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Stars: Jessa Flux, Ashleigh Amberlynn, Mel Heflin, Kelsey Livengood, Angel Nichole Bradford, Anna Clary, Mia Katz, Lynn Lowry, Ann Myrna | Written by Steve Hermann | Directed by Angel Nichole Bradford, Steve Hermann

Horror films and sorority houses are a combination that go back at least as far as 1957’s Blood of Dracula and 1961’s Werewolf in a Girls’ Dormitory, the 70s gave us the classic original versions of Black Christmas and Suspiria, along with the memorable made for TV flick The Initiation of Sarah.

But it was the slasher boom of the 80s that it blossomed with films like Sorority House Massacre, The House on Sorority Row and The Initiation. Since then we’ve had multiple remakes of Black Christmas and House on Sorority Row as well as new films such as Die Die Delta Pi, Slotherhouse and now Night of the Dead Sorority Babes.

A group of coeds, Veronica, Victoria,...

Scream Factory’s April home video line-up consists of 4K upgrades for Renfield, Sorority House Massacre, The Hunt, and Timecop.

2023 horror-comedy Renfield sinks its fangs into 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on April 1.

Chris McKay (The Tomorrow War) directs from a script by Ryan Ridley (“Rick and Morty”), based on an idea by The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman.

Nicholas Hoult and Nicolas Cage star with Awkwafina, Ben Schwartz, and Adrian Martinez.

Disc 1 – 4K Uhd:

Presented In Dolby Vision And Dolby Atmos Audio: DTS-hd Master Audio 5.1 Surround, DTS-hd Master Audio 2.0, Dolby Atmos Audio Commentary With Producer Samantha Nisenboim, Screenwriter Ryan Ridley, Post-Production Editor Noah Cody, Supervising Sound Editor Nancy Nugent, Supervising Sound Editor John Marquis, Digital Colorist Supervisor David Cole, Visual Effects Supervisor Jamie Price, And Makeup Effects Artist Christien Tinsley

Disc 2 – Blu-ray:

Audio: DTS-hd Master Audio 5.1 Surround, DTS-hd Master Audio 2.0, Dolby Atmos Audio Commentary With Producer Samantha Nisenboim, Screenwriter Ryan Ridley,...

Michael Villella, the actor known for playing the serial killer Russ Thorn in the cult classic “The Slumber Party Massacre,” has died. He was 84.

Villella’s death was announced Saturday through a statement on his Facebook page: “Michael Pasquale Villella has left this world, may he rest in peace. May God welcome Michael with open arms and bring him into heaven.”

His daughter, Chloe Villella, also confirmed the news on social media. A cause of death was not disclosed.

Villella made his onscreen debut as the drill-wielding killer in 1982’s “The Slumber Party Massacre,” also starring Michelle Michaels and Robin Stille. The film, directed by Amy Holden Jones and written by Rita Mae Brown, was originally meant to be a parody of the slasher genre but ultimately became a straight horror movie.

Although “The Slumber Party Massacre” received mixed reviews from critics, the 1982 original garnered a cult following and inspired...

The Bloody Disgusting-powered Screambox is home to a variety of unique horror content, from originals and exclusives to cult classics and documentaries. With such a rapidly-growing library, there are many hidden gems waiting to be discovered.

Here are five recommendations you can stream on Screambox right now.

Nightbreed: The Director’s Cut

The sophomore directorial effort from master of horror Clive Barker, Nightbreed is by no means an obscurity among genre fans, but some may not be familiar with the director’s cut, which runs 20 minutes longer than the original version and has been reworked to better reflect Barker’s original vision. While it was virtually impossible to live up to the subversive heights of Hellraiser, Nightbreed is an admirable, if uneven, effort in its own right. Based on his 1988 novella Cabal, Barker incorporates elements of fantasy, monster movies, psychological thrillers, and slashers, but at its core Nightbreed is a love story.

Straight out of the Chattanooga premiere, Cineverse and Bloody Disgusting’s throwback slasher We Might Hurt Each Other (formerly Pensive) arrives on our Screambox streaming platform tomorrow!

