Mutilator 2, writer/director Buddy Cooper’s long-awaited follow-up to his 1984 slasher The Mutilator (pick up a copy Here), is ready to make its way out into the world. The movie even screened at Joe Bob Briggs’ latest drive-in Jamboree event back in October, and received an “audience favorite” award there. And yet it still hasn’t secured a distribution deal. Cooper confirmed this on Facebook, where he wrote, “We are still searching for distribution. It might help if a few fans asked their favorite streaming service or theater when they would be showing Mutilator 2. If enough people show an interest, I feel like a distributor would be willing to help get it out to everyone.“
The fact that Shudder hasn’t swooped in to release this as a Shudder Original is shocking, given that they’ve not only had The Mutilator on their streaming service, but even had...
The fact that Shudder hasn’t swooped in to release this as a Shudder Original is shocking, given that they’ve not only had The Mutilator on their streaming service, but even had...
- 12/22/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
It’s time for a new episode of the Real Slashers video series, and with this one we’re looking back at a movie that is finally getting a sequel almost forty years after it was released. It’s the 1984 slasher The Mutilator (watch it Here), and you can find out all about it by watching the video embedded above!
And once you’ve watched The Mutilator get the Real Slashers treatment, you can watch the trailer for the upcoming sequel Mutilator 2 at This Link.
Written and directed by Buddy Cooper, The Mutilator has the following synopsis: When Ed receives a message from his father asking him to go and lock up the family’s beach condo for the winter, it seems like the perfect excuse for an alcohol-fuelled few days away with his friends. After all, his dad has forgiven him for accidentally blowing mom away with a shotgun several years ago…...
And once you’ve watched The Mutilator get the Real Slashers treatment, you can watch the trailer for the upcoming sequel Mutilator 2 at This Link.
Written and directed by Buddy Cooper, The Mutilator has the following synopsis: When Ed receives a message from his father asking him to go and lock up the family’s beach condo for the winter, it seems like the perfect excuse for an alcohol-fuelled few days away with his friends. After all, his dad has forgiven him for accidentally blowing mom away with a shotgun several years ago…...
- 3/15/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
When the "Scream VI" trailer debuted a month ago, slasher flick purists were taken aback by Ghostface's use of a shotgun in the opening bit. This is a slasher flick. Slashers... slash, right?
If you're at all familiar with the genre, you know that the best slasher movies get inventive with their kills. Jason Voorhees famously used a speargun to brilliant 3D effect in "Friday the 13th Part III," Samantha exploded Anne Ramsey's head with a basketball in "Deadly Friend," and pyramid sinkers figure prominently in Buddy Cooper's magnificent "The Mutilator."
The one method of murder that tends to be frowned upon in slasher flicks is gunplay. Sure, antagonists who are closely associated with a certain implement of dispatch have to call an audible every now and then, but firearms are just, in the Grand Guignol tradition, gauche. Unless you're soaring off the rails, you owe it to...
If you're at all familiar with the genre, you know that the best slasher movies get inventive with their kills. Jason Voorhees famously used a speargun to brilliant 3D effect in "Friday the 13th Part III," Samantha exploded Anne Ramsey's head with a basketball in "Deadly Friend," and pyramid sinkers figure prominently in Buddy Cooper's magnificent "The Mutilator."
The one method of murder that tends to be frowned upon in slasher flicks is gunplay. Sure, antagonists who are closely associated with a certain implement of dispatch have to call an audible every now and then, but firearms are just, in the Grand Guignol tradition, gauche. Unless you're soaring off the rails, you owe it to...
- 3/10/2023
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
Fangoria has unveiled the trailer for Mutilator 2, writer/director Buddy Cooper’s long-awaited follow-up to his 1984 slasher The Mutilator (pick up a copy Here), and you can check it out in the embed above! It was previously announced that The Mutilator cast members Ruth Martinez and Bill Hitchcock would be returning for Mutilator 2, despite the fact that Hitchcock’s character died in the first movie, and now the trailer has revealed how that’s possible: this sequel is taking a meta approach! Much like New Nightmare or the Town That Dreaded Sundown update, Mutilator 2 is set in a world where the first film was just a movie. But now someone is bringing the slashing of The Mutilator to life.
The original The Mutilator (a.k.a. Fall Break) had the following synopsis:
Years after the accidental death of his wife, a deranged man starts to slice and dice his son...
The original The Mutilator (a.k.a. Fall Break) had the following synopsis:
Years after the accidental death of his wife, a deranged man starts to slice and dice his son...
