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No desire to get up at 2am and head into a world filled with thousands of bargain hunters who will slit your throat and gouge out your eyeballs in order to snag a new DVD player for 20 bucks? Well fuck that, you don't have to! It's the year 2009 and Black Friday shopping can now be done entirely in the comfort of your own home. And if that's not easy enough for your lazy ass, i've decided to make it even easier for you by hunting down the best horror DVD/Blu-ray deals out there and serving them up to you on a silver goddamn platter. So grab a beer, a leftover turkey leg, and your credit card and pick up some great horror flicks for dirt cheap prices, all without the risk of the last known photograph of yourself ending up on the cover of tommorow's Newsday - the latest victim of another Black Friday skull trampling. Just be sure to act quickly, these deals won't last much longer!
I compared prices all over the net and, not surprisingly, Amazon and Best Buy have gone lower than anyone else this year. Here's the best of what they have to offer.
DVD
Drag Me To Hell - $8.99
Midnight Meat Train - $5.49
My Bloody Valentine 3D - $5.49
True Blood : The Complete First Season - $19.99 (beginning Friday at 8am PST - ending at 12pm PST)
X-Files Complete Seasons - $12.49 each
Blu-ray
Drag Me To Hell - $11.99
My Bloody Valentine 3D - $12.99
DVD
Behind The Mask : The Rise of Leslie Vernon - $3.99
Children of the Corn Special Edition - $3.99
Grace - $4.99
Halloween ('78) - $4.99
Happy Birthday To Me - $4.99
Hellbound : Hellraiser 2 - $3.99
Hellraiser 20th Anniversary Edition - $3.99
Hellraiser Box Set - $19.99
Quarantine - $6.99
Saw V - $3.99
Blu-ray
American Psycho - $7.99
Children of the Corn - $6.99
Dawn of the Dead ('78) - $9.99
Day of the Dead ('85) - $9.99
Devil's Rejects - $7.99
Evil Dead 2 - $9.99
Halloween ('78) - $9.99
Hellraiser - $6.99
Saw - $7.99
Saw 2 - $7.99
Silence of the Lambs - $7.99
As far as in store sales go, if you're willing to head out into the madness early in the morning, Wal-mart and Best Buy are your best bets for getting your hands on some cheap DVD's. I speak from experience, being that I have a yearly tradition of heading out every Black Friday at around 4am. If I pick up any good stuff, i'll make a post on what I got when I return. To all who are joining me in shopping hell, good luck, have fun, and I hope you make it out alive!
HATCHET 2 follows Marybeth as she escapes from the clutches of Victor Crowley, learns the truth about his curse, and heads back into the haunted New Orleans swamp to seek revenge for her family and kill Victor Crowley once and for all...
Adam Green will write and direct. Kane Hodder, Tony Todd, and the makeup effects coordinator from the first one return. The body count is going to be doubled.
'Nuff said.
By the way, speaking of Thanksgiving, be sure to check out the Freddy In Space Hit List to your right for some choice Thanksgiving horror content from my fellow bloggers as well as to watch the Thanksgiving horror classics Home Sweet Home and ThanksKilling RIGHT THIS INSTANT! Also don't forget, the Fright Rags Limited Edition Ladies of the Evil Dead Extreme Edition T-Shirt goes on sale tommorow, Black Friday, and is available exclusively to newsletter subscribers. Click the link in the Hit List to find out all the details and make sure to sign up for the newsletter so you won't miss out!
...(In addition to the usual friends and family and that sorta thing)...
Is you guys. Seriously, all corniness aside, the outpouring of kind words and support in the past week or so since I made that post about my job getting me down and negatively impacting my blogging has been incredible. I completely underestimated you guys when I thought you would lose interest in the blog or stop reading entirely because I wasn't posting as much as I used to. I now realize that my loyal readers are just that, loyal, and will be coming around whether i'm posting as frequently as usual or not. That makes me very happy and makes me feel a whole lot better about the whole thing. So thank you so much to all who commented on that post and offered their support. It means a whole hell of a lot to me, more than I can express with mere words.