The bloody Lithuanian teen horror was directed by Jonas Trukanas and stars Gabija Bargailaite (Pilgrims) and calls back to slasher classics like Friday the 13th.

Inspired by local legends, Pensive follows a group of privileged high school classmates. After these classmates destroy a set of life-size wooden statues during a wild graduation party, a mysterious masked killer begins picking the group off one by one.

Gory and glorious, Pensive is a gritty throwback to the 80s and the heyday of slasher cinema. Calling back to Friday the 13th, the filmmakers took what was great about the era and give it a refreshing lift with the infusion of Eastern European folklore. Check out the trailer below.

Other July highlights include The Exorcist writer William Peter Blatty...

Get ready for a brand new summer slasher when Screambox drops the Lithuanian splatter film We Might Hurt Each Other this July, alongside other gems including the horror comedy Shoky & Morthy: Last Big Thing, the brutal Czech film Repulse, Elvira’s Haunted Hills, and the documentary Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street.

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Evil, terror, lust… the Mistress of the Dark really knows how to party! Elvira’s Haunted Hills is now streaming on Screambox, alongside 13 Nights of Elvira and over 10 classic episodes of Elvira’s Movie Macabre.

A masked killer strikes in Screambox Original We Might Hurt Each Other on July 11. Lithuania’s first slasher pays tribute to the golden age of the subgenre while infusing an influence from Eastern European folklore.

A pair of notorious YouTubers make a killer comeback in the Screambox Exclusive Shoky & Morthy: Last Big Thing on July 18. The...

Killer Collectibles highlights five of the most exciting new horror products announced each and every week, from toys and apparel to artwork, records, and much more.

Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!

Swamp Thing 4K Uhd from Mvd

Swamp Thing will be released on 4K Ultra HD on July 25 via Mvd, leading its new 4K LaserVision Collection. (A Blu-ray edition will also be available as part of the Mvd Rewind Collection.) A slipcover and mini poster are included.

Both the PG-rated US version and the unrated international version of the film have been newly restored in 16-bit 4K from the original camera negative with Dolby VIsion/Hdr and DTS-hd Master Audio 2.0 Mono.

Based on the DC Comics character created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson, the 1982 superhero horror film is written and directed by master of horror Wes Craven. Louis Jourdan and Adrienne Barbeau star with Ray Wise,...

Robert Schwartzman is part of one of Hollywood’s great filmmaking dynasties, but when he ventured into directing himself, he discovered that the world of distribution for up-and-coming filmmakers was broken.

The multihyphenate, who is Francis Ford Coppola’s nephew, has acted in movies like “The Princess Diaries” — where he played Anne Hathaway’s love interest Michael Moscovitz in what became her breakout movie — and has fronted the rock band Rooney since 1999. In recent years, however, Schwartzman has become more ensconced in the family business, directing indie features such as “The Unicorn,” “Dreamland” and “The Argument.”

“I felt a frustration that certain films were being overlooked in the market, like when you don’t get into a film festival, and the movie doesn’t make the cut sometimes,” Schwartzman tells Variety. “It’s pretty emotionally devastating for a filmmaker to feel that rejection.”

He continues: “You want to put [the film] in...

Writer and director B. Harrison Smith is back with new Lionsgate slasher Where the Scary Things Are, and we’re debuting the trailer this morning. Where the Scary Things Are will be available on Digital and DVD June 28. It’s billed as being similar to “Stand by Me or The Goonies… with […]

The post ‘Where the Scary Things Are’ Trailer Unleashes the Monster Known as Lockjaw [Exclusive] appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Case-heavy installments are often when Chicago P.D. is at its best.

One hour can elicit a full range of emotions when you're following along on a difficult case, rooting for the crew to capture the most heinous individual. And much of Chicago Pd Season 9 Episode 4 focused on that.

However, it also displayed Hailey cracking and those shocking but predictable final moments when Halstead learned the truth and reacted passionately.

