Horror trends ebb and flow, but slashers never truly go out of style.
Take the recently debuted trailer for the upcoming A24 horror movie MaXXXine, for example. There’s something oddly comforting about the slasher subgenre, beholden to its rules and its commitment to racking up an impressive body count, that we just can’t get enough of. So, this week’s streaming picks belong to one of the most beloved subgenres of horror.
Only this time, because the slasher subgenre is vast and endless with no shortage of hidden gems, we’re highlighting five underseen slashers you may not have watched yet.
Here’s where you can stream them this week.
For more Stay Home, Watch Horror picks, click here.
Death Spa – AMC+, Plex, Shudder, Tubi, Vudu
Also known as Witch Bitch in Europe, this wacky ‘80s slasher movie takes aim at the decade’s fitness craze in the most entertaining way.
Take the recently debuted trailer for the upcoming A24 horror movie MaXXXine, for example. There’s something oddly comforting about the slasher subgenre, beholden to its rules and its commitment to racking up an impressive body count, that we just can’t get enough of. So, this week’s streaming picks belong to one of the most beloved subgenres of horror.
Only this time, because the slasher subgenre is vast and endless with no shortage of hidden gems, we’re highlighting five underseen slashers you may not have watched yet.
Here’s where you can stream them this week.
For more Stay Home, Watch Horror picks, click here.
Death Spa – AMC+, Plex, Shudder, Tubi, Vudu
Also known as Witch Bitch in Europe, this wacky ‘80s slasher movie takes aim at the decade’s fitness craze in the most entertaining way.
- 4/8/2024
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
With Halloween approaching quickly, we have one final round of home media releases headed our way this week in case you’re looking to pick up some last-minute films to check out this spooky season. Blue Underground is releasing Daughters of Darkness in 4K this Tuesday, and Severin Films is keeping busy with an array of titles, including The Black Cat, Patrick Still Lives, and Shock Treatment.
Vinegar Syndrome also has quite the lineup of films coming home this week, including Grave Robbers, Memorial Valley Massacre, Zombie 5: Killing Birds, and several Amityville sequels. Arrow Video is also showing some love to both Cold Light of Day and The Last Starfighter, and if you’re a big fan of The Monster Squad, you’ll definitely want to check out the Wolfman’s Got Nards documentary.
Other releases for October 27th include Scary Tales, Spine Chiller, Weedjies: Halloweed Night, Attack of the Unknown,...
Vinegar Syndrome also has quite the lineup of films coming home this week, including Grave Robbers, Memorial Valley Massacre, Zombie 5: Killing Birds, and several Amityville sequels. Arrow Video is also showing some love to both Cold Light of Day and The Last Starfighter, and if you’re a big fan of The Monster Squad, you’ll definitely want to check out the Wolfman’s Got Nards documentary.
Other releases for October 27th include Scary Tales, Spine Chiller, Weedjies: Halloweed Night, Attack of the Unknown,...
- 10/26/2020
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
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By Todd Garbarini
Vinegar Syndrome is the name of a phenomenon that occurs in motion picture film when reels of film are poorly stored in hot and humid conditions. The hallmarks of this unfortunate and inevitable fate to motion picture film consist of physical degradation of celluloid precipitated by the film development process and indifferent/poor film storage – such as film stored on rusted metal reels – all resulting in film bearing the faint or strong smell of vinegar. The film can become very brittle, suffer from shrinkage and/or take on a contorted shape making it nearly impossible to run through a projector. In short, the only way to arrest the process is to make pristine duplicates of the film’s original camera negative following the developing stage and store them in climate-controlled conditions. As one can well imagine, however, this type of...
By Todd Garbarini
Vinegar Syndrome is the name of a phenomenon that occurs in motion picture film when reels of film are poorly stored in hot and humid conditions. The hallmarks of this unfortunate and inevitable fate to motion picture film consist of physical degradation of celluloid precipitated by the film development process and indifferent/poor film storage – such as film stored on rusted metal reels – all resulting in film bearing the faint or strong smell of vinegar. The film can become very brittle, suffer from shrinkage and/or take on a contorted shape making it nearly impossible to run through a projector. In short, the only way to arrest the process is to make pristine duplicates of the film’s original camera negative following the developing stage and store them in climate-controlled conditions. As one can well imagine, however, this type of...
