The wait is now over! We are now shipping our Don’t Go to the Reunion DVDs! The reviews have been incredible for our first slasher feature and we want to share the slasher love with you awesome horror fans. Make sure to click on the link below to order your very own copy today. We plan to share the horror love all over the world. Remember, these are region free dvds with exclusive extras you won’t find anywhere else.
The special features are tentative as followed:
* Audio Commentary with the filmmakers
* Trailer
* Blooper Reel
* “Class of 2004” Yearbook
* Audition Reels
* Mini Poster
* Slasher Studios short films (Teddy, Popularity Killer, Blood Brothers)
Plot synopsis:
Scott Rantzen (Brady Simenson) is a horror movie loving misfit who is teased by the popular students in school. When a date with the very popular and very beautiful Erica Carpenter (Stephanie Leigh Rose) backfires, he feels as though his life is ruined. Ten years later, the gang reunite for their class reunion. Little do they know that someone is waiting for them and ready to see that they pay for what they did. Is Scott back for revenge and will the old gang survive to tell the tale? It’ll be more gore for Class of 04.
Available in a Special Edition DVD pack or Combo pack with t-shirt.
On this week’s episode of Slasher Studios Podcast, our hosts Kevin Sommerfield and Steve Goltz will be discussing their least favorite final girls in horror. Final girls that may have made it to the end but should have been given a bloody death. Show starts at 10PM central. Listen in live to find out who made the cut.
Not Quite Horror contains reviews of films not traditionally considered horror films. By analyzing them as horror films (identifying the monster, discussing the shared worry for the audience and the main characters, and understanding the depth of horror available to the viewer), who knows? There’s more than one way to watch a movie.
“Spring Breakers” (2013)
The Monster: Spring Break itself. The collegiate tradition of breaking societal taboos somewhere in the south is well known. The event is spoken of, in the film, with hushed and reverential tones. The world before spring break is bland, dim, and must be escaped.
In this film, spring break starts with a few drinks, leads into drugs, and ends up spattered in blood and full of bullet holes.
The Horror: In reality, spring break combines hormones, developing brains, and limited experience offer plenty of opportunities for horrific disasters. The teens in Spring Breakers push the envelope of violence even further.
The movie mixes this violence with societal images of being a girl – pink clothes, Britney Spears songs, loud giggling, and even the presence of actor Selena Gomez. This societal construct of femininity contrasts with the gritty violence the film devolves into, making viewers uncomfortable as they are forced to re-examine their own belief systems.
The Shared Fate: Scare films are nothing new. However, with more permissive censorship guidelines for television and film (and with the wild freedoms of the internet), it’s getting harder to shock audiences with whatever debauchery the youth is (allegedly) up to at the moment.
Spring Breakers does the best it can to scare everyday people by pushing things further, suggesting the world has moved into utter chaos and won’t come back. Or, as Alien (James Franco) repeats – “Spring break forever.â€
On a brand new Slasher Studios Podcast, our hosts Kevin Sommerfield and Steve Goltz will be discussing horror sequels that should have received a better reaction from critics and fans…but didn’t. Show starts at 10PM central so don’t miss the bloody fun.
Not Quite Horror contains reviews of films not traditionally considered horror films. By analyzing them as horror films (identifying the monster, discussing the shared worry for the audience and the main characters, and understanding the depth of horror available to the viewer), who knows? There’s more than one way to watch a movie.
Muppet Babies (1984-1991)
The Monster: The Nanny. She towers over the babies she watches from such a height her face is never seen. Only her striped tights make her identifiable. She may have a knack for saving the day when the children’s imaginary play becomes too scary, but she always leaves them plenty of room to get scared again.
The Horror: A child’s imagination is an amazing thing, but it swings exactly as far into the disturbing as it does into the joyful. For every unicorn there is also an ogre.
The Nanny, as a trained professional, ought to be aware of exactly how many terrifying places those children can go in their imaginations. Yet she seals them in room where their nightmares can grow and grow.
