80s, Horror, Slasher, Thriller

A Blade In The Dark (1983)

AKA: La Casa Con La Scala Nel Buio Musician Bruno is doing a score for an upcoming horror film. His director is notoriously secretive about the endings of her films, and as this is Bruno’s first time scoring a horror movie, she wants him to be able to capture the right mood. So the studio […]

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80s, Dance Dance Dance, Horror, Slasher, Thriller

Killer Workout (1987)

We open on a young woman named Valerie, a model who has just learned that she’s set to appear on the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine. Valerie is trilled. But her agent (manager?) has told the magazine she’s got a hell of a tan, so she rushes off to the nearest spa for a little late-night tanning session. But something goes horribly wrong (gasp!), the machine malfunctions and she ends up fried to a crisp.

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80s, Horror, Slasher

The Mutilator (1984)

AKA Fall Break Poor Ed Jr. has a troubling past. When he was but a wee lad, a gun-cleaning mishap with his father’s rifle resulted in him accidentally shooting his mother in the back. After that his father, Big Ed, was never the same. Fast forward a few years and Ed Jr. is now in […]

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70's, Comedy, Horror, Horror?, Slasher

Theatre of Blood (1973)

Edward Lionheart, a classically trained actor, takes sinister revenge on the guild of critics whose reviews savaged him, causing him to loose the Best Actor of the Year award to a young upstart. He’s going to make them pay, damn it. And he’s going to do it via the most relevant and horrible theatrical device […]

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Horror, Modern, Slasher, Thriller

I Know Who Killed Me (2007)

I Know Who Killed Me is about a young student named Aubrey Fleming. She’s a small town girl living a peaceful little life until the day she gets abducted by a creepy killer who likes to wear blue. Miraculously, unlike the unfortunate previous victim, Aubrey turns up alive and well, minus a couple of appendages. […]

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Horror, Modern, Slasher, Thriller

I Saw The Devil (2011)

I Saw The Devil is about a serial killer who abducts and butchers women. Except, he made a very bad choice in choosing his last victim. After receiving the news of her death the woman’s fiancé is most thoroughly pissed and tracks the killer’s ass down in order to get sweet, sweet revenge by going […]

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Demons, Ghosts, Horror, Modern, Slasher, Supernatural

Dark Vision (2015)

I don’t know about “Rise.” It’s more of a saunter, really. The Dark Vision internet Hub has set up a streaming online competition. Five teams compete in a paranormal competition, streaming their activities to the masses who will vote to choose the winner. The winner’s prize? Their very own series. Host Spencer Knights is one […]

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Horror, Slasher

The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014)

One good write-up deserves another, so why not just jump right in to this quasi-remake, shall we? Over 60 years after the events depicted in the first film, the masked Phantom had returned to stalk and kill people in poor, little Texarkana. Huh, this looks familiar… After leaving a showing of The Town That Dreaded […]

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70's, Comedy, Horror, Slasher, Uncategorized

The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)

Yet another gift from TCM. Their little “TCM Underground” (which technically doesn’t exist anymore even though they keep showing ‘cult classics’ in the same time slot) movies bring me such unexpected joy. Anyway, The Town That Dreaded Sundown follows the local sheriff’s department and a Texas Ranger as they try to discover who’s been terrorizing […]

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