Tag: Remote Island

American Gothic a Late 80s Slasher Best Left Forgotten in the Past

October 18, 2022.Reading time 7 minutes.

As the slasher – and horror by default – slowly lost steam by the latter half of the 1980s, plenty of horror titles saw either limited theatrical releases or went straight to video. One of those movies, American Gothic, had the kind of VHS cover art that should have embedded itself on horror fans’ brains. […]

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Humongous: Canadian VHS Slasher Will Grow On You

May 2, 2021.Reading time 7 minutes.

If you’re old enough, Canadian slasher movie Humongous might look familiar. Even if you never saw the movie, you probably caught the VHS cover along the top shelf in the horror section. Yet even at the height of the slasher movie cycle, Humongous didn’t make much of an impression. Its director, Paul Lynch, fared much […]

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