That is to say that the victims don’t find the place where they are being hunted by accident. They are very well aware of where they are. Sort of. They know the place they have traveled to as a place where huge mazes are being made in the corn fields and that the employees there are meant to scare...
If you liked Terrifier, you’re gonna like Terrifier 2 as well. Hands down, this is a brutal slasher. It has lots of gore and a whole lot of humor in it too. It’s kind of like Funny Games. Not that it comes up to those standards of social commentary. No, but the way the acting is carried out. Michael Haneke said about Funny Games that the perpetrators are playing in a comedy, whilst the victims...
Terrifier is a horror film that brings us back to the golden era of slashers. Or at least to a time when slasher kills were fun and inventive. The kills are fun and brutal as well as witty and brutal. The clown – Art the Clown is a perfect killer as his mask is the clown’s makeup. So, there’s a masked killer in Terrifier. It was a long time since I saw a masked killer...
Karusell translates to Carousel in English. It’s set in this famous Swedish amusement park Liseberg. Of course, I can’t be sure that every single shot is filmed there but it seems so. I, myself haven’t been there for numerous years but I feel like I recognize some of the environment. In any case, it looks very believable. It’s set at night as the plot takes us to a Halloween special VIP night. There are only...
I actually never saw create your killer before. But now that I found it on Bloody Fierce Prouctions youtube channel I couldn’t resist. It’s about what you can expect. It’s funny and witty but doesn’t have a dense plot. But in 7 or 8 minutes long so there’s really not much time to develop anything anyway. But what’s created in those short minutes is really all you need. You get a killer story with all...
I wasn’t really educated enough when I first saw Death Ship in 1980. I thought that the cover art was more or less stolen to the much newer horror flick Ghost Ship. It took me a while to realize that Ghost Ship is actually more or less a remake of Death Ship. I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me but it just didn’t. It’s so obvious now. Of course, the cover art alone...
Ok, so when the original Scream came out in 1996 I was twenty-six years old. That makes me older in 2022 when Scream came out again. I wasn’t too impressed by the original movie but all these years later, would I like this new take on the classic? It’s a really good question. I think that the way I view movies these days are a bit different. Back then I was disappointed that the movie...
I really commend 88 Films for bringing these cult slashers to the public. It’s also obvious that the genre existed before John Carpenter made it famous in 1978 with his masterpiece Halloween. In this case, there might not be a masked killer and this is not a ‘boogeyman’ flick. I think those came later with franchises like Friday the 13th and Halloween. It is about an unknown killer though and no one is safe. Drive-In...
The fun thing about slasher collections is that there’s always one or two that aren’t really up to par with the best of the genre. Scalps is such a movie. I don’t really understand what they thought about conceiving this. It’s a movie that goes all over the place, it contains all of the necessary elements for a slasher but it never delivers the goods properly. It’s bloody, there is a campfire and ghost stories...
