Tag: slasher
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Blood Feast (1963)
Described as the worst horror film he’s ever seen by Stephen King, Blood Feast is a notorious 1963 splatter film by celebrated schlockmeister and “godfather of gore” Herschell Gordon Lewis. I say “celebrated”. He’s discussed and referenced fondly by artists who cut their teeth on the sort of pulp trash that Lewis made his name…
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Tenebrae (1982)
One of director Dario Argento’s most renowned giallo films, 1982’s Tenebrae (Italian for “darkness”) is a murder mystery set in Rome and following an American suspense novelist called Peter Neal (Anthony Franciosa) as he’s stalked by a serial killer whose crimes appear to be inspired by Neal’s latest book, titled Tenebrae. Argento’s frequent collaborator Daria…
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Saw II (2005)
Here’s a question: what city do the Saw films take place in? According to Google, it’s New Jersey, but I ask because, more than how he makes the traps, I’m wondering how The Jigsaw Killer finds the real estate necessary to enact his schemes while police never seem to be in the right place at…
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Saw (2004)
For a long time, the Saw franchise has been a large, bloody gap in my moviegoing experience. They started coming out when I was a teenager and although I was familiar with Roger Ebert’s review of the first, if only for his idea that a thriller could end with the killer getting crushed by a…
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Evil Dead Rise (2023)
“Mommy’s with the maggots now…” I just saw Evil Dead Rise and loved it. As an example of its genre and what it’s trying to accomplish as a commercial product, it’s pretty perfect. It was refreshing to see a new Evil Dead movie that absolutely gets what such a film is and how it works.…
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Dark Glasses (2022)
Released both theatrically and to streaming in 2022, Dark Glasses is Italian horror maestro Dario Argento’s first directorial work in 10 years, preceded by 2012’s infamous Cannes Film Festival disaster Dracula 3D. It’s an improvement over some of his more recent work, which isn’t saying much. Dark Glasses is more what you’d expect from a…
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Prom Night (1980)
This is a slasher film to make you appreciate both the fine artistic craft of the original Halloween and A Nightmare on Elm Street, and the crude efficiency of the Friday the 13th sequels. Heck, even the original Friday the 13th wasn’t this dull. I’d be interested to see the 2008 reboot of Prom Night…
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When a Stranger Calls (1979)
There’s a quote on the poster for When a Stranger Calls that describes it as the most terrifying film the critic’s ever seen. What film they saw I can’t say, but I’d be shocked if it was the same one I did. We begin with Carol Kane playing a babysitter for a doctor and his…
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