I'd also like to give special thanks to two readers/fellow bloggers who went out of their way to send me e-mail's with their support. One of the best things about this whole horror blogging thing is the community of it all and these e-mail's really showed me how tightly knit the community of horror blogging is, despite the fact that most of us have never actually even met in person. So this Thanksgiving, I am also very thankful to be a part of that community.
First off, I got a long and incredibly positive and uplifting e-mail from Zach S. over at Z For Zombies - probably the greatest e-mail I have ever received. I'm not gonna post the whole thing as it's kinda personal and i'm not sure he'd want me posting what he wrote personally to me on here, but I will post one of my favorite excerpts. Zach was talking about how I embrace my horror geekery and how he himself is sometimes mocked by friends and family for his love of zombies and comic books and he said, and I quote - "you seem to wield that geekdom like Conan does a broadsword." I like to think that I do, Zach! This guy rocks, so go check out his blog and become a follower - I insist! Also check out this post in particular, which announces the first ever Z For Zombies contest and Zach even shows off the winnings of a recent prize package he won from Freddy In Space!
The second e-mail I got was from Mike S. over at All Things Horror Online, and he was just as supportive and awesome. So be sure to head over to All Things Horror and become a follower of him too!
Thanks so much to both of you, you've really inspired me and made me remember why I started doing this in the first place. I hope that you guys stick to blogging about horror for many many years to come and wish you continued success. I know neither of you did it to earn cheap plugs, but since you showed your support for me, I had to show my support for you - thus, cheap plugs!
Thank you all and Happy Thanksgiving to you all!
Remember that killer turkey on the loose flick, ThanksKilling, that I was raving about the other day? Well the director of the film has just supplied Freddy In Space with a copy of the DVD and i'm giving one of you guys the opportunity to take it home this Thanksgiving! But before we get to that....
The last contest I had on here, to win the new Natural Born Killers Director's Cut DVD, ended a week or so ago and though I contacted her, the winner never replied to my e-mail with her address. So on the off chance that you're reading this right now, killbillfanatic2005, you won the DVD but I need your address or else I can't ship it out to you! Please drop me an e-mail at mortis45@aol.com when you get the chance and let me know where to send this sucker. If I don't get a reply within the next week or so, i'll have to pick a different winner for the contest.
So who wants to inject a little killer turkey rape into their Thanksgiving this year? Here's all you have to do to snag your very own copy of ThanksKilling - the greatest Thanksgiving horror flick of all time! Leave a comment below with your e-mail address and the title of the horror film that you think is the most appropriate to watch on Thanksgiving. If you're feeling froggy, go ahead and tell me why you chose whatever movie you chose. Contest will run through Thanskgiving day and is open to EVERYONE. Good luck and Happy Thanksgiving to all!
By the way, if you don't want to wait and would like to watch ThanksKilling this Thanksgiving, it's available for instant watch on Netflix!
There are surprisingly very few companies out there churning out quality horror shirts, but those few companies are more than making up for this by putting out some seriously awesome shit. Companies like Fright Rags, Zombie Liquorice, and Mini Cassette, to name just a few, are picking up the slack by creating some amazing original designs and I wanted to show you guys the best of the best. These are not just movie posters slapped onto black t-shirts, these are truly wearable works of art that will make you proud to be a horror fan and even prouder to be a slick walking billboard for your favorite horror flick. Being that it's the holidays and all, maybe this post will give you some ideas as to what to get for any horror fans you might have in your life. Or maybe you'd just like to treat yourself. Either way, here are, in my opinion, the top 10 coolest horror shirts out there! Click the links to see bigger/better images and/or to purchase any of the shirts.
