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Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood opens with a very cool intro, albeit an unnecessary one. Fading in…
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In a showcase of SFX ingenuity, the resurrection of Frank Cotton is a remarkably repulsive sight of body horror that…
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Clive Barker’s Hellraiser came along at a time when cinematic horror desperately needed to be taken more seriously again, needing…
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The Curse of Frankenstein was Hammer film productions’ first foray into Gothic horror in 1957. With its huge success came…
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Dario Argento’s first and best entry into his Three Mothers Trilogy, his 1977 masterpiece Suspiria, is the quintessential example of…
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Director Paul Lynch’s Humongous was lumped in with all the Canadian slashers that came out during the early ’80s, which…
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Written and directed by British maverick filmmaker Alan Parker and adapted from the novel Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg, Angel…
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The slasher sub-genre really came into its own in the early 1980s; thanks to the film that spawned this franchise,…
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After the phenomenal commercial success of 1980’s Friday the 13th, itself an opportunistic cash-in on the success of the 1978…
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The exploitative sub-genre known as the slasher film is a very basic type of horror rarely challenging its audience. It…
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The American slasher sub-genre of horror was at the peak of its popularity in 1981. It was the Golden Age…