Tag Archives: Slasher Films

The rave culture that peaked in the early nineties is fertile ground for slasher movies. The plentiful drugs, the casual sex, and the ridiculous clothes all offer more than enough bait for even the most discerning homicidal maniac. Without going ...

The late 1980s were a cornucopia of slasher films, with 1988 and 1989 featuring films that either launched or continued some of the most venerable horror franchises: Hellraiser, Pumpkinhead, Maniac Cop, Child’s Play, Poltergeist, and Return of the Living Dead, ...

Every few years, there are rumblings in genre circles about the potential for a Slasher revival. Ultimately, these turn out to be little more than generated hype around a certain film, or sometimes a string of films, which generally end ...

One of Italian horror maestro Mario Bava’s most influential films, Ecologia del delitto aka Twitch of the Death Nerve aka Bay of Blood (1971) helped kick off the slasher genre, though it is now often ignored in favor of Halloween (1978), ...