With the 1980s heading towards their close, many felt the slasher genre had begun to outstay its welcome. Halloween had come first, but the […]
Donald Henry Pleasence was born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire on the 5th of October, 1919. His acting career began with a placement at the Jersey […]
With its predecessor, Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers having detonated at the box office like the dampest of squibs in 1989, producer […]
Friday the 13th, the film many consider the first of the ‘slasher’ movies, was released on the 9th of May, 1980. Directed by Sean […]
Independent horror movie White Zombie was released on the 4th of August, 1932. The film was directed by Victor Halperin, and produced by his brother Edward, […]
With the unprecedented success of 1978’s indie shocker Halloween, executive producer Moustapha Akkad naturally wanted more. A reasonably reluctant John Carpenter and Debra Hill […]
When John Carpenter and Debra Hill unleashed their classic prototype of the slasher movie, Halloween, on an unsuspecting audience in 1978, cinemagoers didn’t quite […]