Tag: Slasher

Posted in Movie Review Verdict: 2.5

Hellraiser: Hellworld (2005)

Well, I didn’t see this one coming. Since Hellraiser made the straight-to-video jump in 2000, each entry in the series has featured a climactic…

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Scream Retrospective

With the new Scream television series already renewed for a second season, it seem unlikely Sidney (Neve Campbell), Gale (Courteney Cox), and Dewey (David Arquette) will return to the big screen anytime soon. Bob Weinstein has even

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Posted in Movie Review Verdict: 3.5

Freddy Vs Jason (2003)

Forget Alien Vs Predator (2004) and its hateful sequel. This is how you make a proper monster mash. A full decade in the making,…

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Posted in Movie Review Verdict: 4.0

A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child (1989)

Scary movies went through an odd phase in the late eighties. With horror cinema teetering on the edge of mainstream, producers became so eager…

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Posted in Movie Review Verdict: 3.5

A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985)

Fans of the series often criticise A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge for sticking out like a sore thumb, but I…

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Posted in Movie Review Verdict: 5.0

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

I owe my love of horror to A Nightmare on Elm Street. Often credited for introducing the fantastic to slasher cinema, Wes Craven’s 1984…

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Posted in Movie Review Verdict: 1.0

Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)

I’ll grant this much to the sixth instalment of A Nightmare on Elm Street: the perfunctory sequel does what it says on the tin….

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DE Podcast: A Brief History of Gore – Slashers

A Halloween special seven days late! Pam hasn’t yet returned from vacation, so Nick, Dennis, and Dimitri turn their Halloween get-together into an impromptu podcasting session, resuming a project

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Posted in Movie Review Verdict: 2.5

Prom Night (1980)

If you threw Halloween (1978), Carrie (1976), and Black Christmas (1974) into a blender and then dropped a great big bucket of tar into…

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Prom Night Retrospective

In honour of Kimberly Peirce’s upcoming Carrie remake, I thought I’d tackle a series steeped in high school horror and that most sinister of teenage traditions

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