- 1/4/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Over 35 years later, the 1984 slasher movie The Mutilator is getting an official sequel this year, and the trailer for The Mutilator 2 was just debuted by Fangoria this afternoon.
Buddy Cooper returned to write and direct the decades-later sequel, which looks to be taking a meta approach to things. The trailer for The Mutilator 2 brings back actors from the original movie and suggests that the murders start anew when a remake begins shooting…
Watch the official trailer for The Mutilator 2 below and expect more soon.
Terry Kiser (Friday The 13th Part VII, Weekend At Bernies) and Damian Maffei (The Strangers: Prey At Night, Haunt) star alongside Ruth Martinez and Bill Hitchcock from the original.
Chaney Morrow (Wrong Turn) and Eva Hamilton (Ruin Me) will also star.
Alexander Taylor (Scream, Queen! My Nightmare On Elm Street, Isolation, Paramount Plus’s Unknown Dimension: The Story Of Paranormal Activity, Arkansas, Eli Roth & Jason Blum...
Buddy Cooper returned to write and direct the decades-later sequel, which looks to be taking a meta approach to things. The trailer for The Mutilator 2 brings back actors from the original movie and suggests that the murders start anew when a remake begins shooting…
Watch the official trailer for The Mutilator 2 below and expect more soon.
Terry Kiser (Friday The 13th Part VII, Weekend At Bernies) and Damian Maffei (The Strangers: Prey At Night, Haunt) star alongside Ruth Martinez and Bill Hitchcock from the original.
Chaney Morrow (Wrong Turn) and Eva Hamilton (Ruin Me) will also star.
Alexander Taylor (Scream, Queen! My Nightmare On Elm Street, Isolation, Paramount Plus’s Unknown Dimension: The Story Of Paranormal Activity, Arkansas, Eli Roth & Jason Blum...
- 1/4/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
All these years later, the 1984 slasher movie The Mutilator is getting an official sequel, and filming wrapped earlier this year. Today, the official poster art has been released.
Buddy Cooper returned to write and direct the decades-later sequel to the slasher he made back in the 1980s. While you wait for more, check out the new poster below.
Terry Kiser (Friday The 13th Part VII, Weekend At Bernies) and Damian Maffei (The Strangers: Prey At Night, Haunt) star alongside Ruth Martinez and Bill Hitchcock from the original.
Chaney Morrow (Wrong Turn) and Eva Hamilton (Ruin Me) will also star.
Alexander Taylor (Scream, Queen! My Nightmare On Elm Street, Isolation, Paramount Plus’s Unknown Dimension: The Story Of Paranormal Activity, Arkansas, Eli Roth & Jason Blum’s Crypt TV) has signed on to score the upcoming sequel, Bloody Disgusting has learned.
Taylor said in a statement, “I’m so honored and excited...
Buddy Cooper returned to write and direct the decades-later sequel to the slasher he made back in the 1980s. While you wait for more, check out the new poster below.
Terry Kiser (Friday The 13th Part VII, Weekend At Bernies) and Damian Maffei (The Strangers: Prey At Night, Haunt) star alongside Ruth Martinez and Bill Hitchcock from the original.
Chaney Morrow (Wrong Turn) and Eva Hamilton (Ruin Me) will also star.
Alexander Taylor (Scream, Queen! My Nightmare On Elm Street, Isolation, Paramount Plus’s Unknown Dimension: The Story Of Paranormal Activity, Arkansas, Eli Roth & Jason Blum’s Crypt TV) has signed on to score the upcoming sequel, Bloody Disgusting has learned.
Taylor said in a statement, “I’m so honored and excited...
- 12/12/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Thirty-eight years after gifting the world a really cool slasher called The Mutilator (pick up a copy Here), writer/director Buddy Cooper has finally gotten around to making a sequel to the film… and over the weekend, he took to social media to unveil the first official poster for Mutilator 2! You can take a look at the poster at the bottom of this article.
Cooper notes that “the woman bound to the nasty looking piling” on the Mutilator 2 poster is Olivia, played by Eva Hamilton of Death Kiss. Producer Jeff Seemann added that “the ocean water was in the 40s when Eva stepped into it for this scene.” So it definitely sounds like it’s a moment worth promoting on the poster.
The original The Mutilator (a.k.a. Fall Break) had the following synopsis:
Years after the accidental death of his wife, a deranged man starts to slice and...
Cooper notes that “the woman bound to the nasty looking piling” on the Mutilator 2 poster is Olivia, played by Eva Hamilton of Death Kiss. Producer Jeff Seemann added that “the ocean water was in the 40s when Eva stepped into it for this scene.” So it definitely sounds like it’s a moment worth promoting on the poster.
