Horror trends ebb and flow, but slashers never truly go out of style.
Take the recently debuted trailer for the upcoming A24 horror movie MaXXXine, for example. There’s something oddly comforting about the slasher subgenre, beholden to its rules and its commitment to racking up an impressive body count, that we just can’t get enough of. So, this week’s streaming picks belong to one of the most beloved subgenres of horror.
Only this time, because the slasher subgenre is vast and endless with no shortage of hidden gems, we’re highlighting five underseen slashers you may not have watched yet.
Here’s where you can stream them this week.
For more Stay Home, Watch Horror picks, click here.
Death Spa – AMC+, Plex, Shudder, Tubi, Vudu
Also known as Witch Bitch in Europe, this wacky ‘80s slasher movie takes aim at the decade’s fitness craze in the most entertaining way.
Take the recently debuted trailer for the upcoming A24 horror movie MaXXXine, for example. There’s something oddly comforting about the slasher subgenre, beholden to its rules and its commitment to racking up an impressive body count, that we just can’t get enough of. So, this week’s streaming picks belong to one of the most beloved subgenres of horror.
Only this time, because the slasher subgenre is vast and endless with no shortage of hidden gems, we’re highlighting five underseen slashers you may not have watched yet.
Here’s where you can stream them this week.
For more Stay Home, Watch Horror picks, click here.
Death Spa – AMC+, Plex, Shudder, Tubi, Vudu
Also known as Witch Bitch in Europe, this wacky ‘80s slasher movie takes aim at the decade’s fitness craze in the most entertaining way.
- 4/8/2024
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Like laughter, fear is a universal language. That’s especially true in horror and the slasher subgenre as well. Case in point? Today brings Lithuania’s first slasher movie, We Might Hurt Each Other, to Bloody Disgusting’s Screambox, now streaming exclusively!
Lithuania’s first slasher pays tribute to the golden age of the subgenre while infusing an influence from Eastern European folklore. In Screambox Original We Might Hurt Each Other, “After classmates destroy life-size wooden folk art statues during a wild high school graduation party at a remote cottage, a mysterious killer starts picking them off one by one.”
This week’s streaming picks adhere to an international slasher theme, delivering brutal kills from around the globe. As always, here’s where you can stream them this week…
For more Stay Home, Watch Horror picks, click here.
A Bay of Blood – freevee, Kanopy, Plex, Shout TV
Also known as Twitch of the Death Nerve,...
Lithuania’s first slasher pays tribute to the golden age of the subgenre while infusing an influence from Eastern European folklore. In Screambox Original We Might Hurt Each Other, “After classmates destroy life-size wooden folk art statues during a wild high school graduation party at a remote cottage, a mysterious killer starts picking them off one by one.”
This week’s streaming picks adhere to an international slasher theme, delivering brutal kills from around the globe. As always, here’s where you can stream them this week…
For more Stay Home, Watch Horror picks, click here.
A Bay of Blood – freevee, Kanopy, Plex, Shout TV
Also known as Twitch of the Death Nerve,...
- 7/11/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Based on an adult-oriented manga by “Angel Guts” creator Takashi Ishii, “Mermaid Legend” was Toshiharu Ikeda’s first film after leaving Nikkatsu, and was produced by the Director’s Company and distributed by Atg. The movie won three awards in Yokohama Film Festival, for director, Actress and Cinematography, and despite its exploitation premises, also channels the intense anti-nuclear sentiment of the decade.
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Keisuke, a frequently drunken fisherman who opposes the construction of a nuclear plant in the seaside village he lives with his young wife, is murdered by a group of thugs who are the puppets of the corrupt contractor who is tasked with securing the location for the construction. His wife, Migiwa, actually witnesses the whole thing as it happens while she was diving, a common profession for women of the area who fished that way, barely escaping the murderers herself. When she tries to inform the police,...
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Keisuke, a frequently drunken fisherman who opposes the construction of a nuclear plant in the seaside village he lives with his young wife, is murdered by a group of thugs who are the puppets of the corrupt contractor who is tasked with securing the location for the construction. His wife, Migiwa, actually witnesses the whole thing as it happens while she was diving, a common profession for women of the area who fished that way, barely escaping the murderers herself. When she tries to inform the police,...
- 9/7/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Fans of Japanese horror are almost certain to be familiar with the infamous “Evil Dead Trap” series, an odd amalgamation of East meets West with an absurd edge only really experienced through Japanese cinema. “Evil Dead Trap” is one of those films that is perfect to toi revisit around Halloween. But as we are heading into the summer months, a more idealistic choice would be the other genre-bending film from Toshiharu Ikeda that paints a very violent picture framed by the gorgeous backdrop of a seaside village.
“Mermaid Legend”, at points, has a very contemplative flow to the storytelling, moments of reflection on the seaside as well as a general romanticization of the industry tied to the sea–including some picturesque shots of the infamous pearl divers that have become the subject of interest in many films. The abrupt end to this solitude by way of Migawa (Mari Shirato) losing...
