Obviously, Halloween gets plenty of horror movies with Christmas doing surprisingly well, too. There’s the Leprechaun franchise for St. Patrick’s Day, My Bloody Valentine for Valentine’s Day, Uncle Sam for the Fourth of July, and now we have a real Thanksgiving horror movie. Though there are Easter-themed horror movies, they’re few and far between. And […]
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By the late 1980s, the slasher had lost most of its box office drawing power. Outside of the major slasher franchises – which were digging into their later sequels – most slashers were dropping straight onto video store shelves. For every April Fool’s Day or Maniac Cop, the subgenre produced a few Cheerleader Camp’s, Nail […]
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When Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s double-bill feature Grindhouse released in 2007, it fared poorly at the box office. Perhaps it’s a bit ironic then that the faux-trailers on the double-bill inspired more successful box office ventures. Machete went on to nearly triple its production value. Okay, Hobo With a Shotgun was a small Canadian […]
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Welcome to everyone’s least favourite fake holiday – Valentine’s Day. During the golden era of the slasher, studios gave just about every calendar holiday the movie treatment. Even April Fool’s Day was treated to a horror movie adaptation. When Wes Craven turned the subgenre on its head with Scream he inadvertently re-ignited a brief slasher-lite renaissance. Over the next few years, several […]
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