It's always a treat when the series mixes and matches unit members for diversity's sake, breaking up the monotony of the same partnerships.

While a questionable romantic and sexual choice, Hailey and Ruzek have always made a solid team, so when they picked up the case at that urban legend Death House that steals souls, it felt as if we were on the path toward something different.

We also got Hailey and Burgess making the hospital run to talk to sweet Christian,...

Dream Cinema Production will be going into pre-production soon on their new horror feature film from writer / director Philip Cable, titled “Death House: The Haunting Begins”. Lilian Mortis has signed on to join the cast of “Death House: The Haunting Begins”. Lilian is a featured performer at The Metal …

The post Lilian Mortis joins “Death House” The Haunting Begins appeared first on Horror News | Hnn.

Stars: Lizze Gordon, Margot Major, Adam Horner, Sofya Skya, Jocelyn Saenz, Miranda O’Hare, Jessica Louise Long, Sara Stretton, Aaron James, Terri Ivens, Jennifer Cipolla, Tessa Espinola | Written by Lizze Gordon | Directed by Margaret Malandruccolo

Five undergrad witches come together in order to perform a ritual to invoke the ancient powers of the witch Ashura. The leader of the coven gets carried away and accidentally kills one of the witches during the ritual. She needs the strength of a complete coven to invoke Ashura’s powers and sends them out to find a final witch. As she absorbs power the surviving girls’ plot to take her down but the possessed witch unleashes hell on campus with only one young witch left to stop her…

The Craft and Charmed have a lot to answer for. It seems that since then any film featuring teen girls in peril all feel in that same...

Stars: Robert R. Shafer, Barbara Niven, Miles Dougal, Rod Sweitzer, Nick Vallelonga, Melanie Good, Julie Strain | Written by Dan Povenmire | Directed by Adam Rifkin (as Rif Coogan)

You know, it wasn’t until the release of Detroit Rock City that I realised that a) Adam Rifkin and Rif Coogan are one in the same; and b) just how many of Rifkin’s films I considered amongst my favourites at that time: Never on Tuesday, The Dark Backward, The Chase and, of course, Psycho Cop Returns. Mainly because they were films I remember renting on video (you couldn’t escape trailers for The Dark Backward back in the VHS era) and seeing on Sky’s movie channels in the days when you could be guaranteed to find an “obscure” film screening as filler between their big-name flicks!

Psycho Cop Returns came at a period in horror movie making, which also included...

This one is for you low-budget horror fans out there. Fry cook by day and independent short filmmaker by night Jesse James Hennessy is looking to make his feature film debut with an homage to 80s VHS movies with his upcoming horror flick Night of the Witch.   Night of the Witch is a throwback to the classic horror flicks of the 80's.  Giving many nods to epic films such as:  Evil Dead 2 - Dead by Dawn, Friday the 13th Part 8 - Jason Takes Manhattan, Night of the Demons, Sorority House Massacre, The Return of the Living Dead, and Fright Night.     Jhh started a crowdfunding campaign and if you like what you see in their proof on concept trailer then maybe...

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Halloween may be over, but that doesn’t mean we’ve run out of new releases to share with you. Here are the new releases for November 4th, 2014.

Sorority House Massacre. United States. Limited Edition – 1,200 copies Scorpion Releasing. 1986.

(Technically this is a November 3rd release but I thought I would include it on this list.)

A little girl’s brother kills the whole family but her (she escapes by hiding in the basement). He is committed, and she grows up with a new family, eventually going to college, where she joins a sorority. Due to a memory block, she doesn’t remember that the sorority house was her childhood house. Her brother senses her presence in the house and escapes so he can finish the job he was unable to complete. (Source)

The Doctor and the Devils. United States. Shout Factory. 1985.

An 18th-century doctor must rely upon the disreputable duo...