“Mermaid Legend”, at points, has a very contemplative flow to the storytelling, moments of reflection on the seaside as well as a general romanticization of the industry tied to the sea–including some picturesque shots of the infamous pearl divers that have become the subject of interest in many films. The abrupt end to this solitude by way of Migawa (Mari Shirato) losing...
- 5/22/2022
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
Years before the ‘Resident Evil’ and ‘Silent Hill’ franchises, and J-Horror classics such as ‘Ringu’ and ‘Ju-On: The Grudge,’ pulp filmmaker Toshiharu Ikeda created a plethora of pulp films to simultaneously disturb and intrigue his late night viewers. Sadly, Ikeda’s legacy came to an end when he passed away in 2010, but fans of J-horror still uncover, restore, and admire his films today. Arguably Ikeda at his weirdest and best, ‘Evil Death Trap’ is a visceral sexploitation horror from the 80’s which would go on to set the standard for the countless celebrated horror films and video games to come out of Japan within the next decade. With the movie’s recent Unearthed Films restoration, ‘Evil Dead Trap’ has never felt more hideously enthralling.
The story begins at a production studio in the 1980’s, where an almost exclusively female TV crew is desperate for leads on a new story to cover.
The story begins at a production studio in the 1980’s, where an almost exclusively female TV crew is desperate for leads on a new story to cover.
- 9/10/2021
- by Spencer Nafekh-Blanchette
- AsianMoviePulse
I always love new websites that celebrate the art of short films. Short of the Week is a nice new site that features some great stuff, including, yes, short films, but also news and updates. Go bookmark this one. Congrats to Bad Lit fave Jef Taylor for a successful Sundance romp! (You usually hear so little about short films at these kinds of events.) His After You Left got some nice reviews, first at Reel Guys and then at College Movie Review. It was sad to hear that Random Lunacy star Poppa Neutrino passed away last week. The New Yorker‘s Alec Wilkinson, who wrote a book on Poppa, has a wonderful remembrance. Rupert of SnuffBox Films keys us into a great new web video tool, Vid.ly, which converts video into every playable online video format possible. The sample played really great. Mike White posted up an amazing list...
- 1/30/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
It's always sad to report on the passing of people taken before their time. It's even sadder when those taken are responsible for their own deaths. Evil Dead Trap was a strange little Japanese film that garnered a lot of notoriety here in the West. Sadly, the director of it is no longer with us.
According to Japanese websites Hochi Yomiuri and Ameblo, filmmaker Toshiharu Ikeda has been found dead, believed to have committed suicide by drowning.
We here at Dread Central would like to take this time to offer our sincerest of condolences to Ikeda's friends, family, and constituents. Arigatō, sir. May you find the peace in death that eluded you in life. You will be missed.
Thanks to DC reader Dick Winchester for the heads-up.
- Uncle Creepy
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According to Japanese websites Hochi Yomiuri and Ameblo, filmmaker Toshiharu Ikeda has been found dead, believed to have committed suicide by drowning.
We here at Dread Central would like to take this time to offer our sincerest of condolences to Ikeda's friends, family, and constituents. Arigatō, sir. May you find the peace in death that eluded you in life. You will be missed.
Thanks to DC reader Dick Winchester for the heads-up.
- Uncle Creepy
Visit The Evilshop @ Amazon!
Got news? Click here to submit it!
Discuss the man's legacy in the comments section below!
- 1/27/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Very sad news from Japan: It looks as though director Toshiharu Ikeda, who held a place on Movieline's Halloween 25 horror film list for Evil Dead Trap, has been found dead. He is believed to have committed suicide by drowning. Besides a number of exploitation films in the early 80's, including the fourth film in the internationally-infamous Angel Guts series, Ikeda was known in Japan for Mermaid Legend and the 2004 Tokyo International Film Festival selection The Man Behind the Scissors. Rest in peace. [Jasper Sharp]...
- 1/27/2011
- Movieline
Prim department store worker Nami (Jun Uzumi) gets dragged into a seedy underworld of dodgy sexual shenanigans after her 'friend' sets her up to do a porn magazine shoot. After an ill-timed affair with a married man, our heroine with a high sex drive finds her path has inextricably crossed with the local 'pervert', but is he the one stealing girls' knickers? All will be revealed (including some things you perhaps didn’t want to see) in Toshiharu Ikeda’s saucy and sad Red Porno.
The penultimate in the Angel Guts box set is the shortest and certainly the sauciest as our lady of lovin' proves that Diy is not just for men. Delving considerably deeper than its predecessor's crotch shots, this edition in the series serves up hefty slices of masturbation for titillation, making it the most sexually charged of the powerful collection. Though it isn't all self appreciation...
The penultimate in the Angel Guts box set is the shortest and certainly the sauciest as our lady of lovin' proves that Diy is not just for men. Delving considerably deeper than its predecessor's crotch shots, this edition in the series serves up hefty slices of masturbation for titillation, making it the most sexually charged of the powerful collection. Though it isn't all self appreciation...
- 2/25/2009
- by Fiona
- Latemag.com/film
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