Forget about the 2006 version, THIS movie is where the terror really started. It’s time for Christmas break, and the sorority sisters make plans for the holiday, but the strange anonymous phone calls are beginning to put them on edge. When Clare disappears, they contact the police, who don’t express much concern. Meanwhile Jess is planning to get an abortion, but boyfriend Peter is very much against it. The police finally begin to get concerned when a 13-year-old girl is found dead in the park. They set up a wiretap to the sorority house, but will they be in time to prevent a sorority girl attrition problem?

“Black Christmas” is that rare horror movie that gets everything right. This is a movie that just oozes atmosphere. Every frame is dripping with dread and setting the film on the Christmas just adds to the excitement of it all. Not only this but the film is also scary as hell with some excellent performances and an ending that is sure to give every horror fan chills. What is the most incredible aspect of this groundbreaking slasher film? Throughout the entire film, we see various sorority girls getting hacked to death and receiving strange telephone calls. What we don’t see is our psycho, Billy. No motive, no reason, no face, no man..Billy could be anyone of us. If that doesn’t make a true psycho, I really don’t know what does.

“Black Christmas” is quite simply the best horror movie I’ve ever seen. Some give the credit to “Halloween” to being the first real American slasher film but that simply is not fair. “Black Christmas” did it first and did it better. It is the grandmother of the slasher film, four years before “Halloween”. “Black Christmas’” power is impossible to deny; its characters are compelling, the imagery poignant, and the acting top-notch. If you haven’t seen it yet, you are in for one scary “Christmas” treat.

To order: Black Christmas (Special Edition)

David Hess, best known to horror fans as “Krug Stillo” in Wes Craven’s infamous debut “The Last House on the Left”, and star of “House on the Edge of the Park” and “Swamp Thing”, has passed away today. He was 69.

His children updated his Facebook page today with the following statement:
“It is with great sadness that we have said our last goodbyes to our beloved dad and friend to all. David passed away peacefully last night. The Mad Hessian lives on in his family, friends, and all of his devoted fans. Sing a song in celebration of his life.”

More information forthcoming as details are released.

Last year, I decided to test myself and watch a horror movie every night for the entire month of October. By the end, I was a little dazed and disoriented but came out of the experiment just fine and was ready to do the whole thing all over again. With only a few days until October officially starts, I have posted my list below of the horror films that I will watch every day for the entire month. Nothing says fall like leaves changing color and blood splattered slasher movies. For every movie that I have not yet reviewed, I will post a new review for that film either that night or the next morning. Well, my fellow slasher fans, here is my list:

October 1st-Scream
October 2nd-Scream 2
October 3rd-Scream 3
October 4th-Scream 4 (Release Date)
October 5th-Slumber Party Massacre
October 6th-Slumber Party Massacre 2
October 7th-Slumber Party Massacre 3
October 8th-The People Under the Stairs
October 9th-Deadly Friend
October 10th-The Burning
October 11th-Friday the 13th (1980)
October 12th-Mother’s Day
October 13th-The Convent
October 14th-Pumpkinhead
October 15th-Night of the Demons
October 16th-Sleepaway Camp
October 17th-Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers
October 18th-Sleepaway Camp 3: Teenage Wasteland
October 19th-Silent Night Deadly Night
October 20th-Black Christmas (1974)
October 21st-Black Christmas (2005)
October 22nd-Blood Sisters
October 23rd-Halloween (1978)
October 24th-Halloween (2007)
October 25th-Curtains
October 26th-Puppet Master
October 27th-Dolls
October 28th-Child’s Play
October 29th-Creepshow
October 30th-Creepshow II
October 31st-Trick r Treat

Some series just won’t die, no matter how much you beg them to. Dimension Extreme’s “Children of the Corn: Genesis”, the eighth film in the franchise that stems from the Stephen king story, is now on VOD/DVD/Blu-ray and in limited release (Does one theater for one day count as limited release?).

Directed by Joel Soisson and starring Barbara Nedeljakova, Billy Drago, and Kelen Coleman, “Tim and Allie seek shelter in a remote desert compound after becoming lost and stranded. A strange Manson-like character, Preacher, reluctantly allows them inside with strict orders to be gone by morning and not wander “where you are not invited.” At first, Preacher and his mail-order wife Oksana deny the faint screams and cries that emanate from one of the crumbling outbuildings. When Allie sneaks outside to investigate, she discovers that she and Tim have stumbled onto a bizarre cult worshiping an entity that may – or may not – dwell inside a haunted little boy.”