The original The Mutilator (a.k.a. Fall Break) had the following synopsis:
Years after the accidental death of his wife, a deranged man starts to slice and...
- 12/12/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
All these years later, the 1984 slasher movie The Mutilator is getting an official sequel, and Bloody Disgusting has learned this week that The Mutilator 2 has now wrapped filming. Buddy Cooper returned to write and direct the decades-later sequel to the slasher he made back in the 1980s, and we’ve been told the film […]
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- 6/28/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Of all the many sub-genres in horror, the slasher is probably my favorite. There aren’t many good ones, but even the bad ones tend to deliver exactly what we want from the formula. They’re horror movie comfort food, and Shudder is offering an entire buffet this October.
Black Christmas (1973, dir. Bob Clark) In many ways the first modern slasher film, Bob Clark’s holiday horror movie is, to this day, a genre masterpiece. From its chilly Canadian atmosphere to the disturbing obscene phone calls being made to a sorority house, Black Christmas is brilliantly constructed and hugely influential. It’s not just one of my favorite slasher movies, but one of my favorite horror movies of any type, full stop.
Blood Rage (1987, dir. Bruce Rubin) There are slasher movies that are tense and scary and stylish. Blood Rage is not one of them. Shot in 1983 but not released...
Black Christmas (1973, dir. Bob Clark) In many ways the first modern slasher film, Bob Clark’s holiday horror movie is, to this day, a genre masterpiece. From its chilly Canadian atmosphere to the disturbing obscene phone calls being made to a sorority house, Black Christmas is brilliantly constructed and hugely influential. It’s not just one of my favorite slasher movies, but one of my favorite horror movies of any type, full stop.
Blood Rage (1987, dir. Bruce Rubin) There are slasher movies that are tense and scary and stylish. Blood Rage is not one of them. Shot in 1983 but not released...
- 10/20/2017
- by Patrick Bromley
- DailyDead
Fans of The Mutilator are in for a treat, because Cavitycolors is releasing a new shirt and pin collection based on the 1985 slasher film.
Available beginning at 5:00pm Est today, The Mutilator collection includes a T-shirt, a baseball tee, and enamel pins (limited to 100). Check out the official details and images below, and keep an eye on Cavitycolors' website around the release time.
From Cavitycolors: "Calling all fans of the 80's slasher gem, The Mutilator!
We have something special (& extra bloody) coming to Cavitycolors this Thursday, May 4th!
A special capsule collection of limited edition items that were designed by myself and Devon Whitehead, and all approved (& licensed) directly from the writer, director, and producer of the film, Buddy Cooper.
The Mutilator easily stands outs from other films of the slasher craze for a variety of reasons, including it's incredibly brutal, mean spirited kill scenes, memorable theme music, and...
Available beginning at 5:00pm Est today, The Mutilator collection includes a T-shirt, a baseball tee, and enamel pins (limited to 100). Check out the official details and images below, and keep an eye on Cavitycolors' website around the release time.
From Cavitycolors: "Calling all fans of the 80's slasher gem, The Mutilator!
We have something special (& extra bloody) coming to Cavitycolors this Thursday, May 4th!
A special capsule collection of limited edition items that were designed by myself and Devon Whitehead, and all approved (& licensed) directly from the writer, director, and producer of the film, Buddy Cooper.
The Mutilator easily stands outs from other films of the slasher craze for a variety of reasons, including it's incredibly brutal, mean spirited kill scenes, memorable theme music, and...
- 5/4/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Horror Highlights: Salt City Horror Film Festival 2017, Full Moon Features Art Book, Moggy Creatures
The 2017 Salt City Horror Film Festival will feature an impressive lineup of 35mm screenings, including An American Werewolf In London and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. In today's Horror Highlights, we also have details and cover art for the Full Moon Features art book and a trailer for Moggy Creatures.
Salt City Horror Film Festival 2017: Press Release: "(Syracuse, NY) The Annual Salt City Horror Film Festival will take place on Saturday, April 15th at The Palace Theater in Syracuse, NY. This year marks the 12th year since the first event and just like every year will include several horror classics screened on original 35mm print, premieres, celebrity guests and several horror themed vendors. Generally hosting between 7-8 total films along with cast and crew Q&A’s, special features and much more, the all day film event begins at 11am and runs all night.
Confirmed films (so far) :...