Stars: Marissa Skell, Eve Mauro, Ed O’Ross, Yvette Yates, Thomas Downey, Casey Fitzgerald, Rebecca Grant, Adrian Kirk, Alison Mei Lan, Keith Compton, Richard Moll, Leslie Easterbrook, Louis Mandylor, Ron Jeremy, Kevin Sorbo | Written by Chris W. Freeman | Directed by Justin Jones, Chris W. Freeman

Imagine if you let a horny, Add-riddled teenage boy watch a whole bunch of 80s slasher movies, introduce him to a gaggle of nubile young women, and then make his own take on the genre but without a decent budget, or decent gore effects. You’d probably end up with something like Sorority Party Massacre…

When his daughter goes missing, an L.A. police captain (Kevin Sorbo) dispatches Detective Watts (Thomas Downey) to investigate. As Watts is due to be suspended for growing anger management issues, he is keen to earn the favour of his captain. However, on arriving in Grizzly Cove, the setting for a gathering of sorority girls,...

Well this years Frightfest is over and I’ve had a week to digest everything – it’s safe to say this year was… interesting. The move from the Empire to Vue West End, whilst not without the odd teething problem, was a success. Yes, the atmosphere had changed a little, at least in terms of experiencing a film with hundreds of people instead of thousands, but the positives of the move truly outweighed any negatives. My personal positive? The wide range of films on show this year and that fact there was No problems getting into the Discovery Screens this year – which in my own case, was where I saw some of the best films of the festival.

Speaking of films, whilst there was no outstanding, totally blown me away, movie this year, there overall standard was Very high, with only one real dud of the entire week (and I...

Stars: Jessica Cameron, Ryan Kiser, Heather Dorff, Shelby Stehlin, Devanny Pinn, Brandon Van Vliet, Ryan Kiser, Jesse Wilson, Buz Wallick, Grae Drake, Brett Wagner | Written by Jessica Cameron, Jonathan Scott Higgins | Directed by Jessica Cameron

Uber-prolific scream queen Jessica Cameron turns director for this, her feature-film debut, Truth or Dare. which sees six friends find internet stardom as the “Truth or Daredevils”, producing truth or dare videos with a violent twist. What starts out as fame, fun and games turns deadly when their number one fan decides he wants to join in the “fun” only this time they’ll be playing by his rules…

Who would have thought that a sweet-talking blonde Canadian girl could make such a nasty, mean-spirited horror film? Not me that’s for sure. It’s surprising to think that, given all the complaints of misogyny and sexism in horror that a female director could create such a misogynistic movie!

Scorpion Releasing will be unleashing Carol Frank's classic 80's slasher flick 'Sorority House Massacre' on Blu-ray this Summer. Unfortunately all we get right now is a peek at the box artwork and no word on any special features that'll be included on the disc. But we do get two pun-like taglines for the price of one on the cover so at least that's something. 'Sorority House Massacre' stars Angela O'Neill, Wendy Martel, Pamela Ross, Nicole Rio and John C. Russell and the Blu-ray will hit shelves and online stores across the Us from 8 July 2014. Head below to check out the Blu-ray artwork....

Scorpion Releasing has announced a July release date for Sorority House Massacre on Blu-ray. The 1986 horror movie will be making its way to Blu-ray thanks to Scorpion Releasing and New Horizons on July 8th and we’ve included a look at the official cover art below.

[via Blu-ray.com] “When Beth comes to visit her friends at the Sorority she gets a strange feeling from the house…it seems hauntingly familiar. The girls just want to have fun, but Beth suffers from nightmares of a knife wielding killer. Little does she know, a dangerous psycho has just escaped from the mental ward, and is heading straight for the Sorority! The girls’ night of fun quickly becomes a night of terror as the killer stalks them one by one!”

Sorority House Massacre was directed by Carol Frank and stars Angela O’Neill, Wendy Martel, and Pamela Ross. A list of bonus features have not...

The 1986 slasher flick Sorority House Massacre is on its way to Blu-ray high definition via Scorpion Releasing, and we have a look at the cover art for you right here. You can almost smell the Aquanet.

No specs or even a release date were available at press time.

Carol Frank directs. Angela O'Neill, Wendy Martel, Pamela Ross, Nicole Rio, and John C. Russell star.

