Retro Reviews

It’s the weekend of April Fool’s Day, 1986 and your friend, Muffy, invites you to a party she’s throwing on a remote island along with a group of your closest college buddies. Aren’t you just dying to go? Such is the premise for the 1986 ‘slasher’ film April Fool’s Day. …

I have honestly been scouring streaming apps and was lucky to find The Man In The White Van. Although it didn’t sound interesting at first, I let my judgment go wild, and it didn’t let me down. The story is creepy enough, being filmed in the dark, in a remote …

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice arrived with enormous expectations and just as much baggage. Behind the scenes, it was a film caught between bold creative ambition and a studio unsure how far it was willing to go. In hindsight, that tension is baked into every frame. It’s a movie …

I remember hearing about Hatchet a few months before it came out and I thought that it sounded awesome. I couldn’t wait to see it because it sounded like it had some good old school 80s slasher flick vibes to it, so I went and bought a copy of it …

An Homage to Giallo’s Greatest Hits Directed by Davide Melini, Deep Shock takes you into the kind of fever dream that feels half memory and half nightmare. This short film opens as a beautifully unsettling dive into grief, memory, and the giallo tradition itself. What at first seems like a …

As a kid, I remember seeing Corey Wolfe’s awesome VHS box art for director Jim Wynorski’s 1986 film, Chopping Mall, at the numerous visits my family paid to various mom and pop rental shops. Along with Maniac (1980), it’s the art I remember most from that timeframe as I was …

When I was around 8 or 9, I was scanning the horror section at the video store. The case for Day of the Dead, stood out like a sore thumb for me. I was sold just on the cover art and had to have this. Then I learned there were …

While many regard it as an incoherent entry to the series, Hellraiser: Bloodline is quite the entertaining little gem. On March 8, 2026, this installment turned 30. Previous Hellraiser films focused on the humans, their desires, and their flaws. Hellraiser: Bloodline focuses on the demons, Hell’s rules, and Hell’s history. That …

Anyone who reads my articles regularly knows how I feel about 80’s slashers. Maniac won me over a long time ago, in my childhood, even. Also, most of you also know, I started watching horror movies at way too young an age. It molded me into who I am today. …

SOV director Bret McCormick (The Abomination) was churning out product for VHS rental at a pretty decent clip in the 1990’s. Some of his output is hit-or-miss, and he wore his influences on his sleeve, but for fans of the campy & cheap, but ambitious, this is the stuff! Wildeye’s …