Salt City Horror Film Festival 2017: Press Release: "(Syracuse, NY) The Annual Salt City Horror Film Festival will take place on Saturday, April 15th at The Palace Theater in Syracuse, NY. This year marks the 12th year since the first event and just like every year will include several horror classics screened on original 35mm print, premieres, celebrity guests and several horror themed vendors. Generally hosting between 7-8 total films along with cast and crew Q&A’s, special features and much more, the all day film event begins at 11am and runs all night.
Confirmed films (so far) :...
- 11/2/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Some films are built from Wtf moments. Case in point: I have finally seen The Mutilator (1984), an unnaturally entertaining hack ‘em up from a period when the dirt had all but covered the coffin of the overworked subgenre. And this film has more than its share of Wtf – in fact, it acts as a Viking funeral for slashers of the era, an absurd catalogue of tropes transmitted with an ‘80s sitcom aesthetic and just as eager to please. What a sight to behold.
Aka Fall Break (a name that will be seared onto your brain pan within the first 15 minutes, trust me), The Mutilator was filmed in North Carolina by local boy Buddy Cooper, who came into some money and decided to either make a movie or buy a winery. And old Buddy boy sure made the right choice – no wine could be sweeter (or more fragrant) than this glorious display of splatter cinema.
Aka Fall Break (a name that will be seared onto your brain pan within the first 15 minutes, trust me), The Mutilator was filmed in North Carolina by local boy Buddy Cooper, who came into some money and decided to either make a movie or buy a winery. And old Buddy boy sure made the right choice – no wine could be sweeter (or more fragrant) than this glorious display of splatter cinema.
- 3/26/2016
- by Scott Drebit
- DailyDead
The Movie
A group of six college students are in for the night of their life where they get drunk, get naked, and get mutilated in a beach house for (when else?) Fall Break! Your leading character, Ed, has had a pretty tragic life. As a boy, Ed accidently shot and killed his mother with a rifle while trying to clean it as a surprise for his father’s birthday. Fast forward about 15 years later, Ed is asked by his father to close up his beach house for the winter. “I’ve got a bad feeling about this.” says Ed.
What Ed and his friends don’t know is that Ed’s dad is a homicidal maniac who still holds a grudge against his son. Despite early signs of things that are clearly about to go terribly wrong in this beach house (missing battle axe, picture of a dead body...
A group of six college students are in for the night of their life where they get drunk, get naked, and get mutilated in a beach house for (when else?) Fall Break! Your leading character, Ed, has had a pretty tragic life. As a boy, Ed accidently shot and killed his mother with a rifle while trying to clean it as a surprise for his father’s birthday. Fast forward about 15 years later, Ed is asked by his father to close up his beach house for the winter. “I’ve got a bad feeling about this.” says Ed.
What Ed and his friends don’t know is that Ed’s dad is a homicidal maniac who still holds a grudge against his son. Despite early signs of things that are clearly about to go terribly wrong in this beach house (missing battle axe, picture of a dead body...
- 3/3/2016
- by Joshua Lightfoot
- Destroy the Brain
Arrow Video continues its assault on pocketbooks on both sides of the Atlantic with its latest releases. We've taken a look at three of their recent Blu-ray discs for you. First up is Gordon Hessler's early '80s ninja classic, Pray for Death starring Sho Kosugi, then is the never before available on digital home video VHS shelf mainstay The Mutilator, directed by Buddy Cooper, finally we turn to director William Girdler for Aip era Pam Grier vehicle Sheba, Baby. All three are a lot of fun and deserve a spin, check out the details below!...
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- 2/29/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Stars: Matt Mitler, Ruth Martinez, Bill Hitchcock, Connie Rogers, Frances Raines, Morey Lampley, Jack Chatham, Ben Moore, Trace Cooper, Pamela Weddle Cooper | Written and Directed by Buddy Cooper
If you are a fan of slasher films, the beauty is that there are plenty to see. Not just the recent ones, but a vast history of films that span decades, and some many of us haven’t had the chance to see yet. One of those for me was The Mutilator, which has recently had the Arrow Video Blu-ray treatment…
Years after accidentally killing his mother while cleaning his father’s guns, Ed Jr. (Matt Miller) and his friends take a vacation at his father’s beach house. With signs that Big Ed (Jack Chatham) has been around they give it little though, but at the teenagers start to disappear, the teenagers soon work out that everything is not all as it seems.
If you are a fan of slasher films, the beauty is that there are plenty to see. Not just the recent ones, but a vast history of films that span decades, and some many of us haven’t had the chance to see yet. One of those for me was The Mutilator, which has recently had the Arrow Video Blu-ray treatment…
Years after accidentally killing his mother while cleaning his father’s guns, Ed Jr. (Matt Miller) and his friends take a vacation at his father’s beach house. With signs that Big Ed (Jack Chatham) has been around they give it little though, but at the teenagers start to disappear, the teenagers soon work out that everything is not all as it seems.