Synopsis

A little girl's brother kills their whole family but her (she escapes by hiding in the basement). He is committed, and she grows up with a new family, eventually going to college, where she joins a sorority. Due to a memory block, she doesn't remember that the sorority house was her childhood house. Her brother senses her presence in the house and escapes so he can finish the job he was unable to complete.

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Odd List Ryan Lambie 6 Nov 2013 - 06:50

From random films with altered names to unrelated storylines, we take a look at 15 incredibly tenuous horror and sci-fi film sequels...

The profit-driven nature of filmmaking usually means that, if a movie's a hit, sequels follow. And it's sometimes the case that, particularly in the realm of low-budget sci-fi and horror, those sequels are trotted out in a rush, or don't have anything to do with the film they're following.

This isn't to say that the sequels on this list are necessarily bad - it's a proper mixed bag of the great, the mediocre and the downright awful - but in each instance, these sequels have only vague links to their predecessors, or worse still, they're entirely different films rebranded to fit an existing franchise.  

Our list is by no means definitive - rather, we've chosen a collection of films that we find the most memorable.

Stars: Katherine Browning, Leah Verrill, Ashley Love, Tiffany S. Walker | Written and Directed by Mike Campbell, Todd Johnson

Lily (Browning), her best friend Bianca (Walker), sister Lori (Love), and Lori’s lover Pam (Verrill) move into their first off campus house together. The antics and the tempers run high. What they don’t know is that the owner is a Nalusa Chito – a soul taker – who eats the souls of evil women. And he has locked them in the house. For the girls, it is a battle to the death because only the innocent can kill him. Paying the rent has never been so deadly.

Let me just check the date… This is 2013 right?

Had to check as watching 4 Dead Girls: The Soul Taker took me right back to the late 80s/early 90s and the types of films that filled the shelves of video stores during that time. Four...

The influence of the great Roger Corman has reverberated through the film industry for many, many years. Now, with advancements in technology making movie watching easier than ever, his reach is about to extend to a larger audience than he could have imagined.

From the Press Release

Iconic American filmmaker Roger Corman and Julie Corman are expanding their personal YouTube subscription channel. After its successful launch in the U.S. and Canada last month, “Corman’s Drive-In” is now available to fans in the United Kingdom, Japan, Brazil, France, Spain, Russia, South Korea, and Australia.

Due to the tremendous popularity of Corman’s films around the globe, YouTube is making the channel available around the world immediately. The authentically American drive-in movie concept is gaining in popularity globally as Paris’ famous Grand Palais has been transformed into an American-styled drive-in cinema for the summer while in Japan Roger Corman is...

I must start off by saying that I was grossly disappointed with this film. Not that I had high expectations in the first place, but preliminary elements such as being a mid-80s B-horror flick with the title it possesses, as well as having a director at the helm who had a hand in the original sub-genre film of its type, Slumber Party Massacre, its quite a long-shot from living up to those expectations. Sorority House Massacre (1986) can be consi…...

*here be minor spoilers. Director/writer: Justin Russell. Cast: Brittany Belland, Tiffany Arnold, Riana Ballo, John Bloom, Jessica Cameron, Jason Jay Crabtree, and Ali Ferda. There have been many films in the past that involve serial killers and sororities. From Black Christmas (1974) to The House on Sorority Row (1983) and even to The Sorority House Massacre (1986), there are sorority sisters living in fear of a nameless killer. Justin Russell's debut is reminiscent of all of these. However, The Sleeper is most similar to When a Stranger Calls (1979). You just never know were the killer is in these films. That killer brandishes a smallish looking claw hammer. He babbles into his rotary phone of "girls" and "coming to get you." The girls at the sorority house, to whom he is talking, take little interest. There is partying to do after all. Oblivious to his actions, the killer gets closer and closer to the sorority house.

by Chris Wright, MoreHorror.com

We’ve seen slashers in hospitals, forests, and houses. But what about supermarkets? “Intruder” takes the slasher genre in the late 1980s to the grocery isles!