She must sit back in a chair when she hears those Muppet Babies screaming, smiling quietly to herself.
The Shared Fate: The amnesia of adulthood protects us from our turbulent childhood imaginations. However, children are all around us. We laugh and coo at their fear because we’re no longer held captive by our imaginations.
And for them? The fear is very real, and we’re nothing more than a pair of absent striped tights to a child whose imagination has very real fangs.
After being called to a grisly crime scene, Officer Frank Williams (Steven Vidler), loses his his partner and his arm to Jacob Goodnight (Glen “Kane†Jacobs), only to then gun him down. Four years later, Williams is assigned to guard a group of young delinquents including Christine (Christina Vidal), Kira (Samantha Noble), Zoe (Rachael Taylor), and Michael (Luke Pegler) while they are assigned to clean up an old hotel as part of their sentence. It’s not too long after their arrival that group starts getting killed off one-by-one. Williams then makes the discovery that Jacob Goodnight has returned and is back for bloody vengeance.
See No Evil was a box office bomb despite having well-known WWE wrestler Kane as it’s villain and it’s biggest promoter. I’m not a fan of wrestling at all, so I wasn’t seeing it for Kane. But obviously as a huge fan of the slasher genre, I was really excited for this one. Although I personally thought it was fun movie, I can really understand the backlash it gets. The characters are extremely unlikeable, there’s nothing really scary about it, and the killer isn’t anything noteworthy or special. However, I do think the movie has some really great death scenes, including one involving a cellphone. The acting isn’t terrible, but nothing great. I also thought it was interestingly filmed, it has this really gritty feel to it with a lot of flash cuts (granted probably more than it really needed). And although having unlikeable characters is a no-no with horror films, I think it works here because of the fact that these are delinquents we’re dealing with, and we could care less if they die or not. Even though they try to make some of the characters likeable, there is just nothing special enough about them for audiences to care. So in a nutshell, See No Evil is style over substance.
BUT, for great kills, interesting filming style, and decent enough acting I give it…
As many of you know, we at Slasher Studios have been hard at work this last year on our very first feature, Don’t Go to the Reunion. With a release date just weeks away, we are thrilled to share with you slasher fans some reviews we have received for our slasher. We couldn’t be more thrilled with the positive word of mouth. If you’ve seen it and dug what you saw, make sure to head over to the film’s IMDB page and give it a rating and/or a review if you would be so kind. Here are some of the reviews we have received thus far.
“The work of Goltz and Sommerfield will be a pleasure to watch in the future as their passion radiates in each shot of this film, lending to the sense that everybody was on board to get bloody, have fun and make a memorable, freaky and occasionally hilarious slasher romp. I’m not sure if I’ll go to my 10-year high school reunion next year, but “Don’t Go to the Reunion†is one event that you should definitely not skip!”
“The direction is tight and the script is top notch. Cinematographer Paul Bjorge delivers some highly effective and pretty inventive camera work (cool tracking shots, ace angles, beautiful static shots), the synth-driven score is excellently atmospheric, the kills are all badass and the gore looks simply ace. Oh, and there’s even some nice nudity! *yay*”
“Wow. What a true love letter to the sub genre. The movie is absolutely rife with slasher movie references and fun nods. For example, check out the characters names; how about the bullied kid Scott Rantzen (Slaugher High?) or our lead girl Erica Carpenter (Halloween?) or even fun and spunky Megan Cunningham (Friday 13th?). The hat tipping is just everywhere covering films such as Prom Night, Night School, Madman and many more. I just loved how this film was both a slasher flick in its own bloody right and also a total homage to the films Steve and Kevin adore the most.”
“I loved Don’t Go to the Reunion. It turned out to be everything I hoped for and more, the perfect tribute to 80′s slashers. It has plenty of humor, a good helping of blood, and a great plot and twist ending. There’s been a lot of buzz around Slasher Studios ever since Teddy, and with their first full-length release they prove to deliver exactly what slasher fans want. So if you’re among those of us that are tired of found-footage, haunting movies, and other bland modern horror films, Don’t Go to the Reunion is the breath of fresh air you’re looking for. I can’t wait to see where they go from here.”