- 2/18/2016
- by Paul Metcalf
- Nerdly
Genre fans have a quiet week of home entertainment releases ahead of them as February 16th features only a handful of horror and sci-fi Blu-ray and DVD offerings. That being said, cult and classic horror film fanatics should be ecstatic with several of the Blus coming out on Tuesday, including The Vincent Price Collection III, The Mutilator, Curse of the Faceless Man and My Science Project, featuring none other than the legendary Dennis Hopper.
Other releases this week include Estranged and Riddle Room.
Curse of the Faceless Man (Kino Lorber, Blu-ray)
Entombed for eons and turned to stone... the Volcano Man of 2,000 years ago stalks the earth to claim his woman! A team of archeologists, led by Dr. Paul Mallon (Richard Anderson, TV’s The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman) excavates a perfectly preserved faceless man of stone encased in lava from a site at ancient Pompeii.
Other releases this week include Estranged and Riddle Room.
Curse of the Faceless Man (Kino Lorber, Blu-ray)
Entombed for eons and turned to stone... the Volcano Man of 2,000 years ago stalks the earth to claim his woman! A team of archeologists, led by Dr. Paul Mallon (Richard Anderson, TV’s The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman) excavates a perfectly preserved faceless man of stone encased in lava from a site at ancient Pompeii.
- 2/16/2016
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
★★☆☆☆ 'By sword, By pick, By axe, Bye bye'. So goes the tagline of Buddy Cooper's all-but-forgotten slasher, The Mutilator, an effective subtitle for a film that can't decide whether it's a black comedy or straight horror, and ends up being little of either. Originally titled Fall Break, The Mutilator is framed with a prologue that sees a young boy accidentally kill his mother while playing with his father's shotgun. The story then jumps forward in time, and while the incident drove the boy's father to alcoholism, it has had apparently no ill effects on his son, Ed (Matt Mitler), who seems content to rack up high scores on 'Video Machine' with his friends. A trip to his beach house is instigated by an unexpected call from his father, who is mysteriously absent when they arrive.
- 2/15/2016
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
This one’s going to be a cake walk, creeps: two vintage 80s slasher flicks and some Vincent Price. Sometimes ancient talismans procured in questionable eBay lots really do work as advertised!
Pieces
• Release Date: Available March 1st on Special edition Blu-ray (2 Blu-rays + CD)
• Written By: Dick Randall, Joe D’Amato
• Directed By: Juan Piquer Simón
• Starring: Christopher George, Lynda Day George, Frank Braña, Paul L. Smith
Pieces had a weird effect on me when I first saw it. I remember thinkin’ it was one of the greatest slasher films I’d e’er slapped my eerie eyeballs upon, as it pretty much had everything that makes the genre so outrageous, only amped up to the nth degree. I also remember thinkin’ “Man, I need to own this film right away; it’s the bat’s knees!” I then sat down, ate a slice of pizza (maybe it was a sandwich…...
Pieces
• Release Date: Available March 1st on Special edition Blu-ray (2 Blu-rays + CD)
• Written By: Dick Randall, Joe D’Amato
• Directed By: Juan Piquer Simón
• Starring: Christopher George, Lynda Day George, Frank Braña, Paul L. Smith
Pieces had a weird effect on me when I first saw it. I remember thinkin’ it was one of the greatest slasher films I’d e’er slapped my eerie eyeballs upon, as it pretty much had everything that makes the genre so outrageous, only amped up to the nth degree. I also remember thinkin’ “Man, I need to own this film right away; it’s the bat’s knees!” I then sat down, ate a slice of pizza (maybe it was a sandwich…...
- 2/12/2016
- by DanielXIII
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
Arrow releases classic downmarket slasher The Mutilator on February 15th. A staple of 80’s video store-haunting horror movie addiction, Buddy Cooper’s brutally gory and cheerfully dumb 1984 slasher sickie The Mutilator is coming to Blu-ray and DVD from Arrow Video UK, after being bumped from the Fall 2015 schedule. It’s one of the last truly…
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- 2/2/2016
- by Chris Alexander
- shocktillyoudrop.com
In this morning's round-up, we have details on not one, not two, but three slasher films. Savage Weekend, Angst, and The Mutilator are set to be released on Blu-ray between late summer and early fall.
Savage Weekend: From Kino Lorber: "Coming September 29th! On Blu-ray and DVD! From a Brand New 2015 HD Master!