10. ThinkGeek - Ash's S-Mart Uniform Shirt
Many companies have put out S-Mart related shirts through the years, but this one goes above and beyond, making the wearer look like he/she is actually donning Ash's infamous S-Mart uniform - which lets face it, is a dream come true for most of us. This shirt would be the perfect addition to any Ash Halloween costume or the perfect conversation starter/head turner all year round. Wear it loud, wear it proud, and you'll quickly find out by reaction who among you is a Bruce Campbell fan - and by default, who among you is worth getting to know.
9. Mini Cassette - 8-Bit Jason
Anyone who has ever played the incredibly frustrating Friday The 13th NES game will surely have a soft spot in their heart for this image. Anyone who has never played it will have no idea what the hell this shirt is depicting - and that's why I love it. I love insider shirts like this that only a handful of people will get and be able to relate to and in fact, this is one of the first horror shirts I ever bought. Before Mini Cassette was Mini Cassette, they went by the name Nostromo Design and Nostromo single handedly showed a young me that there was hope yet for the horror t-shirt. While everyone else out there was lazily slapping boring poster art on shirts, Nostromo dared to be different and that's something they continue to do to this day. I should note that the original Nostromo version of this shirt was in black and white, whereas this one is in color.
8. Fright Rags - Exorcist
This will mark the first of many Fright Rags appearances on this list, and rightfully so. I've always been a huge fan of their shirts and when I first laid eyes on this one at the Monster Mania convention when it debuted, I immediately fell in love and immediately snatched it up. The vibrant neon colors make this incredible piece of art stand out even more than it already would on its own and i've yet to leave the house wearing it without getting a comment or two. In fact, the same can pretty much be said for all Fright Rags designs - but hold that thought!
7. Zombie Liquorice - Defaced Hoodie
When I originally started planning this list, I envisioned it being ten shirts that were based on specific horror movies - but I had to drop that idea when I realized that such a technicality would take Zombie Liquorice out of the running, which was just plain unacceptable to me. Zombie Liquorice is a Canadian company that is fairly new on my radar and they have pretty much written the book on zombie themed shirts, as far as i'm concerned. 'Defaced' is only the beginning of their gruesome designs and trust me when I tell you, they've got some stuff coming in the near future that is going to blow your collective minds. Keep a close watch on these guys, zombie fans. I must mention that I own this hoodie and not only does it look even more badass in person, but it is comfortable as all hell to boot - much like all of Zombie Liquorice's gear.
6. Fright Rags - Killer Klowns
Killer Klowns From Outer Space is one of my favorite horror flicks of all time and this shirt manages to capture pretty much all of the reasons why I love it - from the freaky clowns, to the popcorn guns, to the cotton candy cocoons. This shirt IS Killer Klowns - albeit in a wearable cotton form - and that's what makes it so kickass.
5. Mini Cassette - Little Ash
See what I mean when I say Mini Cassette dares to be different? While all other companies are throwing pictures of Bruce Campbell on shirts and plastering the words "Evil Dead" above his head, Mini Cassette is turning Bruce into a Lego and putting it on their shirts. Maybe it's just me, but the idea of Ash as a lego is one of the coolest and most creative things i've ever seen. If you dig this shirt as much as I do, be sure to check out MC's whole line of Lego inspired tees. By the way, is it any suprise that such a marketable and iconic dude as Bruce Campbell has popped up twice on this list?
4. Trextshirts - Choptop
I just discovered this shirt on Etsy the other day and while I don't generally dig white shirts, especially when it comes to horror shirts, Choptop totally rocks it. The black image and white background with the blood being the only thing in color is what makes this shirt work so well. Trex also whipped up a really nice (and REALLY creepy) Leatherface shirt, which you can see in the Honorable Mentions section below.
