Tag: slasher
REVIEW: American Horror Story – Season 9, Episode 1, “Camp Redwood”
Well, folks, it’s September, and that means it’s time for a new season of FX’s smash hit anthology series American Horror Story! If you watch TV or use the internet at all, you’ve likely seen the ads for this season, 1984, featuring a slasher theme. AHS has always gone to great lengths to ac...
Read MoreREVIEW: Halloween (2018)
Halloween (2018) takes place 40 years after the original film, completely wiping the slate clean of any sequels or over-complications. The Shape has been incarcerated ever since that fateful Halloween night in 1978, until he breaks out of a transport bus and heads to Haddonfield to wreak havoc. Litt...
Read MoreREVIEW: Hell Fest (2018)
A traveling horror park, a group of friends looking for scares, and a merciless killer stalking them; this is the very simple setup for Hell Fest. I’ll admit that it was an intriguing one. I’ve always loved those kinds of horror festivals and mazes, and the concept of someone disguising themselv...
Read MoreHell Fest Gets a New Red-Band Trailer
A little while back, the first trailer for Hell Fest hit the web, and I think it underwhelmed the majority of us. I’ve wanted a resurgence in the slasher subgenre of horror for a while now, and that first trailer definitely didn’t help. Well, today we got the second one, a NSFW, blood-s...
Read MoreREVIEW: Friday the 13th (1980)
Friday the 13th is one of the seminal horror franchises, among the ranks of Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Unlike those three, however, Friday’s first film differs from the rest of the series. First off, let’s talk about the story. In the 1950’s a boy drowns...
Read MoreWhat I’ve Been Playing: Friday the 13th: The Game
I’d classify myself as a Friday the 13th fan, albeit a casual one. I’ve always been more of a Freddy guy, but my friend Scott got me into the franchise late in my horror film-watching life. He showed me Parts 4-6, and it converted me, even if Part 5 wasn’t the best. But when I heard … ...
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