Savage Weekend (1979) Starring Christopher Allport, David Gale, Caitlin O'Heaney, Jeff Pomerantz, William Sanderson and Yancy Butler. Written and Directed by David Paulsen.
Blu-ray, packaging, and extras all produced by Walt Olsen (Scorpion Releasing). Another one of his recommendations!
Special Features:
On camera interview with star William Sanderson On camera interview with star Caitlin O'Heaney On camera interview with star Jeff Pomeranz Original Theatrical Trailer"
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Angst: Gerald Kargl's Angst will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on August 18th.
Blu-ray.com reports that "Independent U.S. distributors Cult Epics will release on...
Savage Weekend: From Kino Lorber: "Coming September 29th! On Blu-ray and DVD! From a Brand New 2015 HD Master!
Savage Weekend (1979) Starring Christopher Allport, David Gale, Caitlin O'Heaney, Jeff Pomerantz, William Sanderson and Yancy Butler. Written and Directed by David Paulsen.
Blu-ray, packaging, and extras all produced by Walt Olsen (Scorpion Releasing). Another one of his recommendations!
Special Features:
On camera interview with star William Sanderson On camera interview with star Caitlin O'Heaney On camera interview with star Jeff Pomeranz Original Theatrical Trailer"
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Angst: Gerald Kargl's Angst will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on August 18th.
Blu-ray.com reports that "Independent U.S. distributors Cult Epics will release on...
- 6/15/2015
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
By sword, by pick, by Arrow, The Mutilator comes to DVD & Blu this fall. 1985 cult favortie The Mutilator, a grisly slasher from Buddy Cooper that’s never made it to official U.S. DVD has been announced for a September 29th DVD & Blu from the greats at Arrow Video. Following their loving releases of Mark of the…
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- 6/10/2015
- by Samuel Zimmerman
- shocktillyoudrop.com
When it comes to infamous VHS boxes from the 1980′s, The Mutilator is ever so memorable. I can’t tell you how badly I wanted to get that movie into my Vcr. Every trip to the video store was met with a firm and resounding rejection of this movie with the gorgeous cover art. After years of keenly fingering the box my prayers remained unanswered and gradually my parents wore me out. I no longer asked if could rent The Mutilator. I settled for Violent Shit and The Traces of Death (you’d think they would have read the description or even the titles on those). Years would pass and I would eventually get my hands on this gem and currently own a hand crafted Vhsps copy complete with green bikini babe and gaff hook wielded by a very unhappy hand. It’s not a perfect movie. It’s not even a good movie,...
- 6/5/2012
- by Jimmy Terror
- The Liberal Dead
The Mutilator For fans of the beloved 1980's slasher The Mutilator that have been left out in the dark wondering when this film will ever be released to DVD in the United States, Code Red has come clean on why this film isn't available yet. According to Code Red, a distributor of rare, forgotten about horror films from yesteryear, they have a valid contract with director Buddy Cooper to release the film..
Originally prints and negatives for The Mutilator were thought to be in New York, but upon searching for them, they came up empty handed. Rumors circulated as a video popped up on Youtube with Buddy Cooper showing a storage shack with some 35mm cans in the background. However, again they came up empty in this regard after speaking with the film's director.
Some trims and some trailers were found, but due to poor storage/weather conditions, after 25 years,...
Originally prints and negatives for The Mutilator were thought to be in New York, but upon searching for them, they came up empty handed. Rumors circulated as a video popped up on Youtube with Buddy Cooper showing a storage shack with some 35mm cans in the background. However, again they came up empty in this regard after speaking with the film's director.
Some trims and some trailers were found, but due to poor storage/weather conditions, after 25 years,...
- 4/26/2011
- by Big Daddy aka Brandon Sites
- Big Daddy Horror Reviews - Interviews
Almost one year ago, when we launched at Big Daddy, one of our first posts was about 10 horror films in need of a DVD or Blu-Ray release. The Nesting and Twice Dead which both made the list are now either out on DVD or about to be released. Other titles that made the list included The Pack, Night Warning, Massacre at Central High, Dance of the Damned, Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice, Deadly Blessing, The Kindred and Killer Party. With this second annual edition, we hope to spotlight more horror films that have fallen through the cracks. Titles that haven't been released beyond VHS (with the exception of one, that has only been released to VOD) that need the attention of us horror fans and distributors to make these titles readily available for our horror movie watching enjoyment.
The Power In The Power, an ancient clay idol...
The Power In The Power, an ancient clay idol...