3. Fright Rags - Zombie vs Shark
This is probably my favorite Fright Rags shirt of all time - that is, my favorite that is currently available. The fact that Lucio Fulci pitted a zombie and a shark against one another in his zombie epic was a total stroke of genius and the fact that Fright Rags decided to turn that memorable scene into a shirt was pretty damn genius too. I bought this shirt for a friend of mine at a convention and I can't lie - there were times on the way home from the con where I wanted to scratch the present idea and just keep it for myself! Epic scene, epic shirt.
2. Gallery 88/Alex Pardee - Trick 'r Treat
You've probably never seen this shirt before and that's because it is limited to 125 pieces worldwide and was only made available at an art exhibit in California this past October. Trick 'r Treat director Michael Doughtery worked with artist Alex Pardee to create this shirt and if you act quickly, you can pick it up in a size small or medium at the above link. Hurry though, because I can assure you it will be gone real quickly. It's no secret that I have a deep love for Sam and all things Trick 'r Treat and that combined with the awesomeness of this design make this the second coolest horror shirt i've ever laid eyes on.
And now, get ready to pick your jaw up off the floor.....
1. Fright Rags - Ladies of the Evil Dead Extreme Edition
First off, I cannot urge you enough to click the above link and see this design in all its high res 10 color glory. As cliche as it is to say, the above picture simply does it no justice.
Fright Rags has totally outdone themselves with this design and to say it earns the title of "Extreme Edition" would probably be the understatement of the year. What makes this shirt, being released this Friday, so extreme? Well, just look at it! Aside from the badass-ness of the design itself, this Extreme Edition boasts a plethora of special features, so to speak. Not only does each shirt come with a keepsake trap door collector's box, designed after the famous Evil Dead trap door that leads into the cellar, but each order also comes with an 11"x17" collectible poster signed by the three ladies of The Evil Dead and even a vial of dirt (aka Evil Dirt) dug up from the filming location of the flick! Talk about going above and beyond, eh? The shirt is limited to only 500 pieces and will be made available to newsletter subscribers only this Friday at 10am (EST), for the special price of $49.95. Non newsletter subscribers will have to wait until this Sunday, if there are even any left, and will have to fork over $79.95 - so i'd suggest you sign up for the newsletter right this instant. The stunning design and all the extra goodies make this shirt the coolest horror shirt of all time!
Honorable mentions :
Threadless - Jaws 3D, Nerdoh - Zombieland, Fright Rags - Gremlins (no longer available to buy), Fright Rags - The Gate, Mini Cassette - Mikey's Ride, Zombie Liqourice - Zombie Ice Cream, and Trextshirts - Leatherface.
Even though the official trailer hit the net a couple months back, we still haven't gotten a good clear look at Freddy's new do - that is, until now. Figures.com just posted the first image of NECA's upcoming remake Freddy action figure and though it's only a plastic toy, it's the most we've seen of Haley's Krueger to date. And given NECA's track record of incredibly detailed and accurate likenesses, i'd say this is pretty damn close to seeing the real thing....
For the full image, click HERE
I have been incredibly worried of late about the look of Freddy in this redux - as seen by less than impressive small (and much too dark) glimpses in both screen grabs and the trailer - but he actually looks pretty damn cool here and if this is how he ends up looking in the actual movie, I can't say i'll be at all dissapointed. Also really digging the burnt up and charred Christmas sweater look. For now, i'd say my faith in this flick has been restored a little bit. Thanks, NECA! And a huge thanks also to reader Nathan Stout for bringing this to my attention.
It opens with an extreme close-up shot of a veiny pilgrim tit and ends just over an hour later - but not before a wise cracking killer turkey tomahawks a shitload of people to death, rapes a chick, drives a car, and wears a dude's face. This is the heartwarming family friendly story of ThanksKilling, a rabid turkey on the loose flick that is perhaps the best rabid turkey on the loose flick of all time and dare I say even the best the Thanksgiving horror sub-genre has to offer - although it's not like it's against very stiff competition when it comes to either of these categories. ThanksKilling is an utterly ridiculous movie-watching experience but trust me, if you have an incredibly idiotic sense of humor, like I do, you will fall in love with it and i'm pretty sure you'll be popping it on every Thanksgiving.
