Dr. Gore's Funhouse.com » Slashers http://drgoresfunhouse.com A Celebration of the Bizarre and the Macabre Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:51:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 TRAILER TRASH – The Mutilator http://drgoresfunhouse.com/trailer-trash/slashers-trailer-trash/the-mutilator/ http://drgoresfunhouse.com/trailer-trash/slashers-trailer-trash/the-mutilator/#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:59:50 +0000 Christian Sellers http://drgoresfunhouse.com/?p=1677 When Friday the 13th scored a major triumph at the box office during the summer of 1980, it didn’t take long for every producer in town, from the studios down to the independents, to jump on what became the slasher bandwagon. Wannabe directors soon realized that with a meager budget and a cast of enthusiastic hopefuls they too could produce their own no budget slice ‘n’ dice feature. And whilst the pandemonium had all but dried up by the mid-1980s, there were still countless films created for the drive-ins and late-night movie theatres. One such film was The Mutilator.

Buddy Cooper’s one and only feature to date saw Ed (Matt Mitler), a mild-mannered young man who had been responsible for the accidental shooting of his mother as a child. Asked by his estranged father (Jack Chatham) to close up his condo for the winter, Ed invites his friends along for the weekend, only to be slaughtered one by one in a variety of grizzly ways. Whilst Cooper’s film wins no points for originality and the pace is hampered by generic characters and irritating music, it boasts some of the most inspired killings to ever grace a slasher.

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]]> http://drgoresfunhouse.com/trailer-trash/slashers-trailer-trash/the-mutilator/feed/ 0 TRAILER TRASH – Nightmare in a Damaged Brain http://drgoresfunhouse.com/trailer-trash/slashers-trailer-trash/nightmare-in-a-damaged-brain/ http://drgoresfunhouse.com/trailer-trash/slashers-trailer-trash/nightmare-in-a-damaged-brain/#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:15:14 +0000 Christian Sellers http://drgoresfunhouse.com/?p=1658 Romano Scavolini’s 1981 shocker Nightmare is notorious for many things; from the never-ending debate as to who really created the special effects to its inclusion on the ‘Video Nasty’ list in the UK during the 1980s. Sleazy, amateur and sadistic, Nightmare (renamed by its British distributors as Nightmare in a Damaged Brain) was the subject if controversy upon its initial release, further fuelled by a ‘guess the weight of the brain in the jar’ campaign that accompanied its original run.

The deeply disturbed George Tatum (Baird Stafford) has been released from a mental institution, having been incarcerated since he butchered his parents as a child. Having been subjected to various medical experiments in an effort to purge him from his murderous impulses, George sets off on a journey from New York back to Florida to his old family home, where fresh new victims await.

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