- 3/7/2011
- by Big Daddy aka Brandon Sites
- Big Daddy Horror Reviews - Interviews
Matt Mitler began his indie horror career with the cult favorite The Mutilator in the early 80's. He followed that with a handful of other horror films most notably Frank Henlotter's Basket Case 2. For more info. on what Matt is up to today visit http://www.dziecitheatre.org/ or to find out more about his debut film as director, Cracking Up, Click Here.
For those unfamiliar with Matt Miter, who are you and what are you all about?
I will expedite matters by referring to an abbreviated bio: Matt Mitler has been hospitalized in seven different countries and has a criminal record in the state of New York. He starred in over a dozen grade Z motion pictures in the 80's, before making his own film, "Cracking Up", which won a number of international awards but still isn’t available on DVD. Matt has also been a comic, a mime,...
For those unfamiliar with Matt Miter, who are you and what are you all about?
I will expedite matters by referring to an abbreviated bio: Matt Mitler has been hospitalized in seven different countries and has a criminal record in the state of New York. He starred in over a dozen grade Z motion pictures in the 80's, before making his own film, "Cracking Up", which won a number of international awards but still isn’t available on DVD. Matt has also been a comic, a mime,...
- 8/24/2010
- by Big Daddy aka Brandon Sites
- Big Daddy Horror Reviews - Interviews
It’s hard to surprise people when putting together a list of the best slasher movies and, in the interest of doing so, I thought I’d exclude all the genre mainstays from the list. This list doesn’t necessarily represent the “ten best”, but rather some of the slasher subgenre’s more ‘overlooked’ offerings.
10. The Mutilator (1985)
It can be argued that this film’s greatest asset is its amazing tag line (By Pick, By Sword, By Axe, Bye Bye!), but that’s doing a bit of disservice to director Buddy Cooper’s only attempt to run with the slasher big dogs.
First we’ve got one of the most preposterous killer motivations in the subgenre: a child, cleaning his father’s gun in an attempt to gleam his daddy’s affections, accidentally shoots his mother dead. Dad comes home, flips his lid and viola! Instant slasher!
If you track down the uncut version,...
10. The Mutilator (1985)
It can be argued that this film’s greatest asset is its amazing tag line (By Pick, By Sword, By Axe, Bye Bye!), but that’s doing a bit of disservice to director Buddy Cooper’s only attempt to run with the slasher big dogs.
First we’ve got one of the most preposterous killer motivations in the subgenre: a child, cleaning his father’s gun in an attempt to gleam his daddy’s affections, accidentally shoots his mother dead. Dad comes home, flips his lid and viola! Instant slasher!
If you track down the uncut version,...
- 10/30/2009
- by Masked Slasher
- DreadCentral.com
Opens:
Friday, Feb. 20
Just as National Lampoon's Vacation begat "National Lampoon's European Vacation," so, too, has 2000's hit Road Trip paved the way for Eurotrip. And while it might have been tempting to this dismiss teen comedy as Eurotrash, it really isn't that bad, sophomorically speaking.
Although a number of the gags fall flatter than a crepe, the accent is on the charmingly juvenile as opposed to the purely puerile, with a fresh-faced cast of amiable young performers on hand to make the trek relatively painless.
Obviously DreamWorks, which is giving the picture the slot occupied this time last year by Old School (also from the Road Trip producing team), is looking to capture some of that boxoffice magic, and while Eurotrip isn't nearly as comically inspired, it should still play well with young male-skewing audiences.
Back when Road Trip hit the streets, the gross-out comedy was in full American Pie-fertilized bloom, but with the subgenre having thankfully bottomed out, the new breed likes to mix a little more naivete in with the naughty bits.
Hence the central character of Scotty, played by newcomer Scott Mechlowicz with the same sort of Jason Biggs nice-guy goofiness, a high school grad who finds himself en route to Europe to hook up with his German Internet pen pal Mieke (Jessica Boehrs) shortly after he was very publicly dumped by his girlfriend Fiona (Kristin Kreuk).
But before he gets to Berlin, Scotty and his sex-obsessed Buddy Cooper (Jacob Pitts) make pit stops in London and Paris -- where they hook up with friends Jenny (Michelle Trachtenberg) and her Frommer's Guide-wielding twin brother Jamie (Travis Wester) -- before moving on to Amsterdam, Bratislava, Rome and Vatican City.
Along the way they must deal with British soccer hooligans, annoying French human robots, a merciless Dutch dominatrix (Lucy Lawless) and a creepy, lascivious Italian guy on the train (Saturday Night Live's Fred Armisen).
