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May 5, 2012 by

Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)

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Director: Joseph Zito

Screenplay by: Barney Cohen
Story by: Bruce Hidemi Sakow

Starring: Kimberly Beck, Erich Anderson, Corey Feldman, Crispin Glover, Barbara Howard, Peter Barton, Lawrence Monoson, Joan Freeman, Clyde Hayes

Music by: Harry Manfredini

Special Makeup Effects by: Tom Savini

Taglines: “Three Times Before You Have Felt The Terror, Known The Madness, Lived The Horror. But This Is The One You’ve Been Screaming For.”

“Jason’s Back, and this is the one you’ve been screaming for.”

“This is the one you’ll be dying for…”

“Friday April 13th is Jason’s Unlucky Day”

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April 19, 2012 by

Pieces (1982) (a.k.a. Mil Gritos Tiene La Noche; The Night Has A Thousand Cries)

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Directed by: Juan Piquer Simón
Written by: Dick Randall & John W. Shadow
Starring: Christopher George, Lynda Day George, Frank Braña, Edmund Purdom, Ian Sera, Paul L. Smith, Jack Taylor

Taglines: “You Don’t Have To Go To Texas For A Chainsaw Massacre!”

“Pieces… It’s exactly what you think it is!”
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March 24, 2012 by

You Will Die At Midnight (a.k.a. Midnight Killer; Midnight Horror; Morirai a mezzanotte) (1986)

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Directed by: Lamberto Bava
Written by: Lamberto Bava & Dardano Sacchetti
Starring: Valeria D’Obici, Leonardo Treviglio, Paolo Malco, Lara Wendel, Lea Martino, Eliana Miglio

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December 19, 2011 by

Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) (a.k.a. Slayride)

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Directed by: Charles E. Sellier Jr.
Written by: Michael Hickey (based on a story by : Paul Caimi)
Starring: Robert Brian Wilson, Linnea Quigley, Lilyan Chauvin, Toni Nero, Britt Leach, Nancy Borgenicht, Charles Dierkop

Taglines: “You’ve made it through Halloween, now try and survive Christmas”

“Santa’s Here!”

“He knows when you’ve been naughty”

“Shocking… disturbing… The movie they tried to ban.”

“If “A Nightmare on Elm Street” gave you sleepless nights, or if “Halloween” made you jump in every shadow or if every “Friday the 13th” was more frightening that the others… THEN BEWARE!”

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October 23, 2011 by

A Nightmare On Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985)

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Directed by: Jack Sholder
Written by: David Chaskin
Music by: Christopher Young

Starring: Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Robert Rusler, Clu Gulager, Hope Lange, Robert Englund

Taglines: “The first name in terror returns…”

“The Man of Your Dreams Is Back.”

“Someone is coming back to Elm Street!”
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October 4, 2011 by

Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers (a.k.a. Nightmare Vacation 2) (1988)

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Director: Michael A. Simpson
Written by: Fritz Gordon and Robert Hiltzik
Starring: Pamela Springsteen, Renée Estevez, Tony Higgins, Sean Whitmore, Valerie Hartman, Brian Patrick Clarke, Walter Gotell, Susan Marie Snyder, Terry Hobbs

Taglines: “When you go camping just take the essentials”
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August 1, 2010 by

The Prowler (1981) (a.k.a. Rosemary’s Killer; The Graduation)

Directed by: Joseph Zito

Written by: Neal Barbera & Glenn Leopold

Starring: Vicky Dawson, Christopher Goutman, Lawrence Tierney, Farley Granger, Cindy Weintraub, Lisa Dunsheath, David Sederholm

Special makeup effects by: Tom Savini

Music by: Richard Einhorn

Taglines: “It will freeze your blood.”

“The human exterminator.”

“if you think you’re safe… you’re DEAD wrong!”

“the film that shocked America!”

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April 26, 2010 by

A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)

Director: Wes Craven

Starring: Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, Johnny Depp, John Saxon, Amanda Weiss, Nick Corri, Ronee Blakely, Charles Fleischer

Music by: Charles Bernstein

Taglines: “She is the only one who can stop it… if she fails, no one survives.”

“If Nancy Doesn’t Wake Up Screaming She Won’t Wake Up At All…”

“Sleep Kills”

“A scream that wakes you up, might be your own…”

“Whatever you do, don’t fall asleep…or you’ll meet the terrifying Freddy.”

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August 11, 2009 by

Evil Laugh (1988)

Director: Dominick Brascia
Written by: Steven Baio & Dominick Brascia
Music by: David Shapiro
Starring: Steven Baio, Tony Griffin, Kim McKamy (Ashlyn Gere), Jody Gibson, Jerold Pearson, Myles O’Brien, Howard Weiss, Karyn O’Bryan, Susan Grant

Tagline: “Ten years ago something terrible happened in this house… This weekend it’s about to happen AGAIN.”
“Martin’s back and he’ll scare you… TO DEATH!”

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July 21, 2009 by

Chopping Mall (1986) (a.k.a. Killbots)

Director: Jim Wynorski

Written by: Steve Mitchell & Jim Wynorski

Starring: Kelli Maroney, Tony O’Dell, Russell Todd, Karrie Emerson, Barbara Crampton, Nick Segal, John Terlesky, Suzee Slater, Paul Bartel, Mary Woronov, Dick Miller, Gerrit Graham, Mel Welles, Angus Scrimm

Taglines:“Where shopping costs you an arm and a leg!”

“Chopping Mall – Where they slash their prices – and their customers!”

“Buy or Die”

“Half Off is just the beginning!”

“At Park Plaza Mall the security force isn’t just tight, it’s terrifying!”

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