Tag: A Nightmare on Elm Street

31 Days of Spoooktacular: The Remade

Between 2007 and 2010, all three of the major slasher icons were featured in reboots of the old movies. Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers stalked the silver screen again in "fresh" "re-imaginings" of the old movies. Halloween came first, followed shortly by Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street. The idea that … Continue reading 31 Days of Spoooktacular: The Remade →

Slashed

Perhaps the most tasteless and least artistically driven of all horror films are slasher films (ignoring the new torture genre, because I refuse to acknowledge it). The very premise (killer kills people) is not the headiest point to start from, but there have been worthwhile whacks at the genre. Psycho is a proto-slasher movie, the one who … Continue reading Slashed →