Franchise Corner Entry: HATCHET HATCHET **** USA 2006 84 mins In case you were in any doubt about writer-director Adam Green’s intentions with HATCHET, the tagline boasted “It’s not a remake…It’s not a sequel. And it’s not based on a Japanese one” and the opening sequence features Robert Englund disembowelled…
Browsing: Slasher
THE GOATMAN MURDERS aka Deadly Detour *** USA 2011 68 mins A daytime-set, no-budget slasher movie in which a goat / human hybrid – disfigured by scientific experiments and resembling Sloth from THE GOONIES – butchers two cars worth of mouth-breathers who fail to note the bad vibes coming from…
STITCHES **** UK 2012 86 mins Dir: Conor McMahon Irish filmmaker Conor McMahon follows up his earlier small-scale zombie apocalypse movie DEAD MEAT with this novel, gruesomely inventive coulrophobia-enhanced homage to 80’s slasher movies. Miserable clown Ross Noble (treading the fine line between being genuinely funny and just plain disturbing)…