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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Movies, Slasher

Slumber Party Massacre (1982)

High school senior, Trish, is planning a private party at her house for her teammate friends while her parents are out of town. Unfortunately for them (and other members of the populace), a local psycho has just escaped the confines of his cell and he’s got his heart set on crashing their little shindig. Par…tay? […]

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