80s, Comedy, Horror?, Slasher

Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (1988)

After years of electroshock and (highly essential) psychiatric treatment Angela Baker, now sporting the new last name Johnson, has been given a clean bill of health by her many doctors and is now officially out of the psych ward. What is one supposed to do when you’re best known as a sexually confused kid who […]

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80s, Child Killers, Games, Horror, Slasher

Sleepaway Camp (1983)

The Baker family has suffered a great tragedy. While boating on the lake one day John Baker and his two children, Angela and Peter, are run down by a wayward ski boat. Jumping ahead eight years we learn that Angela, the lone survivor, has been adopted by her (very) eccentric aunt, Martha. Aunt Martha is […]

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80s, Horror, Slasher

Final Exam (1981)

A small group of students at al North Carolina college are knee deep in the middle of their final exams. Each one of them are busy dealing with their upcoming tests in their own way, doing everything from actually studying for the test, to trying to steal the answers to said test. But what they […]

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80s, Horror, Movies, Slasher, Thriller

Opera (1987)

Opera diva Mara can’t stand working with a bunch of live crows that the director in a new, avant garde production of Macbeth insists on using. She storms out of the theatre and is promptly hit by a car. The theatre contacts her understudy, Betty, to take her place. Betty is great, but she comes […]

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80s, Horror, Monsters, Slasher

Basket Case (1982)

Duane Bradley arrives in New York with little more in his possession beyond a suspiciously large, wicker basket. Duane is clearly an awkward, naive soul. He smiles and engages with strangers, checks into the first motel he can find and, surrounded by seedy looking people, produces a huge wad of cash out of his pocket […]

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80s, Child Killers, Movies, Slasher, Thriller

Daughter of Death (1983)

AKA, Julie Darling Julie Wilding is an atypical teen in a dysfunctional family. She has an unnatural obsession with her father, even brushing off opportunities for dates and outings with friends and classmates in order to spend time with him. On top of that, she seems to be at constant odds with her mother, much […]

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*shrugs*, Child Killers, Horror, Movies, Slasher

Flesh Eating Mothers (1989)

A quiet suburban neighborhood is turned upside down one day when all the nice, normal mothers suddenly start inexplicably deciding that everyone around them looks deliciously yummy. It’s up to a renegade cop, a suspiciously short medical examiner and the all the murderous mothers’ teenage offspring (at least the ones who were smart enough to […]

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70's, Child Killers, Horror, Movies, Slasher, Thriller

Alice, Sweet Alice (1976)

Catherine Spages is preparing for the first communion of her young, popular daughter, Karen, while simultaneously trying to fend off the jealousy the event is causing in her older daughter, Alice. Alice, it turns out, is anything but sweet. She’s an outcast, sullen, has problems at school and is prone to tantrums. So when Karen […]

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80s, Movies, Slasher, Thriller

Dressed to Kill (1980)

Kate Miller seems to have a good life. She’s got a handsome husband and is a loving mother to a kind, brilliant, highly motivated teenage son. Yet she’s also a sexually frustrated housewife who yearns for more passion in her life (don’t we all). After a talk with her therapist, Kate decides to take a […]

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