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A door creaks, a shadow lurks in the dark, a scream is heard next door. All these circumstances sound familiar to you? Adam Rockoff examines all these scenarios in Going To Pieces. Kiran Aditham recommends you lock your doors and windows for this one...
GOING TO PIECES: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SLASHER FILM BY ADAM ROCKOFF McFarland Publishers Despite their longtime notoriety and scrutiny from conservatives the world over, horror films have continually endured in multiple forms. While too vast to explain generally, their various offshoots allow ...
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400 years in the future, and the forefather of mass homicide has barely lost a step in his slashing. Jason Voorhees returns for the ninth time, but in space. Only this time, the dimwitted victims have better sense of fashion and nicer weapons. Kiran Aditham gives it a stab.
... from us in the audience reacting to how over-the-top ridiculous this film really is. Yes, horror fiends, our favorite (actually, only) hockey-masked slasher himself, Jason Voorhees, has returned for an unprecedented NINTH time. Like Hellraiser and Leprechaun before it, the creative team behind this ...
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October 1998 :: Print :: The Videohound's Horror Show (David Lee Beowülf)
... would not be putting out all the shit they've been throughout the `80's and '90s. I would have been in charge and I'd definitely not gone the "slasher" route. My films would concentrate on the supernatural and would have been genuinely scary. OK, maybe I'm giving myself too much credit, but, see, the ...
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Rephormula (Earache). Review by Daniel Mitchell.
... guitars and treble-laden drums, and "Greynesses Grow Already Old," which features a lovely grand piano intro, sounds as if it were stripped from a slasher movie soundtrack. The best thing about this disc is its length. Over 75 minutes of black metal fun, you'll be able to get through a goodly number ...
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March 1998 :: Ink Spots :: Gitane Demone (Matthew Moyer)
by Matthew Moyer When faced with an artist as influential and eclectic as Gitane Demone, the traditional "interview intro piece" becomes a crisis of confidence. Where to begin? What do I say? We could start with those two magic words in the Goth world -- Christian Death. Gitane played keyboards for ...
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Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Dark Star). Review by Matthew Moyer.
... me aesthetically of the High Voltage soundtrack. Back in the days when big hair and androgynous screeches -- I'm talking about the bands, not the slasher victims -- dominated B-movie music. There's so much pure gold on this record that I'm just gonna ignore the uninspiring and blah moments. Accentuate ...
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Murder stalks an exclusive girls' school in this 1968 Italian murder mystery. Carl F Gauze does his mentor Joe Bob Briggs proud.
... lamp and the light of the door she entered. She's dead by the next scene. What lurks in the background is the sense that this is one of the early slasher flicks - attractive women in isolation, dying one by one. The blood and explicit gore is missing, but the twist ending IS a surprise. The disk is ...
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Shelton Hull finds much to praise in Jodie Foster's latest film. Consider it the anti-Hostel.
... ; its themes of justice and retribution are off-putting critics whose time, presumably, is better-spent extolling the virtues of whatever noxious slasher flick is currently in theatres. The contradiction is stark, and the popular reaction speaks directly to the film’s pressing relevance. To read the ...
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Flesh Eaters,No Questions Asked,Atavistic,Terry Eagan
... of punk, but recast it in an idiom drawn from the Catholicism of LA’s Spanish heritage and coupled it with dense imagery, replete with a horror and slasher film themes. On this reissue, the original Flesh Eaters' release, No Questions Asked , is here in its entirety, along with a host of tracks from ...
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