Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)
Feb 15, 2001Slasher Film/Psychic Powers
The seventh of the Friday the 13th films, this tries to add some novelty with a heroine who has psychic powers but is mostly the same thing as before
Kane Hodder
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
Feb 15, 2000Slasher Film
The eighth of the Friday the 13th films that offers the novelty of taking a revived Jason to New York City. Actually, one of the better entries in the series, which plays his encounters with New York locals for some amusement
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)
Jan 1, 2001Slasher/Mind-Control Parasite
The ninth of the Friday the 13th films and the most variant and fun of the series. This cheerfully turns expectations on their head and readily punctures the series cliches
Project: Metalbeast (1994)
Apr 24, 2013Cyborg Werewolf
Typical 1990s video-released effort that stands out by dint of a far-out idea – a cyborg werewolf – even if in the end the film does nothing with it and everything only boils down to a standard monster movie that takes everything from the Alien playbook
Wishmaster (1997)
Jul 21, 2000Evil Wish-Granting Djinn
Rather enjoyable effort about an evil djinn that grants cursed wishes. Directed by makeup effects artist Robert Kurtzman, this has been designed to highlight various effects. Three sequels followed.
Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998)
Jun 2, 2021Pagan Child Cult
Quite who the audience for these Children of the Corn films is that they keep making more of them is a mystery. This was the fifth of eleven films and at least better than the last two entries
Jason X (2001)
Feb 2, 2003Slasher in Space
The tenth Friday the 13th film. This tries to add novelty as Jason is thawed out in the future aboard a space station to slaughter anew. Featuring no less than David Cronenberg as a victim
Hatchet (2006)
Nov 14, 2010Slasher Film Homage
This was Adam Green's homage to the Friday the 13th series that comes with the virtue of a high level of gore and a sense of humour. This was subsequently spun out to several sequels
Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield (2007)
Dec 21, 2009True Life Killer/Necrophile
Film based on the exploits of necrophile killer Ed Gein that throws the facts up in the air and essentially makes up its own story, while the role is miscast with a hulking Kane Hodder
B.T.K. (2008)
Feb 11, 2010True Life Serial Killer
A film supposedly based on true-life serial killer Dennis Rader that completely fictionalises much of his story, while Rader is badly miscast with big, bulky Kane Hodder
Bundy: An American Icon (2009)
Jul 21, 2020True-Life Serial Killer
A low-budget film based on the life of serial killer Ted Bundy starring Corin Nemec. This stays to the facts of the case more than some of director Michael Feifer's other True Crime films
Frozen (2010)
Mar 21, 2010Trapped on a Ski Chairlift
Not to be confused with the Disney animated film, this is a harrowing survival drama from Adam Green about three characters trapped in mid-air on a ski chairlift
Hatchet II (2010)
May 15, 2014Slasher Film Homage
Hatchet was a homage to the 1980s slasher film that had a mild amusement. In the sequels, Adam Green upped the number of genre cameos and in-jokes, while pushing the gore effects to an extreme
Chillerama (2011)
Jun 23, 2012Horror Parody Anthology/Drive-In Homage
In the same vein as Grindhouse, four filmmakers have come together to make an anthology of spoof horror films that homage the drive-in tradition. Good taste is left well behind and the results are both outrageous and funny
Exit 33 (2011)
Jan 19, 2013Psycho Gas Station Owner
Dull and routine film with Kane Hodder as a psycho backwoods gas station owner. The film miscasts the hulking Hodder in trying to make him look like an ordinary guy
Hatchet III (2013)
May 15, 2014Slasher Film Homage
Third in the series of slasher homage films where Adam Green steps back from the director's chair. This ups the gore content and number of genre cameos, otherwise is fairly much the same as before
Digging Up the Marrow (2014)
Feb 29, 2016Found Footage/In Search of a Secret World of Monsters
Adam Green, director of the Hatchet films, makes a Found Footage film about the search for an underground world of monsters. The monsters, when seen, are quite imaginative
Muck (2015)
Nov 25, 2016Attack by Albinoid Creatures
Group of friends are attacked by a horde of albinoid creatures – this is the whole of the film with no more explanations that that. The self-absorbed characters and the director's obsession with including undressed girls at every opportunity gets in the way of developing what could have been a decent film
Victor Crowley (2017)
Feb 19, 2018Slasher Film Homage
Adam Green has enjoyed some success with the Hatchet films; this is the fourth entry in the series … Most of the other films have consisted of not much more than buckets of gore and a host of genre cameos – here though, Green adds a considerable sense of humour to the mix
Death House (2017)
Jun 30, 2019Asylum of Insane Killers Unleashed
This comes with the winning idea of being conceived as a horror version of The Expendables bringing back an amazing line-up of horror actors from principally the 80s. Alas, the film itself as an incoherent mess
In Search of Darkness: A Journey Into Iconic ‘80s Horror (2019)
Jul 11, 2020Documentary About the 1980s Horror Film
An exhaustive documentary that charts in enormous detail every facet of the 1980s horror film, although this is not as exhaustive as it seems to think and leaves some big omissions
In Search of Darkness II: A Journey Into ’80s Horror Continues (2020)
May 6, 2024Documentary About the 1980s Horror Film
A follow-up to the documentary about the 1980s horror film, this deals with some of the lesser-known and overlooked works that were not covered the first time around
13 Fanboy (2021)
Jun 19, 2022Killer Stalks Friday the 13th Actresses
Slasher film that comes with a great hook – one where various real-life actresses from the Friday the 13th films are stalked by a masked maniac
The History of Metal and Horror (2022)
Aug 26, 2024Horror and Heavy Metal Documentary
A documentary that explores the intersection between heavy metal music and horror and the frequently intertwined relationship of the two
Kill Her Goats (2023)
Mar 30, 2024Folk Slasher
You could maybe coin the term Folk Slasher for this low-budget film where girls are pursued by chainsaw wielding figures in goat-headed masks. Painfully bad on all counts.