But what about THIS Thanksgiving? Even if you order it right now on DVD (for only $11.99, mind you), you probably won't get it in time for Thanksgiving - and what fun is watching a turkey rape people after the holiday has passed? Wait, I take that back, that is ALWAYS fun. But what i'm getting at here is that you probably want to watch this movie on or before THIS Thanksgiving, am I right?
NETFLIX TO THE RESCUE!
ThanksKilling is currently available to watch instantly on Netflix and thanks to the new program they have created, those with a PS3 can even watch it right on their televisions! I really can't think of a better Thanksgiving gift for us all, can you?
If Troma style flicks are your thing, if Blood Freak is a yearly watch in your household, if the promise of a turkey raping and killing human beings gets your rocks off, or if you just need some good old fashioned horror fun injected into your holidays this year, then you will gobble gobble this shit right up, motherfucker!
If you want more Thanksgiving horror, be sure to check out the afformentioned Blood Freak and Home Sweet Home. And of course, don't forget to watch Eli Roth's faux trailer, for the thousandth time!
The first comes courtesy of a reader by the name of Dustin Sain, who noticed something pretty interesting about the posters for Elm Street : Dream Warriors and Zombie 3. Don't know if anyone else has ever noticed this before, but it's the first time it's ever been called to my attention. Note the eyes on both of the posters.
Being that Dream Warriors came first, it looks like the makers of the Zombie 3 poster decided to be lazy and snatch Freddy's eyes for their own poster. Dustin says he overlayed them in Photoshop and they are in fact exactly the same, with the only difference between a slight tweaking of Fred's right eye by the Zombie 3 people. In fact it looks to me like they might have even taken Freddy's whole upper face, and not just the eyes. Either way, it's an interesting little observation.
I mentioned the other day how work is chewing up all my blogging time and this next thing I was sent by a reader who goes by the name Alistair Legrand is probably gonna be chewing up even more blogging time for me. Knowing that i'm a huge fan of horror VHS, Alistair stumbled upon and sent me perhaps the biggest horror VHS collection/collector out there, and it's all documented on YouTube. This guy's channel is full of videos of him going through his entire massive horror VHS collection, as well as showing off his horror toys and even visiting the filming locations of movies like the Friday The 13th's and The Blair Witch Project. Warning : this channel is highly addicting, especially if you're a horror VHS aficianado, so proceed with caution! This dude's passion for horror is infectious.
YouTube - KandJHorrordotcom
Thank you Dustin and thank you Alistair. If any of you guys out there ever find cool little things like these guys did, please send 'em my way!
It's not that I even expected there to be a single laugh amongst Stan Helsing's hour and a half runtime, it's just that I kinda felt an obligation to watch it, being a horror movie fan and blogger. I've seen enough of the current slew of spoof flicks (Date Movie, Disaster Movie, Meet The Spartans, the list goes on and on) to know that the days of Airplane and even Scary Movie are long long gone and Stan Helsing, with its childish 'spoofing' of 20 year old horror movies, is even more confirmation of this fact. How these movies keep getting made is completely beyond me but apparently someone out there with great power and money thinks they're funny, and that concerns me. With its juvenile and incredibly immature sense of humor, or lack thereof, Stan Helsing is one of the least funny movies i've seen all year - and it's a goddamn comedy! I've watched many dramatic films where i've ended up in tears (the sad kind) by the end and yet, there was always at least one or two moments of levity and humor throughout where a good chuckle came out of me. Not so with Stan Helsing. Literally every single 'joke' falls flat and I wouldn't be shocked in the least to discover that the screenwriter had his 10 year old son ghostwrite the script for him.
Now if you shackled me to a chair, rigged jumper cables to my balls, and demanded I tell you one good or funny thing about the movie, i'd probably wind up saying that Kenan Thompson is at least somewhat of a humorous guy. There, you got it out me. But it's the only positive thing whatsoever I can say about anything relating to this movie and remember, I only said it because you threatened thousands of volts of electricity to my privates.
