There are horror films that creep up on you, and then there are horror films that stare you dead in the face through the viewfinder of a camera. Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom is one of the latter: a film so unnerving, so ahead of its time, that it destroyed Powell’s career, and only later was…
Tag: Slasher Film
New Year’s Evil (1980) – Review
There are plenty of holiday-themed horror movies out there from Bob Clark’s Black Christmas to John Carpenter’s Halloween to the lesser and cheaper-looking entries like Jack Frost, but what if they made a horror film that was wall-to-wall new wave and punk music, a film that followed the machinations of a serial killer during the…
Bloody Birthday (1980) – Review
When it comes to slasher films one of the more popular hooks is to attach your carnage around a particular day on the calendar, Halloween, Friday the 13th and My Bloody Valentine to name but a few, yet there are only so many specific dates to choose from – I’m still waiting for a horror…
Jack Frost (1997) – Review
It should be made clear that at no point, in this movie, does Michael Keaton come back to life as a snowman to reconnect with his son, that is a completely different movie, though horrifying in its own right, while the film we will be looking at today is a low-budget slasher flick that came…
My Bloody Valentine (1981) – Review
Back in the early 80s, the increasing popularity of slasher films like Halloween and Friday the 13th was hard to ignore and the impact it was having on the industry was undeniable, with a slew of menacing figures stalking your local cinemas, even those up in the Great White North took notice of this phenomenon,…