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The Slumber Party Massacre
The Slumber Party Massacre is a 1982 slasher film produced and directed by Amy Holden Jones and written by feminist Rita Mae Brown as a parody (her original titles were Don’t Open the Door and...
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Witchboard [updated with Blu-ray release details]
Witchboard is a 1986 American horror film written and directed by Kevin S. Tenney (Night of the Demons, Brain Dead). It stars Tawny Kitaen, Stephen Nichols, Todd Allen and Kathleen Wilhoite. The film...
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Sleepaway Camp
Sleepaway Camp (also marketed on VHS as Nightmare Vacation) is a 1983 slasher horror film written and directed by Robert Hiltzik who also served as executive producer. The film came at a time when...
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Evil Dead Trap
Evil Dead Trap, known in Japan as Shiryō no wana (死霊の罠), is a 1988 Japanese horror film directed by Toshiharu Ikeda and produced by Japan Home Video. Plot: TV show host Nami asks her viewers to send...
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Sphere horror paperbacks [updated]
Sphere horror paperbacks were published in the UK during the 1970s and 1980s. They were hugely popular and many – such as Lust for a Vampire, Blind Terror, The Ghoul, Squirm and Dawn of the Dead – were...
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Emanuele Taglietti (artist)
Emanuele Taglietti (born in Ferrara, January 6, 1943) is an Italian designer, illustrator and painter. Born to an artistic father, Emanuele Taglietti graduated from his local art institute, then moved...
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Night of the Werewolf (Spanish title: El Retorno del Hombre Lobo)
El Retorno del Hombre Lobo (Return of the Wolfman) is a 1981 Spanish horror film that is the ninth in a long series about the werewolf Count Waldemar Daninsky, played by Paul Naschy. It was briefly...
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Parasite
Parasite is a 1982 science fiction horror film produced and directed by Charles Band and starring Demi Moore in her first major film role. Irwin Yablans (Halloween) was the executive producer. In the...
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Blood Rage (aka Nightmare at Shadow Woods)
Blood Rage (aka Nightmare at Shadow Woods) is a 1983 slasher film written by Bruce Rubin and directed by John Grissmer (Scalpel/False Face, 1976). It stars Louise Lasser (Frankenhooker), Mark Soper...
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Video Nasties: The Complete Illustrated Checklist [updated]
This is a historical listing of all films that were deemed to be ‘video nasties’ in the UK. Read the story of the ‘video nasties’ here. When horror films began to be seized by police under the 1959...
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Splatterhouse (1988 arcade game)
Splatterhouse (スプラッターハウス Supurattāhausu) is a 1988 arcade game developed and published by Namco. It is also the title of the entire series of subsequent games released in home console and personal...
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Video Nasty (comic book)
Video Nasty is a six part British comic book series, which began publication in March 2014. The story takes place in 1983, and is a mix of police mystery and horror, set against the back drop of the...
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Prom Night (1980)
Prom Night is a 1980 American/Canadian slasher film directed by Paul Lynch and starring Leslie Nielsen and Jamie Lee Curtis. The original music score was composed by Paul Zaza and Carl Zittrer. The...
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Final Exam
Final Exam is a 1981 American slasher horror film. Director and screenwriter Jimmy Huston apparently wanted to go against the norm and decided to feature little on-screen graphic violence. Still, like...
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Sheer Filth (book)
Sheer Filth is a 2014 book, published by FAB Press and edited by David Flint. It is a ‘remixed and remastered’ version of the original Sheer Filth fanzine that was published between 1987 and 1990....
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Ghanaian film posters
In Ghana, cinema was always popular and most large towns had splendid large cinemas that were left over from the days of British colonialism. Unfortunately, as spare parts for the cinemas’ 35mm...
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Tales of Mystery and Horror (audiobook)
Tales of Horror and Tales of Mystery and Horror are audio books released on cassette in the UK. They feature stories by Edgar Allan Poe, read by Christopher lee. Tales of Horror was first released in...
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Horror Pinball Machines
Pinball machines as we now know them first appeared in the early 1930′s and almost immediately were seized upon as opportunities for branding and cash-ins of all shape and form, from sports to popular...
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Creepshow 2
Creepshow 2 is a 1987 American live-action/animated Horror comedy anthology film directed by Michael Gornick and the sequel to Creepshow. Gornick was George A. Romero’s cinematographer on the original...
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Cataclysm (aka The Nightmare Never Ends)
Cataclysm (aka The Nightmare Never Ends and Satan’s Supper) is a 1980 American-made horror film, starring Cameron Mitchell, Marc Lawrence and Richard Moll. The film was directed by Phillip Marshak...
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