VOTING CLOSED - WINNER: HELL NIGHT
Thanks to everyone who voted!
I am proud that my birth year of 1981 was such a great one for horror. For reasons that can be partially explained, I think, by its key position early in the slasher wave but not so far along that lazy indulgence and formula-humping had set in, that year produced more interesting, complex, genre-defying slasher movies than any other. Let us now pay tribute to that marvelous span of 12 months by considering one of the varied slasher and slasher-influenced films to which it bore witness.
Dark Night of the Scarecrow (October, TV)
From IMDb: "In a small town, a wrongfully killed man exacts revenge on those who murdered him beyond the grave."
Hell Night (August)
From IMDb: "Four college pledges are forced to spend the night in a deserted old mansion where they get killed off one by one by the monstrous surviving members of a family massacre years earlier for trespassing on their living grounds."
There Was a Little Girl AKA Madhouse (November)
From IMDb: "Julia, a teacher in a school for the deaf, has a hideosly disformed and deranged twin sister that resides in the local looney bin."
03 July 2014
3 comments:
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I saw DNotS on TV when I was a kid. It was pretty scary for network television, but I couldn't understand why (spoiler) such a nice guy would want revenge like that. I'll be interested in reading your review, if it wins the poll.
ReplyDeleteDark Night of the Scarecrow is an absolute classic, really hope that one wins.
ReplyDeleteYou certainly know how to make a hard decision even harder. And as much as I hate to go the obvious route, I'd love to hear your take on Hell Night - and gain an excuse to watch it myself.
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