Stan Helsing is honestly one of the stupidest movies I have ever watched and it makes me truly miss the days when Leslie Nielsen was funny and had a respectable career. You should've quit while you were ahead (aka the early 90's), Les. For that matter, the spoof movie should've quit while it was ahead, back in the early 2000's.
If you need further proof as to the stupidity and lameness of this movie, check out the pictures below of how each of the classic horror icons are depicted in the flick!
"Pleatherface"
He's got a handbag on his face, instead of human skin. He's got a leather...face. Get it!? And he doesn't use a chainsaw, he uses a leaf blower! Classic!
"Fweddy"
I guess since Freddy wears a hat similar to one worn by the typical depiction of a "pimp", they decided to turn him into a gold toothed giant clock wearing gangsta? I suppose? By the way, the clock that 'Fweddy' has around his neck is a countdown to sleep time. While it is a funny concept and is humorous to picture Freddy sitting around waiting for bedtime, it's a concept they never bother to explore or suck any humor out of. I guess they thought it was funnier to show 'Fweddy' brushing his gold teeth with the toothbrush that's affixed to his glove.
"Mason"
He wears a hockey jersey...because of his hockey mask...genius! What an original thought! The band-aid might have been funny had it been on the side that Jason got axed in Friday Part 3, as a nice little tie in to the real films, but it's not even on the correct side, so i'm kinda wondering if the director's intention was even to spoof Jason's trademark axe wound or he just thought slapping a band-aid on the mask would be hilarious. I'm gonna go with the latter. I must also mention that 'Mason' is played by Ken Kirzinger, the same dude who portayed Jason Voorhees in Freddy vs Jason. Have you no respect for the historic role you were lucky enough to play, Mr. Kirzinger? You don't see Kane Hodder shitting on the character, do you?
"Lucky"
Rhymes with Chucky, Ha Ha! They depicted the Chucky doll as a human midget with elf shoes and a game of Tic Tac Toe carved into his face! Brilliant!
"Michael Criers"
The whole thing about Michael Myers is that, due to his mask, he had an expressionless face at all times. In Stan Helsing, his mask expression changes depending on how he's feeling! How do they think of this stuff!!! Funny thing is, Mikey has such a small amount of screentime in the movie that I didn't even notice the changing of masks until I went back through it to pull pictures for this post. Note that he also wears a yarmulke. Because yarmulke's are funny.
"Needlehead"
Ahh, I think you guys get the point by now....
When I first started reading up on how to be a successful blogger, over a year ago now, one of the things I always read to never do was call attention to a lack of posting. Reason being, when it comes to blogging, a lack of posting is pretty much death and to constantly be apologizing for, explaining, and calling attention to that lack of posting makes your readers lose faith in you and eventually stop coming around your neck of the woods. Well, there's been a serious lack of posting around here lately and I don't want any of you guys to think it's just laziness or me slacking off or losing interest, so i'm gonna throw that advice out the window and go ahead and call attention to it...
For the first year and three months of my days as a horror blogger, I was jobless. This blog was essentially my only obligation and even though I didn't get paid for it, it pretty much became my entire life. I poured so much time and energy into this thing to make it what it is today, updating three or four times a day (without ever going more than 2 or 3 days without a post), and it didn't even matter that I wasn't getting paid for it. I was doing it because I loved to do it, not because I wanted to turn any profits off of it. But we've all gotta have a job and start to make some money at some point and I knew in the back of my mind that the day I got a normal job, the blog would suffer. And it has. I got a job a few months back and Freddy In Space has not been the same since. I'm lucky if I update a few times a week because lets face it, getting up at 7:30 in the morning and putting in a full day of work at a shitty uninspiring job is not what gets me in the mood to come home and blog about my passions. It gets me in the mood to sleep and sulk, and that's about it. My passions have now taken a back seat to a job I hate and that really bums me out, but that's just the reality of life and this is a reality that I always knew was inevitable. It's also a reality that has just hit me harder than ever being that I was offered press passes to the opening night party of the New York City Horror Film Festival this past Wednesday, but had to turn them down because of my job. Ouch, now that one hurt. But I won't be bitter about it. I had the incredible opportunity to do this for over a year, without a job, and devote all of my time and energy to it and for that I am pretty damn thankful. So, cutting to the chase, is this the end of Freddy In Space?
