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THE JOHN SAXON PROJECT
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Beverly Hills Cop III – 1994 / Director: John Landis
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From Dusk til Dawn – 1996 / Director: Robert Rodriguez
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John Saxon is on the Telephone
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Tenebrae – 1982 / Director: Dario Argento
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Queen of Blood – 1966 / Director: Curtis Harrington
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SLASHER Archive
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Satan’s Blade – 1984 / Director: L. Scott Castillo Jr.
When it comes to disposable Slasher movies, they don’t appear to come much more throwaway than Satan’s Blade. Regularly referred to online as a “Mama and Papa” Video Store obscurity,…
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The Forest – 1982 / Director: Donald M. Jones
Though The Forest was released around the heyday of the Slasher Boon of the early ‘80s, this film is barely a slasher, much less a scary one. Nevertheless, it is…
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Halloween 2 – 2009 / Director: Rob Zombie
Michael Myers is fucking DEAD!! Building upon the foundations of films such as Mario Bava’s Bay of Blood , John Carpenter’s Halloween effectively set the template for the ‘stalk and…
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Welcome to Spring Break – 1988 / Director: Umberto Lenzi
Welcome to Spring Break. The annual migration of the idiot… When it comes to the late 80′s wave of pointless and grubby Slasher Movies, Umberto Lenzi‘s Welcome to Spring Break…
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Don’t Go In The Woods -1981 / Director: James Bryon
Never, NEVER go into the woods alone… As a British institution, the Video Nasties are a concept that was still significant even to generations like mine, for myself an enticing…
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Faceless – 1987 / Director: Jess Franco
Go to Ingrid’s room, and do whatever she wants I made the mistake of watching this pedestrian rubbish on a Friday night, after a hard week at work, an arduous…
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Bloody Moon – 1981 / Director: Jess Franco
Avoid references to that unfortunate night. He might not be cured Bloody Hell! When it comes to sheer bloody mindedness, Jess Franco‘s outre Euro-tinged interpretation of the typical Yankee Slasher,…
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Silent Night, Deadly Night – 1984 / Director: Charles E. Sellier Jr
Christmas just isn’t Christmas without annual screenings of festive slasher films, and what better way to kick off some yuletide spirit then with a viewing of Christmas cult classic Silent…
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The Flesh and Blood Show – 1972 / Director: Pete Walker
With incredibly thick applications of both sex and violence, The Flesh and Blood Show may well be the perfect Pete Walker film. It is highly ridiculous and hugely enjoyable. Camper…
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Prom Night – 1980 / Director: Paul Lynch
Prom Night. That one night in the school calendar year that allows us to all let our hair down, wear dresses that we think we look hot in and bring…
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Bloody Birthday – 1981 / Director: Ed Hunt
The kids are definitely not alright in Ed Hunt’s classic Bloody Birthday. Here we have the inevitable next step in the anniversary / holiday themed terror picture, an American tradition in…
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Wes Craven’s New Nightmare – 1994 / Director: Wes Craven
Talk about a great idea. Get the most memorable of the 80s horror icons, and have him come to life and terrorize the actors from the film. That’s the basic…
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Rosemary’s Killer (aka The Prowler) – 1981 / Director: Joseph Zito
It’s hard not to be slightly dismissive of a genre as repetitive and predictable as the slasher film. You have your good films (or classics as they will undoubtedly be…
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Friday the 13th – Barry Abrams, Point of View and Gender Ambiguity
note – this article is the first of three that attempt to reconsider the much maligned series of Friday the 13th films in context of the American Horror Film, their…
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Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 – 1987 / Director: Lee Harry
I love Silent Night, Deadly Night. It is an annual fixture of my Christmas holidays, usually double billed with Bob Clark‘s fantastic Black Christmas. One thing that has eluded me…
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A Bay of Blood – 1971 / Director: Mario Bava
A Bay of Blood came near the end of Mario Bava’s career, an Italian director of highly stylized horror, comedy, action movies, and most significantly, several gialli, whose work is…
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Camping del Terrore – 1987 / Director: Ruggero Deodato
At first glance, there doesn’t seem much going for Body Count. The title is derivative, the cover art is lame, and the whole thing is obviously a cash in on the stalk…