Tag: Slasher
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…
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
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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
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…
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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