Limited Edition Mountaintop Motel Massacre...

88 Films have knocked it out of the park on this one. A highly sort after classic slasher that I'm pretty much gagging to see and it's available for preorder right now. Not to mention it's being remastered in 2k.

88 Film shop - Mountaintop Motel Massacre Limited Edition Blu-ray

Scarecrows from 88 Films...

The good people at 88 Films from the UK unleashed this epic announcement...

'Friday Announcement Part #1
When it comes to terror they're in a field of their own!
For this Friday's announcement (#4) we're adding to our slasher range! lost track of which number we are at now but seeing as nightmares in a damaged brain is almost impossible to get hold of we will stick it in at number 12 for the time being! ( btw Nightmares is available from our website FULLY UNCUT still http://88-films.myshopify.com/…/nightmare-in-a-damaged-brai…)

anyway... OUT JULY (*probably)
SCARECROWS (1988) Five criminals find themselves parachuting, with their "ill-gotten goods" into an abandoned cemetary. But this bone-yard is guarded by some nasty scarecrows, and they aren't made of straw.
Can't decide which cover to use and which one to use as the reverse?
*also available on DVD, VHS and 16mm'

That's a score for me as I never got round to importing the Scream Factory release. In case you are wondering the other half of todays announcement was Chuck Norris action epic Invasion U.S.A which is no doubt a can't miss release in it's own right but doesn't fit the criteria of slasher clssic in the slightest.

Drive-In Massacre and Sleepaway Camp 2 & 3 coming from 88 Films...

Those wonderful people behind the Slasher Classics Collection have announced another classic slasher gem yet to make it to Blu-Ray. Drive-In Massacre! Great news for me as like so many of these more obscure slashers I've never seen it.

But wait it gets even better. They have also announced two other corkers. Sleepaway Camp 2 & 3! Two true classics in my view. I really hope part 3 includes the uncut work print like the region locked Scream Factory blu-ray. Fantastic news for UK slasher fans. I Love these movies. For my money part one is not nearly as good and is only fondly remembered for the admittedly awesome ending.

But hang on there's one more thing. 88 Films are doing a new HD master of Nightmare in a Damaged Brain!  That's pretty freaking awesome!

from 88 Films Facebook...

'A year before the slasher boom really hit its stride with John Carpenter's legendary trendsetter HALLOWEEN, there was DRIVE-IN MASSACRE - an early slice and dice prototype that is finally achieving its rightful reappraisal courtesy of a brand new 2k scan from the splatter movie addicts at 88 Films! This worldwide HD debut indicates that DRIVE-IN MASSACRE was, in many ways, ahead of its time - spinning a sleazy story about a clueless police investigation into a madman who is carving up spectators at outdoor cinemas across California! Introducing the sort of giallo framework that the post-FRIDAY THE 13th teenkill genre would later take as its own, DRIVE-IN MASSACRE was directed with the expert grindhouse touch of Stu Segall, the man who oversaw Marilyn Chambers in INSATIABLE (1980) before producing such hit TV series as RENEGADE. A lively and lacerating bout of lunatic slasher energy, 88 Films is proud to give DRIVE-IN MASSACRE its worldwide BluRay bow in a new transfer approved by Segall himself!

Extras and details TBC
(Coming Early 2016)'

'Back in the heyday of horror franchises, one little slasher classic changed the gore-game entirely - 1988's body count bonanza SLEEPAWAY CAMP II: UNHAPPY CAMPERS.

Long before Wes Craven's masterful SCREAM (1996) turned the slice and dice trend on its head with its sense of pastiche and postmodern references, SLEEPAWAY CAMP II was nodding its noggin towards everything from A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET to THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE with genre in-jokes galore. In this suitably satirical sequel to 1983's gender-bending original flick, the great Pamela Springsteen (sister of Bruce!) headlines as the puritanical Angela Johnson, returning to murderous form as a summer camp counselor who can't wait to drill, drown and destroy an entire backwoods full of frisky teenagers and stuffy colleagues. With some winning eighties mullets, a likeable final girl in the beautiful Renée Estevez (INTRUDER) and guts-to-the-ground gruesome special effects, SLEEPAWAY CAMP II is one of the finest fear follow-ups of all time! Finally released in all of its HD horror, 88 Films is proud to present one of the defining VHS hits of its era.

