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Yes, there’s no way the actual book lives up to that cover. Still, looking forward to finding out all the same though.

Our Combatants:

Shelly, from Friday the 13th Part 3: Struggling actor, struggling prankster, struggling romantic. Just struggling.

Chewie, from Friday the 13th (2009): Life of the party. A joker all the way to the bitter business end of a screwdriver.

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Is there a supermarket slasher film with camera angles more inventive than 1989’s Intruder (AKA The Night Crew)?

Not only do you get fun cheesy slasher madness with a slew of Evil Dead II veterans ( Sam and Ted Raimi, Danny Hicks, and Bruce Campbell to name a few), but director Scott Spiegal ( another from the Evil Dead camp) and company have come up with some of the most unusual cams for the action. Here are some of the more notable.

1. Grocery Cart Cam: Just to remind us of what it must feel like to be groceries, or an infant.

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I don’t know if Fred Olen Ray is so serious about pulling the plug on Synergy’s 2-disc SE dvd set of The Giant Spider Invasion, but I do know that since word got out a couple of weeks ago about this particular release possibly being pulled from shelves, said SE is becoming harder and harder to come by.

My copy arrived just today. Synergy’s 2-Disc SE set of The Giant Spider Invasion appears to still be alive and kicking. All eight legs!

Praise be to Crom!

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Warning! Spoilers for Drag Me to Hell Ahead!!

Watching Drag Me to Hell last Friday, the thought crept into my mind about that ongoing eternal push for fans to see a fourth installment in director Sam Raimi’s much-beloved Evil Dead series finally realized. How could I avoid such thoughts? Mere moments past the opening credits, when we hear a diction tape in our heroine’s car, aping the Professor Knowby tape playback from the first two Evil Dead films, Drag Me to Hell reveals itself to be a smorgasbord of callbacks to that earlier series:

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Gone, but not forgotten.

Please forgive the poor quality of the Samurai Cop screen capture above. Criterion has yet to get around to doing a proper transfer of this 1989 thriller. The world waits….

For the uninitiated, just know that Samurai Cop is not a film to be missed by lovers of cheesy cinema, and that for matters of this discussion in particular, I will point out the players of note shown above:

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