From the producers of “Evil Dead II”, we have a fairly original slasher that is much better than most of the slashers that came out around this time. By the time most slasher movies came out in the late 1980s they seemed to be sheer parodies of themselves. This is a must see for any gore guru and slasher fan in the horror genre. First released by Paramount on VHS, there are a few DVD copies available.

It is really strange for a slasher to be released around this time but I guess Raimi and Bruce Campbell wanted to keep their name in the news as actors and producers. This is Scott Spiegel’s directing debut, which isn’t terrible for a first shot.

Behind the scenes of The Ideal And you thought that the sorority pledges of the The Initiation or Sorority House Massacre had it tough! Or that school was hellish for the students in Cry_Wolf. These days, students now have to deal with a teacher who is suffering from murderous tendencies in "The Ideal" from director Wes Tomasz Ciesla and starring newcomer Dennis Brito along with Kristen Brancaccio and Ivan Perez.

In The Ideal, for Julia and Alexander it was just a high school summer job. It was the chance to earn money and work with eccentric, but popular history teacher, Mr. Zenidro. However, something else awaits them in the empty, yet mysterious school building. Mr. Zenidro leads them to reckon with the hidden past. As the past and present begin to blur together so does sanity and madness. What will Julia and Alexander learn as they struggle in the...

Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) You know how you have this sneaking suspicion in the back of your mind about the motives or intentions of a person? Now hasn't that same sneaking suspicion happened to you while watching a horror film? Admit it. Don't kid yourself. You know you have. Maybe Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) wanted her Bff to cancel that date for her in Halloween cause she's secretly a lesbian? Or how about Angela O' Neill in Sorority House Massacre. In an interview I did with her, she stated she refused to get naked for the film, but due to her not getting naked while all the other girls were shucking their clothes in front of her, that certainly created some of that same sex loving tension in the movie. Or you have the movies of late from David DeCoteau with the guys getting down to the briefs or boxer...

"This Spring Break…Get Hammered!"

Bongiovi Entertainment in association with Rex Steven Sikes (Massacre at Central High) and George Barnes (Take 2 productions)

present

"Girls Gone Dead"

(Aka Spring Break Massacre II)

Michael Hoffman Jr. and wife Meghan Jones were looking to reinvent the classic "The Slumber Party Massacre" or "Sorority House Massacre" sub-genre of films. Well, looking at the behind the scenes pics from the film, so far to date, they have come up with at least one new cliche or invention for the horror genre-

The Shawn C. Phillips death scene

Shawn C. Phillips is an indie actor who has been in a wide variety of horror films (President's Day, Witch's Brew, Hell House, Deadly Dares: Truth or Dare Part IV, Red River), but one thing always seems to be a constant in those films. He always gets killed! Judging by the pics from the set of "Girls Gone...

Seeing how the teen horror slasher "The Slumber Party Massacre", which starred Robin Stille and Michelle Michaels, was a big hit for New World Pictures, Roger Corman was looking to create that same success yet again after he developed Concorde Pictures. Thus was born Sorority House Massacre which also incorporated elements from the popular Halloween franchise. Sorority House Massacre continued on with the tradition of a female director (Carol Frank), and an ensemble of female leads including Wendy Martel, Pamela Ross and Nicole Rio. However, the standout was Angela O' Neill. While the others were appealing and created distinct personalities for each of their characters, Angela O' Neill had this almost ethereal like presence. She wasn't this big, flashy diva actress. She was a bit more on the quite and reserved side, but there was just something about her that made it so that her presence filled the screen and...

While chatting last night with friend and actress Eve Mauro (she of The Steam Experiment and Wicked Lake fame), this writer was tipped off to her upcoming feature Sorority Party Massacre, scheduled to shoot in and around Los Angeles and its surrounding environs this December and coming January.

Starring Mauro and prolific television actor Ed O'Ross, C. Thomas Howell (The Hitcher), Leslie Easterbrook (The Devil’s Rejects), Richard Moll (House), Ron Jeremy, Yvette Yates and Tom Downey, Sorority House Massacre was written by Chris W. Freeman and will be co-directed by him and Justin Jones.