ABSOLUTELY NOT. Though my hits have dwindled and my spirits have been a bit broken, I will never give up on this blog. It's the one true passion i've got going for me and i'll be damned if i'm gonna let some little minimum wage temporary job take that away from me. I'm not gonna be able to update nearly as much as I used to, but i'm damn sure gonna try my best to bring you guys the same content you've come to enjoy reading over this past year, on as frequent of a basis as I can bring it. Don't lose faith in me and be a little patient, that's all I ask.
All this being said, I can assure you that whatever I end up doing with my life, as far as a career goes, it will be based around horror movies. They're what makes me happy, they're what keeps me going, and the horror world is the world I want to live out the rest of my days in. My biggest fear has always been that my passions and dreams will be thrown by the wayside and replaced with some generic job that I get stuck in, as is the case with 90% of society, and i'm gonna do everything I can to prevent that from happening. It's just not me and i'm just not gonna settle for it. But I digress....
What I was here to say is that i'm not giving up on this blog and that I will never give up on this blog. That being established, lets get back to doing what we've been doing for the past year and a half.
Now if you'll excuse me, i'm gonna go do what I do best - pop open a cold one and get my rocks off on a fucked up horror flick. Once I sober up, maybe i'll jump on here and write up a little review. It's probably the only thing i've ever been real good at doing, so I figure I should probably stick with it.
While i've never been the hugest Sleepaway Camp fan, I do get a kick out of the movies - how can you not love the little girl with the dick and the wildly inventive kill scenes? I'm actually quite surprised that it took me this long to check out the big return of the franchise, but I think that'd have something to do with the outpouring of negativity from my fellow horror bloggers. I decided on a whim to finally pop it in this past weekend and quite frankly, it's a piece of garbage. That being established, when I look back, I can't deny that I kinda had a teeny tiny bit of fun while watching it. Granted I usually have fun with slasher flicks, no matter how bad they are, but I can't rag on Return To Sleepaway Camp all that much given that it really doesn't take itself too seriously and i'm fairly certain the filmmakers sole intention was to make a highly campy and very cheesy slasher flick that would fit right in with the earlier installments in the franchise - mission accomplished. So while Return To Sleepaway Camp is not what I would call a good horror movie, and does kinda lack in creative and gory kill scenes, it's pretty much perfect fodder for a drunken movie night with friends and ya know what? That's good enough for me. Oh, and I can't lie, I marked out for the ending, even if it was predictable.
Now this is what I call a GREAT fucking horror movie, and a completely original horror movie to boot. Two friends head out to the local abandoned insane asylum for a day of drinking and debauchery and they stumble upon a chained up girl in the basement - what ensues is perhaps the most twisted love story of all time and one of the best horror movies of the last several years. This is some seriously dark and disturbing shit that is only for the open minded and for those who can handle some seriously dark and disturbing shit - like dudes fucking dead chicks. What's so incredible about this movie is that behind all the necrophilia and dark subject matter, it truly is a love story at heart - the most perfect combination of love and horror since Let The Right One In. It's movies like Deadgirl that show that there are still people out there with boldy original takes on the genre, and that's something to take comfort in. Don't look it up on IMDb or Wikipedia and spoil anything for yourself, just go rent it and experience the movie for yourself. I can almost guarantee you'll be talking and thinking about it for days afterward.