Nonetheless, the reviews have been surprisingly solid for this late edition to the series so maybe there is still some fun to be had. To order “Children Of The Corn: Genesis” from Amazon: Children Of The Corn: Genesis

Is it the end for Freddy? Brad Fuller, executive producer at Platinum Dunes took some time over the weekend to share some exclusive updates on the upcoming sequel to the “Nightmare on Elm Street” remake. The remake opened last spring to bad reviews but a solid, if unspectacular, box office take of $63M. Despite various other rumors, Fuller says that at this time there are no plans for a sequel tweeting;

“Lots of rumors out there. I want to set the record straight on freddy and Jason. First, let’s talk Jason. Shannon and Swift wrote a great script. We are ready to go, when new line is ready. But as of yet, they are not ready. As for Freddy, as far as I know, there isn’t even talk of writing another script.”

So it looks like we might have some new Jason coming our way the near future but it appears that Freddy is dead and buried…for now.

This certainly has not been a good year for fans of Rated R horror. After “Scream 4” grossed just $39 million in April (to put that into perspective, many box office analysts that it would make that much opening weekend), “Final Destination 5” opened last weekend to just $18 million (roughly $9 million less than FD4), and now “Fright Night” has become the latest victim. “Fright Night” opened this weekend to just $7.9 million on a budget of $18 million. You can just see the eager journalists coming up with a great headline. “Fright Night” fails to make a bite at the box office” “Fright Night” sucks life out of box office”, etc. The general public reaction seems to be “who cares?”. With three strong Rated R horror films bombing in the last months, where is horror going to go in the future? If it’s PG-13 and supernatural, I give up right now. Where do you think horror is headed in the future? Why do you think the latest crop of horror movies bombed at the box office? Leave your comments

We here at Slasher Studios have a love for Chopping Mall that runs deep. You can check out our review here to know all of the juicy bits that we love about this movie and why we believe it is an underrated masterpiece of a slasher flick. Nonetheless, that being said, we are pleased to bring you our slasher death of the day. It’s a hilarious mock-up of the laser to the head ultimate death of the film. Slasher fans enjoy and hopefully this will cure your Monday afternoon blues.

Let’s be honest, in the horror world is there anyone out there that is cooler than Joe Bob Briggs? He’s smart, he’s funny, he’s an avid horror fan, and he just wants to make you laugh. If only there were more people in the horror world like him. He’s pretty much some sort of amazing.

Joe Bob Briggs’s acting persona is that of an unapologetic and unrefined redneck and male chauvinist with an avowed love of the drive-in theatre. He specializes in humorous but appreciative reviews of b-movies and cult films, which he calls drive-in movies (as distinguished from “indoor bullstuff”). In addition to his usual parody of urbane, high-brow movie criticism, his columns characteristically include colorful tales of woman-troubles and high-spirited brushes with the law, tales which inevitably conclude with his rush to catch a movie at a local drive-in, usually with female companionship. The reviews typically end with a brief rating of the “high points” of the movie in question, including the types of action (represented by nouns naming objects used in fight scenes suffixed with -fu), the number of bodies, number of female breasts bared, the notional number of pints of blood spilled, and for appropriately untoward movies a “vomit meter”. A typical such concluding paragraph would be, “No dead bodies. One hundred seventeen breasts. Multiple aardvarking. Lap dancing. Cage dancing. Convenience-store dancing. Blindfold aardvarking. Blind-MAN aardvarking. Lesbo Fu. Pool cue-fu. Drive-In Academy Award nominations for Tane McClure. Joe Bob says check it out.” “Aardvarking” is Brigg’s euphemism for sexual intercourse.

From 1995 to 2000, he hosted “Monstervision” for TNT. The show often featured Briggs giving a monologue about certain things in life, including his four ex-wives (usually “Wanda Bodeine”). He often made fun of the “scissoring” (editing) of the films, saying “Has Ted (Turner) been crackin’ down on us again?” This led to a famous running gag during a Halloween marathon of Friday the 13th movies in which strange occurrences kept happening throughout the night, leading up to Joe Bob realizing that it was Ted Turner trying to kill him, the final scene of the event led to Joe Bob giving an impassioned apology to Turner, claiming he was an amazing person, before the video feed cut off eerily. A similar stunt was staged in Blair Witch-themed host segments for a marathon showing of Carrie, Child’s Play and Phantasm one night, with the host mysteriously missing. For Super Bowl Sunday in 1997, he hosted a 16-hour marathon of monster movies from New Orleans starting with The Omen.

This week at Slasher Studios, we salute you Joe Bob Briggs and we hope that you come back to “tear the heart out of Saturday night”.