Uncle Sam is a 1996 American black comedy slasher film directed by William Lustig (Vigilante, Maniac Cop), written by Larry Cohen (God told me to, Phone Booth, Q: The Winged Serpent), and starring Isaac Hayes (Truck Turner). The movie The movie is about Sam (unrecognizable in the movie, but played […]
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The Slasher film is one of the most well known subgenres of all those that encompass Horror cinema. These movies were essentially the high concept offspring of early precursors like Hitchcock’s PSYCHO, and the Italian gialli. Most had a very similar structure and plot which usually involved a killer that […]
“You can’t be alive!” We’ll kick our Month of Horror Prevues off with one of my favorite films in the 80s slasher genre. Of course there are now tons of Friday The 13ths but back in 1982, it was really the sweet spot for the series and these kinds of […]
There have been several important director/composer collaborations throughout cinema history and one of its most well established and unique was Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann. For Psycho (1960), coined the “godfather of slasher films” by cineasts, Herrmann created a rapidly paced, macabre masterpiece of bright shrieking strings and brass cues […]