Definitely First Blood

Findlaybruary continues this week with PRIME EVIL!!! Starring Christine Moore, Amy Brentano (Who is absolutely a gem in this), Ruth Collins and Mavis Harris, Prime Evil is all about Alexandra as the mysterious Father Thomas grooms her to be her grandfather’s human sacrifice for the Winter Solstice, this movie is very, very disjointed with huge amounts of plot happening off screen and only told through exposition. The villains face absolutely no roadblocks or conflict until the climax and despite really solid acting… nobody is given very much to do other than Father Thomas who gets to make out with all of these much, much, much younger women, Ultimately this one is pretty ‘meh’. I love one-stop shopping!

We’re back with another sorority slasher this week as we kick off Findlaybruary with BLOOD SISTERS! Written and Directed by Roberta Findlay, Blood Sisters is about a sorority initiation that goes awry when a night at an old brothel leads to spectral encounters and MUUUURDER!? It has some interesting elements that it seems to abandon for a more run-of-the-mill slasher, but overall still very enjoyable! SOMEONE STOLE MY WATCH!!!

We’re back and we’re more silent and mad than ever! This week we’re talking 1984 3-D slasher SILENT MADNESS!!! This slasher stars Belinda Montgomery as Dr. Joan Gilmore, a committed and idealistic psychologist from Brooklyn who discovers that her hospital has accidentally released a notorious mass murderer (or have they?) and travels to a small women’s college with hopes of finding him and saving the Sorority Sisters living where the murders occurred. We’ve got some genre icons in this one with Sidney Lassick as the shitty Sheriff and Elizabeth Kaitan in her first role! Overall, Silent Madness isn’t terrible, kind of just very middling, particularly with so many superior additions to the genre coming out at around the same time with similar plots. But, we still liked it! Blood and guts and everything!

It’s that time of year again, in that it’s time for a New Year and SLASHER ONE-AND-DONES(THE ONES WE’VE DONE)!!! Continuing our tradition of brackets on brackets, this year we’ve pitted slasher movies without sequels(that we’ve covered on the podcast) against each other to determine which one is our favourite from Blood Lake to Bay of Blood and Blood Rage! As always, this is just for fun - and just our opinion! Happy New Year!

Christmas and also Prom is in the air today as we celebrate the holidays with a movie that features snow, catholicism and has at least one scene with Christmas lights, PROM NIGHT IV: DELIVER US FROM EVIL!!! This fourth instalment is really its own thing; this time around it’s Directed by Clay Borris and stars Nicole deBoer, Joy Tanner, J.H. Whyman and Alle Ghadban as two couples headed to a mansion for a Prom Night of sex and terrible furniture. Prom Night IV is a great standalone slasher with likeable characters (Justice4Laura) and an interesting story critiquing the church and its hypocrisy. We love it!

We’re off to the Rocky Mountains this week as we talk Jim Makichuk’s atmospheric Canadian snowmobile horror GHOSTKEEPER!!! Featuring one of the most insidious asshole boyfriends we’ve ever seen, Ghostkeeper is about three pals who end up at a defunct lodge in a blizzard where the mysterious caretaker is also the guardian of an ancient creature! Despite its production problems, this movie is an atmospheric and contained movie that is very enjoyable and kooky. How can the mountains be dangerous when they’re so beautiful?

The aliens have landed this week as we talk about Larry Thomas’ MUTILATIONS!!! A group of students, their professor and his compadre venture out to search for a crashed meteor but find themselves targeted by cow-mutilating, human-eating ALIENS! This is an interesting one, its reminiscent of 50’s B-movies and has good cinematography and death effects… but there’s no denying this is a very silly movie that barely has any plot - but with a runtime of just over an hour, it’s very charming! How’s my favourite professor today?

We’ve wrapped ourselves in plastic and hidden our cat this week as we talk about Nathan J. White’s THE CARRIER!!! In a sleepy little town, the downtrodden Jake is attacked by a mysterious black thing that imbues him with a strange ability; if he touches an object, it becomes cursed and dissolves whoever touches it. It’s a fantastic movie with lots of interesting story and unique plot that was obviously very thoroughly planned. We love it! We don’t have friends out here either, so what the fuck does it matter?

Happy Halloween! We finish off our run of themed features with Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers! Resurrecting our masked embodiment of evil this time around are writer Alan B. McElroy and director Dwight H. Little with Donald Pleasence, Danielle Harris and Ellie Cornell. This is an enjoyable but relatively middle-of-the-road entry to the franchise with a good cast and does a decent job at creating atmosphere!

WARNING: SPOILERS!!! We give our stream-of-consciousness thoughts on HALLOWEEN KILLS! The Strodes are back this time around and they’ve got all of Haddonfield hunting Michael down with them. There’s returning survivors from the original, lots of tie-ins and lots of kills(as one would expect)! This movie has obviously been really divisive among horror fans, but we both really like it!