This slasher movie starts in the most obvious seting for a film of this ilk- a campfire! We hear of Madman Marz who was a vile man by all accounts. Abusive to his family until he decides to kill them with an axe. He then casually goes to his local tavern to have a drink …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween- Day 28- Madman (1981)
A prelude shows a prank in which a socially awkward and sexually inexperienced student is lured into having his first sexual encounter. What he doesn't know is that the woman waiting for him in bed is actually a corpse stolen by medical students. On discovering this, Kenny becomes unhinged and is rightly traumatised. Three years …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween- Day 20- Terror Train (1980)
This 1980 slasher movie concerns a jilted lover who kills his ex prior to her wedding day. He's now been released from prison and intends on repeating history as he's after a soon-to-be bride. The film borrows heavily from Halloween (the piano score, the autumnal street shots etc etc) and even the title card for …
Healthy horny idiots go camping in the woods (I know, an alien scenario for a slasher film!) The woods they go to were the location of a bloodbath decades earlier as someone from a gypsy camp was falsely accused of rape by a female member of the townsfolk. The townsfolk burnt down the gypsy settlement …
Continue reading Day 29-31 Days of Halloween- The Prey (1983)
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