Now that Halloween is over it’s time to shift gears and change things up around here to cover christm… who am I kidding. Everyday is Halloween at SoCreepy HQ!

I don’t know if this is a reflection of my current mental state or me just reminiscing about the “good ‘ol days” of horror. You know, back when the blood wasn’t CG, there was no comedy in our horror and there were “real” (latex) body parts flying all over the place. That’s right creeps, I’ve been on a slasher flick streak as of late. Now this is NOT a “best of” list. This is just what I’ve been watching and I think you should be too!

Here’s what’s been in my playlist lately:

• Hatchet
  A group goes on a swamp tour and falls victim to the disfigured and deranged Victor Crowley.
  This one is a recent horror film that is an awesome throwback to slasher flicks of the ’80s. No CGI effects in this guy and Robert Englund makes an appearance.
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• A Nightmare On Elm Street
  In the dreams of his victims, a spectral child murderer stalks the children of the members of the lynch mob that killed him.

  This one is the original, not that POS remake Hollywood made. Which is why I HAD to rewatch this one. I had to cleanse my eyes and ears of that dreaded remake. I’ve had many friends argue with me, but to me A Nightmare on Elm Street IS a slasher flick. They just added a “supernatural” dream twist to it. It’s got all the elements; teens, sex and gory death!
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• The Burning
  “Gather around the campfire to die!”
  A former summer camp caretaker, horribly burned from a prank gone wrong, goes back to the scene to start getting his revenge.

  Tom Savini was the man responsible for the special effects in this one. Interesting notes about this film are that it was written by Bob & Harvey Weinstein and has a very young (and thin) Jason Alexander.
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• The Prowler
  In 1945, a World War II veteran returns home to Avalon Bay, New Jersey to find a “Dear John letter” left by his girlfriend. He then murders her and her new boyfriend at the graduation dance. Thirty-five years later, at the first dance since the killings, the murderer is back, decked out in battledress and with an assortment of weapons, to kill again.

  The Prowler is one of Tom Savini’s better films for effects work. The pacing of this film is a bit slow, but the ending is well worth it. Plus having the killer all dressed up in battledress is pretty damn disturbing.
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• Hell Night
  Four college pledges are forced to spend the night in a deserted old mansion where they get killed off one by one by the monstrous surviving members of a family massacre years earlier for trespassing on their living grounds.

  It’s rumored that Hollywood has added Hell Night to its ever growing list of remakes. It had been a while since I’d watched it, so I felt the need for a viewing.
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