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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.

Screambox and Midnight Pulp are excited to unleash Visitors (The Complete Edition), Kenichi Ugana‘s Japanese anthology movie that opens with one of the goriest shorts we’ve ever seen.

In the 60-minute splatterfest…

“A rock ‘n’ roll band drop in unannounced on a friend and find themselves plummeting into a wackadoo reverie of monsters and mayhem.”

After premiering at this year’s Fantastic Fest, Visitors makes its way to VOD platforms Screambox before heading to Midnight Pulp at a later date.

Get ready for Evil Dead-esque gory mayhem in Visitors. Dig the trailer…

Also recently added to Screambox is Door, an extremely rare home invasion slasher movie from 1988 that has never been screened outside of Japan and has just been remastered. The final 20 minutes are bonkers!

In the film…

“A lonely housewife is held hostage in her own apartment by an increasingly deranged door-to-door salesman in this forgotten home invasion masterpiece.

Screambox and Midnight Pulp are excited to unleash Visitors (The Complete Edition), Kenichi Ugana‘s Japanese anthology movie that opens with one of the goriest shorts we’ve ever seen.

In the 60-minute splatterfest, which hits Screambox tomorrow…

“A rock ‘n’ roll band drop in unannounced on a friend and find themselves plummeting into a wackadoo reverie of monsters and mayhem.”

After premiering at this year’s Fantastic Fest, Visitors makes its way to VOD platforms and Screambox before heading to Midnight Pulp at a later date.

Get ready for Evil Dead-esque gory mayhem in Visitors. Dig the trailer…

Also recently added to Screambox is Door, an extremely rare home invasion slasher movie from 1988 that has never been screened outside of Japan and has just been remastered. The final 20 minutes are bonkers!

In the film…

“A lonely housewife is held hostage in her own apartment by an increasingly deranged...

Door, an extremely rare home invasion slasher movie from 1988 that has never been screened outside of Japan and has just been remastered, is now streaming exclusively on Screambox!

In the film…

“A lonely housewife is held hostage in her own apartment by an increasingly deranged door-to-door salesman in this forgotten home invasion masterpiece.”

The final 20 minutes are bonkers!

Directed by Banmei Takahashi, the story behind Door is extremely interesting.

Many of you may remember Director’s Company, a Japanese production company from 1982-1992 that was made up of many legends of Japanese cinema including Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Sogo Ishii, Shinji Somai, and others.

They made many amazing Japanese films but also broke ground for genre cinema in Japan including the cult classic Evil Dead Trap. Before Evil Dead Trap they made the first Giallo film in Japan… Door. Interestingly, Kiyoshi Kurosawa directed the film’s sequel!

Halloween is almost here and Screambox‘s October has been jam-packed,...

Door, an extremely rare home invasion slasher movie from 1988 that has never been screened outside of Japan and has just been remastered, is making its way to Screambox tomorrow!

In the film, “A lonely housewife is held hostage in her own apartment by an increasingly deranged door-to-door salesman in this forgotten home invasion masterpiece.”

Directed by Banmei Takahashi, the story behind Door is extremely interesting.

Many of you may remember Director’s Company, a Japanese production company from 1982-1992 that was made up of many legends of Japanese cinema including Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Sogo Ishii, Shinji Somai, and others.

They made many amazing Japanese films but also broke ground for genre cinema in Japan including the cult classic Evil Dead Trap. Before Evil Dead Trap they made the first Giallo film in Japan… Door. Interestingly, Kiyoshi Kurosawa directed the film’s sequel!

The final 20 minutes are bonkers… trust us!!

Halloween is almost...

On October 24th, Screambox is premiering the highly sought-after Door, an extremely rare home invasion slasher movie from 1988 that has never been screened outside of Japan and has just been remastered. The final 20 minutes are bonkers!

Following its premiere on Screambox, Door will make its way to Blu-ray this November from Terror Vision. You can pre-order it here.

In the film…

“A lonely housewife is held hostage in her own apartment by an increasingly deranged door-to-door salesman in this forgotten home invasion masterpiece.”

Directed by Banmei Takahashi, the story behind Door is extremely interesting.

Many of you may remember Director’s Company, a Japanese production company from 1982-1992 that was made up of many legends of Japanese cinema including Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Sogo Ishii, Shinji Somai, and others.

They made many amazing Japanese films but also broke ground for genre cinema in Japan including the cult classic Evil Dead Trap. Before Evil Dead Trap...

Screambox is once again heading to Fantastic Fest (September 21 – 28), bringing two brand new Japanese horror films that are going to absolutely blow your collective minds.

The first is Door, an extremely rare home invasion slasher movie from 1988 that has never been screened outside of Japan and has just been remastered. The final 20 minutes are bonkers!

In the film…

“A lonely housewife is held hostage in her own apartment by an increasingly deranged door-to-door salesman in this forgotten home invasion masterpiece.”

Directed by Banmei Takahashi, the story behind Door is extremely interesting.

Many of you may remember Director’s Company, a Japanese production company from 1982-1992 that was made up of many legends of Japanese cinema including Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Sogo Ishii, Shinji Somai, and others.

They made many amazing Japanese films but also broke ground for genre cinema in Japan including the cult classic Evil Dead Trap. Before Evil Dead Trap they...

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,...

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...

From the Scriptwriter of Akira and Director of Lucky Sky Diamond, Izô Hashimoto, Evil Dead Trap 2: Hideki is coming to blu-ray in 2022 from Unearthed Films! Plot: A killer is on the loose in Japan. Young women are being horribly mutilated. Aki, a young woman who works as a film projectionist, is haunted by …

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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.

Hello, dear readers! We’re back with a brand new assortment of horror and sci-fi home media releases this week, and as we creep closer and closer towards Halloween, there are definitely a handful of titles coming out on Tuesday that would be fun to check out as you get ready for the spooky season. Arrow Video is keeping busy with a handful of releases, including a 4K version of Dario Argento’s The Cat O’ Nine Tails and Blind Beast. And speaking of Argento, Blue Underground is showing Two Evil Eyes - his collaboration with George A. Romero - some love with their 4K presentation of the film. Larry Cohen’s A Return to Salem’s Lot is finally getting a Blu-ray, and if you missed the latest Conjuring film in theaters earlier this year, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It is headed home on multiple formats this week as well.

Review by Roger Carpenter

In Japanese history the Meiji Period, which lasted from 1868 – 1912, saw Japan change from a centuries-old isolated feudal society to a more modern society. The Meiji Period saw Japan being opened to the West and the influence of Europe and America on Japanese culture and society. This period was a time of immense change for the Japanese. It was followed by a very short-lived period called the Taisho period, which lasted just 14 years, from 1912 – 1926. The Taisho Period was a time of liberalism and democratic thinking in Japan, and also marked the beginning of a creative movement called ero guro nansensu. Based upon the shortened English words erotic, grotesque, and nonsense, the ero guro nansensu movement began in literature and art, eventually expanding into theatre, film, and even music.

Over time the original intent of the movement has evolved from an exploration of ideas or objects that were malformed,...

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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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]...

An impaled lovely from Evil Dead Trap–a classic Japanese slasher; Friday the 13th Part II and Twitch of the Death Nerve get impaled in more ways than one; When a Killer Calls gets it in the mouth; Return to Sleepaway Camp is the fricken pisser and pops some major wood; Everyone needs a hammer-mallet-thingy as big as that guy in Blood of the Vampire. Post from: Screamstress

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