Word on the street has been that ‘Cabin in the Woods’ was going to be some kind of defining moment in slasherdom. As Whedon himself has said, it will be “the horror movie to end all horror movies”.

But based on the ad campaign…

…this doesn’t look like territory that hasn’t been fully explored by ‘Scream’.

I know, I know – don’t judge a book by its cover. Fair enough. But if this redefining movie didn’t look like a cross between ‘Cabin Fever’, ‘Hatchet’, and the aforementioned ‘Scream’, I’d be little more excited.

Thanks to a 10-day-old baby in the house, I was able to blaze through all 13 episodes of ‘Harper’s Island’ in the last few days. This is CBS’ limited run episodic slasher series that apparently tanked hard and will never again see the light of day. For me, I hope they Blu-ray this thing and I’ll be the first person in line to buy it. It’s just my gut reaction and I know the show has its faults, but it is easily better than the last two big screen slashers I saw – those being ‘My Bloody Valentine’ and ‘Friday the 13th’. read more »

I know there are bigger things going on in the world and that this post should probably be about how MJ saved us all from doom, but instead, I’m gonna talk about something closer to my heart – ‘Night of the Creeps’.

Specifically, the thing going on at Amazon.com, wherein if you buy certain horror movies, you can vote on the cover art for the forthcoming special edition DVD of NotC. A totally rad idea! Except that the cover arts blow. Hard. Here they are: read more »