- 10/15/2020
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Ed Wood’s 1959 masterwork Plan 9 From Outer Space is nowhere near the worst movie ever made, as anyone who’s seen it might testify. What can be said about it? It defied any traditional movie-making conventions and does it without any shame whatsoever. Wood had to have the cast baptized in order to make this bizarre film, and that’s the least strange thing about it. The original title Grave Robbers from Outer Spacewas later ditched, but Criswell mentions it during the intro nevertheless.
Plan 9 was promoted as “almost starring Bela Lugosi” because he died before the film could even get finished, and the footage of Lugosi from this film was originally filmed by Wood to be included as a part of his movie The Ghoul On The Moon, which never got made, so Wood just shoehorned those scenes (which just involve Lugosi walking around with a cane...
Plan 9 was promoted as “almost starring Bela Lugosi” because he died before the film could even get finished, and the footage of Lugosi from this film was originally filmed by Wood to be included as a part of his movie The Ghoul On The Moon, which never got made, so Wood just shoehorned those scenes (which just involve Lugosi walking around with a cane...
- 11/25/2015
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
No, the title isn’t a typo or an oxymoron. As much as I love a great, well-made movie, there’s a darker part of me that almost loves a bad movie more — but not just any bad movie. It has to be so bad, it’s enjoyable to sit through and mock, a la the classic ’90s television show Mystery Science Theater 3000 (or MST3K for short). In other words, it has to be so bad, it’s good.
Maybe it’s the pure, perverted thrill of schadenfreude (thanks Germany for creating that word!), or maybe it’s the strange high you get after seeing a car crash — that “Thank-God-it-wasn’t-me” feeling – and however you try to explain it, there’s a good reason these movies are on this list. Here then, are 6 of the Best Worst Movies. I picked one from each decade, starting from the ’50s on up…...
Maybe it’s the pure, perverted thrill of schadenfreude (thanks Germany for creating that word!), or maybe it’s the strange high you get after seeing a car crash — that “Thank-God-it-wasn’t-me” feeling – and however you try to explain it, there’s a good reason these movies are on this list. Here then, are 6 of the Best Worst Movies. I picked one from each decade, starting from the ’50s on up…...
- 8/29/2013
- by Michael Perone
- Obsessed with Film
Tim Burton and Johnny Depp make the world's worst director look charming, despite some historical fact-bending
Director: Tim Burton
Entertainment grade: A–
History grade: B+
Edward D Wood Jr made low-budget Hollywood films in the 1950s, including Jail Bait, Night of the Ghouls and Plan 9 From Outer Space. In 1980, Plan 9 was voted the worst film of all time in the Golden Turkey awards. Wood was posthumously voted worst director.
Talent
It's 1953, and aspiring film-maker Eddie Wood (Johnny Depp) is thrilled to hear that a producer is filming the story of a famous transsexual. The reason? Wood himself loves wearing women's clothes, particularly angora sweaters. He pitches himself as writing, directing and starring – "just like Orson Welles did in Citizen Kane". The result – Glen or Glenda? – fell slightly short of the critical acclaim bestowed upon Welles's movie. The New York Times said "It isn't quite a camp classic, although...
Director: Tim Burton
Entertainment grade: A–
History grade: B+
Edward D Wood Jr made low-budget Hollywood films in the 1950s, including Jail Bait, Night of the Ghouls and Plan 9 From Outer Space. In 1980, Plan 9 was voted the worst film of all time in the Golden Turkey awards. Wood was posthumously voted worst director.
Talent
It's 1953, and aspiring film-maker Eddie Wood (Johnny Depp) is thrilled to hear that a producer is filming the story of a famous transsexual. The reason? Wood himself loves wearing women's clothes, particularly angora sweaters. He pitches himself as writing, directing and starring – "just like Orson Welles did in Citizen Kane". The result – Glen or Glenda? – fell slightly short of the critical acclaim bestowed upon Welles's movie. The New York Times said "It isn't quite a camp classic, although...
- 11/17/2011
- by Alex von Tunzelmann
- The Guardian - Film News
Grave robbers have hit the burial site where Slipknot bassist Paul Gray was laid to rest back in May -- taking two cherished statues -- but now the rest of the band is on a mission to get the stuff back. The band posted a message on their website saying, "There were statues of a gargoyle as well as a Buddah that were placed at Paul’s grave by his friends and family that were taken.
- 11/10/2010
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
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