A year after a high school girl’s mother is killed, a psycho killer in a Scream mask begins killing. The students attempt to remain safe by relying on horror film clichés. Quick Review: It isn’t as if there have been many original slasher films since Psycho, but by the mid-90s, the well was completely dry. How many
Another killer in a mask is after Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) and the other survivors (David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Jamie Kennedy) from the first Scream film, but this time, it is the rules of a sequel that are being followed. Quick Review: The strength of Scream was that it did something different; outside of that,
A five-man hazardous waste crew take on a rush job of cleaning the asbestos from an abandoned insane asylum. The team consists of Gordon (Peter Mullan), who can’t deal with the stress of his new baby, Hank (Josh Lucas), a greedy conman, Phil (David Caruso), who holds a grudge against Hank, Mike (Stephen Gevedon), who studied
Strange, silent Angela (Felissa Rose), whose family died in a boating accident, is sent to camp with her cousin. A murderer is also at the camp who takes out campers and counselors in typical Slasher fashion. What is the killer’s motive and what is the connection to Angela? Quick Review: We’re in pure D-movie Slasher territory, and within
Angela (Pamela Springsteen) is a happy but puritanical councilor at Camp Rolling Hills, a summer camp with a lot of overage attendees. She likes nice girls, and when girls aren’t nice, she kills them. Realizing that the quirky Sleepaway Camp could not be repeated, the filmmakers took a different rout, using the standard camp Slasher story
Peppy psycho killer Angela (Pamela Springsteen) returns to camp to massacre campers who aren’t nice enough, and no one is nice enough for Angela. This time it’s Camp New Horizons, run by Herman and Lily Miranda (Michael J. Pollard, Sandra Dorsey). The campers are a mix of rich brats and underprivileged delinquents, but Angela makes
Several years after a prank goes terribly wrong, a group of students have their last college party on a train, with an uninvited killer. As her friends start dropping, Alana (Jamie Lee Curtis) runs for her life. Quick Review: It isn’t that this is particularly worse than the average Slasher film, but that it IS the
While driving through rural Texas, Sally, her wheelchair-confined brother, Franklin, and three other late teens (or early twenty year olds) pick up a deranged hitchhiker. After tossing him out, they stop at the abandoned family home and then run into the neighbors, who include the hitchhiker, a chainsaw wielding maniac, and other assorted cannibals. A
While driving through rural Texas, Erin (Jessica Biel), her boyfriend, Kemper (Eric Balfour), and three others, pick up a girl in shock, who soon after commits suicide. While attempting to report the incident and rid themselves of the body, they find themselves in a nightmare of assorted inbred maniacs including a drunken sheriff (R. Lee