Friday the 13th

Kee-kee-kee ma-ma-ma. Kee-kee-kee ma-ma-ma. If I’m ever out fishing or camping and hear those strains, forget calling the park ranger. Notify the SWAT team or the National Guard as Crystal Lake’s most famous son is in the vicinity. But it’s mom who gets top billing over her netminder butcher of an offspring in the first FridayContinue reading “Friday the 13th”

Maniac (1980)

It’s the Casablanca of carnage and the Gone with the Wind of Gore…A case could be made that Maniac is the greatest slasher film of all time. In the era when a killer’s motivations were as absent as their dialogue, Maniac takes you between the ears of maniac Frank Zito, closing the theatrical distance between audience andContinue reading “Maniac (1980)”