Speaking with Freeman, who provided us the pictured key art of Mauro as ‘Brooklyn,’ he revealed of the film’s narrative, “In danger of losing his badge, a big city detective agrees to aid a bumbling, small town sheriff in a routine missing persons investigation only to discover that at least one girl has gone...

So who is Meghan Jones? She might not be a name genre fans are familiar with right off the bat, but if you dig those "The Slumber Party Massacre" or "Sorority House Massacre" or heck even "Hard to Die" type of films that came out in the 80's, then you need to start studying up on who this promising writer is. An admirable quality to the films that she co-wrote and co-produced with her hubby, Michael Hoffman Jr., including Spring Break Massacre and Sigma Die was an innate quality to pay homage to the era of those films without being too overly jokey jokey, but still retain a sense of humor that in essence recalled the era of the teen sex comedy and some of those USA Up All Night films, but still managing to keep slasher sensibilities intact. Her ability to weave different types of styles, genres and to...

Over here at Big Daddy Horror Reviews, we would like to extend a celebratory toast to producing, writing partners Meghan Jones and Michael Hoffman Jr., the team behind such immortal classics as Spring Break Massacre, Rot: Reunion of Terror and Sigma Die! We would like to wish you the best of luck with your upcoming nuptials in Las Vegas on Halloween night.The two have shown a knack for putting together films that are amusing little homages to the horror films of the 80's.

With Spring Break Massacre (starring Linnea Quigley and Reggie Bannister in their only on screen appearance together), they paid tribute with an amusingly clever little take on The Slumber Party Massacre. Rot: Reunion of Terror packed one heck of a wallop with a surprising twist ending as it paid homage to Prom Night with a dash of Happy Birthday To Me thrown in. And Sigma Die!

More details on the Polly Staffle Grindhouse Film Festival are filtering out. The festival begins May 12th and ends May 16th in Las Vegas, Nevada. This event will show off thirteen independent films, with Scars of Youth having its world premiere at the showings. Greg Lamberson's Slime City Massacre will also be in attendance along with Zombie Apocalypse Now: A Zombie Hunter (Us premiere). Several more details are below including a full film line-up which is just below, but for in-depth details check out the Polly Staffle website found below.

A look at the full length feature films being shown next month include:

Vaginal Holocaust, Caged Lesbos A-Go-Go, Orgy of Blood, The Dead Undead and Scars of Youth, Dead Hooker in a Trunk, Frat House Massacre, Terror Overload, Horrid and Red Velvet.

An excerpt from the film Frat House Massacre can be found here:

"Screenplay writer Draven Gonzalez said...

According to Hockstatter, Shout! Factory will re-release the Slumber Party Massacre trilogy as special edition DVDs, tentatively scheduled for an October release. The fun slasher series has developed a cult following, but the DVDs have been out of print for years. Jason Paul Collum is directing an extensive, three-part supplementary documentary. There is also an “ultimate fan” contest being held...

The DVD releases are said to include the following special features:

* All-new interviews with cast, crew and FX personnel from the series

* Vintage never-before-seen interviews

* Behind-the-scenes footage and photographs

* a featurette featuring visits to the original shooting locations

* Audio commentary on the plethora of knockoffs that followed the release of these films such as: The Last Slumber Party, Sorority House Massacre and our personal favorite, The Sorority House Slumber Party Massacre

* "Sleepless Nights: Revisiting the Slumber Party Massacres" three-part documentary

* Audio commentaries for each film moderated by fansite webmaster and documentary producer,...

By Steve Pond

The man behind “Monster from the Ocean Floor,” "Women in Cages," “Attack of the Crab Monsters,” "The Student Nurses," “Stakeout on Dope Street,” “Big Bad Mama” and “Sorority House Massacre” is now an Academy Award winner.

And Francis Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Jack Nicholson, Jonathan Demme and a lot of other notable Academy members wouldn’t have it any other way.

Roger Corman, who for decades ran an astonishingly prolific low-budget movie factory and gave early bre...