“I loved the sense of praise to the slasher genre this film incorporated. The kills, the atmosphere, the writing it all screamed 80s slasher classics like Prom Night, Terror Train, Final Exam, Scream, Madman, Happy Birthday To Me, Iced, Night School, the list just goes on.”
“If you’re sick of remakes, sequels, and overused found footage horror Hollywood is spitting at you, check out this great film that shows the slasher subgenre is still very much alive.”
Thank you to everyone who has submitted a review for the film so far! This movie is for the slasher fans and we are thrilled beyond belief that you guys are loving this!
If you haven’t yet preordered your copy, here’s your chance. DVDs will be shipping at the end of the month and have some awesome exclusive features including a filmmakers commentary and all three of our previous horror shorts.
Not Quite Horror contains reviews of films not traditionally considered horror films. By analyzing them as horror films (identifying the monster, discussing the shared worry for the audience and the main characters, and understanding the depth of horror available to the viewer), who knows? There’s more than one way to watch a movie.
The Goonies (1985)
The Monsters: One-Eyed Willie. Willie plundered ships to increase his wealth for years and, when trapped, he refused to surrender. Instead, he sealed his ship and his fortune in cave. Then, he laid down traps so diabolical they could fit into the Saw series.
Willie’s commitment to hoarding ran so deep he rigged his ship to sail away if someone actually made their way past his traps.
The Horror: Willie’s greed is astonishing, and it leads him to leave dangerous booby-traps around his lair.
Young Mikey (Sean Astin) is motivated to claim Willie’s gold by the altruistic desire to save the houses of his family and friends, and so he forces his underage pals through traumatic ordeals.
With just one misstep, Goonies would have been filled with children’s spines snapped by large rocks, heads smashed into hard rock floors, and faces bloated from drowning. Even Willie, with his one eye, had to have been aware innocent children could trigger his devices. And still, he left them behind as his legacy.
The Shared Fate: Step into the dog crap someone didn’t pick up or find an unexplained dent on your car and you’ve suffered because someone was not able to consider others when acting. And you got off easy, too.
Most people don’t leave pirate traps around, but they do sabotage property and relationships to fulfill their own needs. Just like a greedy pirate, they don’t care who stumbles into the nasty surprise they’ve created.
Tuesday Knight, star of “A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master†teams with fellow actress Kim Kopf, star of “Zig Zag†and “Witchcraft 8: Salems Ghost†to form Apple Road Films. Their first film slated for production is the horror/ thriller, “Delusional†which was written by Kopf. Horror is a genre that both actresses know a lot about and they are very excited to get back to their roots.
Knight and Kopf have had successful careers in television and movies. They are long time friends who worked together on the thriller, “The Theory of the Leisure Classâ€. “I am excited to be working again with my great friendâ€, says Kopf. “It seems like only yesterday that she was so excited to get the role of Kristen in “A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Masterâ€. “We have been great fans of each others work for years†says Knight.
Not only are Knight and Kopf reuniting, but they are also drawing from their talented friends to join the cast of “Delusionalâ€. Lisa Wilcox, a friend of Knights, and star of “A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child†is set to star along with Kopf’s friend Tracy Brooks Swope, star of “Inner Sanctum 2†and “The Big Pictureâ€. Swope is also on board as one of the films Producers, along with Executive Producers Cammie Pavesic and Gary Winterholler of “The Sanguinarianâ€.
“Delusional†is about an asylum run by Dr. Miranda Simms (played by Kopf) who is using the mental patients, headed by Mia Miller (played by Knight) to test the unsuspecting girls with an experimental drug. The project begins filming in Sacramento in August and will be released by Apple Road Films in time for the Halloween season.
“We can’t wait to share this film with our fans†says Knight.