Extras and details to be confirmed.
(Coming Early 2016)'

'The death and destruction continues in 1989's darkly comedic, and thoroughly demented, sequel SLEEPAWAY CAMP III: TEENAGE WASTELAND

Once again returning as the riotous Angela Johnson, star Pamela Springsteen just cannot seem to keep away from summer camp carnage - this time going undercover as a teen-refugee seeking some solace and understanding from a pleasant old backwoods retreat. Alas, when she only finds sexed up teens and party-happy adults, her sense of virginal duty is called into action and she beings tidying up the trash. Using everything from a lawnmower to a firecracker to a gun, our wise-cracking anti-heroine soon loses count of the corpses - although a final homage to THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME gives her last survivors a sporting shot at making it out of the woods alive. Released at the tail-end of the slice and dice terror-trope movement, and co-starring the great Michael J Pollard (BONNIE AND CLYDE), SLEEPAWAY CAMP III is pure eighties mayhem - and one of the most malevolent macabre movies ever unleashed!

Finally carving its way back to UK shelves, this is the HD horror sequel you have all been waiting for!

Extras and details TBC
(Coming Early 2016)'

'Our first announcement is actually an apology. We have had to put Nightmare in a Damaged Brain back a few weeks as we have been trying to obtain a sample of a newly created answer print scan.

This finally came through today and it looks fantastic so we've decided to go ahead and make a NEW HD Master. This will be done very soon and we will be able to give a firm final release date in the next couple of weeks.

Thank you for your patience and we really hope you like the new transfer.'

TWO MASSIVE THUMBS UP!

Blood Sucking Pharoahs in Pittsburgh coming from 88 Films...

My favourite UK label have announced this corker. The latest edition to the Blu-ray Slasher Classics Collection. This why 88 Films are so special.  I haven't even heard of this obscure sardonic slasher before. Really looking forward to it.

Here's what 88 Films said in the announcement on Facebook...

'In the same satirical spirit as HOLLYWOOD CHAINSAW HOOKERS or STUDENT BODIES, comes 1991's unfairly obscure splatter send-up BLOODSUCKING PHARAOHS IN PITTSBURGH.

Originally entitled PICKING UP THE PIECES, and featuring special effects from the great Tom Savini (MANIAC/ DAY OF THE DEAD), this first class mix of gore and guffaws makes its worldwide BluRay debut from 88 Films. Starring Veronica Hart, the erstwhile adult movie legend, as a weapon-wielding femme-fatale who is dedicated to lopping off limbs and chalking up a high body count in the name of an ancient religious cult, BLOODSUCKING PHARAOHS IN PITTSBURGH is one of the most deranged darkly humoured hack 'em ups that you have (probably) never seen.
Proving that the female of the species is far deadlier than the male, this latest addition to 88 Films' influential Slasher Classics Collection is a true gem of slice and dice delirium waiting to be rediscovered...'

88 Films are really doing some special slasher & cult movie fans. Please show your support when ever you can. Apparently they have another Slasher to announce in the not so distant future. Very exciting. For a while most of the slasher BD's were coming from the US but recently 88 Films have really turned the tide.

88 Films announce more of The Slasher Classics Collection...

By the power of Grey Skull!!! 88 Films have really pulled out all the stops with this incredibly exciting announcement. Here's a couple of snippets of the full article at Peek-A-Boo Magazine...

'88 Films is proud to announce four worldwide BluRay premieres as part of the SLASHER CLASSICS COLLECTION – each debuting with new HD scans from the original materials approved by the directors themselves'


'Adds James Blower: “It has been a long process in trying to sort out the titles for wave two of our ‘Slasher Classics Collection’. The bar was set high by the first line of films and we really did not want to disappoint. However, we are thrilled that four great movies are now ‘out of the vaults’ and coming back to UK shelves in great-looking editions. It is madness to think that SPLATTER UNIVERSITY, SLAUGHTERHOUSE and SCALPS have not even had a DVD release in Britain yet! And as for HOLLYWOOD CHAINSAW HOOKERS… well, who doesn’t want to see Linnea and Michelle in HD?”'

Peek-A-Boo-Magazine

This is spectacular news and I for one am very excited. They are already bringing us Graduation Day, Mother's day and Don't Go In The Woods... Alone! If all goes well with the transfers then 88 Films will be my new favourite Blu-ray company. All the titles are completely new to me. It looks like my patience is about to pay off big time.