April 14, 2022.Reading time 12 minutes.
And our countdown of the best slasher movies of all time continues. Here, in Part II, we cover Numbers 40 to 31 with movies spanning the early 1970s to the late 2010s. We’ve got a couple of remakes from the 2000s as well as a classic early Giallo, a couple of grimy exploitation 80s slashers, […]
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December 21, 2021.Reading time 6 minutes.
On paper, 2007 horror thriller P2 had a lot going for it. Both its premise and setting promised a nail-biting game of cat-and-mouse. Director Franck Kahlfoun came into the movie – his feature length debut – with lots of promise, And Kahlfoun would go on to direct the very disturbing Maniac remake. Writer and producer […]
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December 3, 2019.Reading time 13 minutes.
Time flies by. Believe it or not, we’ve reached the end of the 2010’s. Arguably, it’s a decade that will likely be remembers as one the best for the horror genre. While found-footage continued to flourish, torture porn faded. Psychological horror and old-fashioned hauntings supplanted grisly dismemberment. We lost legendary filmmakers Wes Craven, Tobe Hooper, […]
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January 9, 2019.Reading time 9 minutes.
William Lustig’s splatter exploitation film, Maniac, remains one of the more controversial horror movies from the 1980’s. It never quite reached the levels of infamy of Silent Night, Deadly Night. Nevertheless, Maniac found its way onto the United Kingdom’s Video Nasties List. Critics have alternately labelled it as tasteless, misogynistic, or both. Among the vast […]
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