With two summers’ worth of slasher reviews now littering the fine pages of this blog like so many dead insect shells, it seemed like a good time to put them all together in one easily-referenced place. Special Bonus Review: Rob Zombie’s Halloween, which I didn’t really want to watch a second time just so’s I could write a 3000 word essay on all the niggling problems I had with it.
Friday the 13th
–Friday the 13th (Cunningham, 1980)
–Friday the 13th, Part 2 (Miner, 1981)
–Friday the 13th, Part 3 (Miner, 1982)
–Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (Zito, 1984)
–Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (Steinmann, 1985)
–Friday the 13th, Part VI: Jason Lives (McLoughlin, 1986)
–Friday the 13th, Part VII: The New Blood (Buechler, 1988)
–Friday the 13th, Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (Hedden, 1989)
–Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (Marcus, 1993)
–Jason X (Isaac, 2001)
–Freddy vs. Jason (Yu, 2003)
Halloween
–Halloween (Carpenter, 1978)
–Halloween II (Rosenthal, 1981)
–Halloween III: Season of the Witch (Wallace, 1982)
–Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (Little, 1988)
–Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (Othenin-Girard, 1989)
–Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (Chappelle, 1995)
–Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later (Miner, 1998)
–Halloween: Resurrection (Rosenthal, 2002)
–Halloween (Zombie, 2007)
A Nightmare on Elm Street
–A Nightmare on Elm Street (Craven, 1984)
–A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (Sholder, 1985)
–A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (Russell, 1987)
–A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (Harlin, 1988)
–A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (Hopkins, 1989)
–Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (Talalay, 1991)
–Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (Craven, 1994)
–Freddy vs. Jason (Yu, 2003)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
–The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Hooper, 1974)
–The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (Hooper, 1986)
–Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (Burr, 1990)
–Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (Henkel, 1994/1997)
–The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Nispel, 2003)
–The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (Liebesman, 2006)