Not all of it works, but the bright cast makes it mainly agreeable, as do the supporting players, including Matt Damon in a cameo as a tattooed rocker who performs (courtesy of the band Lustra) the very funny and very catchy Scotty Doesn't Know, which takes stock of Scotty's ex-girlfriend's various infidelities.
Making his directorial debut is Jeff Schaffer, who, along with fellow scripters Alec Berg and David Mandel, were former editors of the Harvard Lampoon before graduating to Seinfeld and more recently collaborated on Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat.
Their gently risque style seems better suited to the teen sex comedy than to Dr. Seuss, but the most impressive work here is done by production designer Allan Starski (Schindler's List) and visual effects supervisor Kevin Blank, who manage to create reasonable facsimiles of all the above-mentioned destinations without ever setting foot off of the production's Prague home base.
Eurotrip
DreamWorks Pictures
DreamWorks Pictures presentsa Montecito Picture Co. productionA Berg/Mandel/Schaffer film
Credits:
Director: Jeff Schaffer
Screenwriters: Alec Berg & David Mandel & Jeff Schaffer
Producers: Daniel Goldberg, Jackie Marcus, Alec Berg, David Mandel
Executive producers: Ivan Reitman, Tom Pollick, Joe Medjuck
Director of photography: David Eggby
Production designer: Allan Starski
Editor: Roger Bondelli
Costume designer: Julia Caston
Music: James L. Venable
Cast:
Scotty Thomas: Scott Mechlowicz
Jenny: Michelle Trachtenberg
Cooper Harris: Jacob Pitts
Jamie: Travis Wester
Mieke: Jessica Boehrs
Madame Vandersexxx: Lucy Lawless
Mad Maynard: Vinnie Jones
Creepy Italian Guy: Fred Armisen
Donny: Matt Damon
Fiona: Kristin Kreuk
Running time -- 92 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Friday, Feb. 20
Just as National Lampoon's Vacation begat "National Lampoon's European Vacation," so, too, has 2000's hit Road Trip paved the way for Eurotrip. And while it might have been tempting to this dismiss teen comedy as Eurotrash, it really isn't that bad, sophomorically speaking.
Although a number of the gags fall flatter than a crepe, the accent is on the charmingly juvenile as opposed to the purely puerile, with a fresh-faced cast of amiable young performers on hand to make the trek relatively painless.
Obviously DreamWorks, which is giving the picture the slot occupied this time last year by Old School (also from the Road Trip producing team), is looking to capture some of that boxoffice magic, and while Eurotrip isn't nearly as comically inspired, it should still play well with young male-skewing audiences.
Back when Road Trip hit the streets, the gross-out comedy was in full American Pie-fertilized bloom, but with the subgenre having thankfully bottomed out, the new breed likes to mix a little more naivete in with the naughty bits.
Hence the central character of Scotty, played by newcomer Scott Mechlowicz with the same sort of Jason Biggs nice-guy goofiness, a high school grad who finds himself en route to Europe to hook up with his German Internet pen pal Mieke (Jessica Boehrs) shortly after he was very publicly dumped by his girlfriend Fiona (Kristin Kreuk).
But before he gets to Berlin, Scotty and his sex-obsessed Buddy Cooper (Jacob Pitts) make pit stops in London and Paris -- where they hook up with friends Jenny (Michelle Trachtenberg) and her Frommer's Guide-wielding twin brother Jamie (Travis Wester) -- before moving on to Amsterdam, Bratislava, Rome and Vatican City.
Along the way they must deal with British soccer hooligans, annoying French human robots, a merciless Dutch dominatrix (Lucy Lawless) and a creepy, lascivious Italian guy on the train (Saturday Night Live's Fred Armisen).
Not all of it works, but the bright cast makes it mainly agreeable, as do the supporting players, including Matt Damon in a cameo as a tattooed rocker who performs (courtesy of the band Lustra) the very funny and very catchy Scotty Doesn't Know, which takes stock of Scotty's ex-girlfriend's various infidelities.
Making his directorial debut is Jeff Schaffer, who, along with fellow scripters Alec Berg and David Mandel, were former editors of the Harvard Lampoon before graduating to Seinfeld and more recently collaborated on Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat.
Their gently risque style seems better suited to the teen sex comedy than to Dr. Seuss, but the most impressive work here is done by production designer Allan Starski (Schindler's List) and visual effects supervisor Kevin Blank, who manage to create reasonable facsimiles of all the above-mentioned destinations without ever setting foot off of the production's Prague home base.
Eurotrip
DreamWorks Pictures
DreamWorks Pictures presentsa Montecito Picture Co. productionA Berg/Mandel/Schaffer film
Credits:
Director: Jeff Schaffer
Screenwriters: Alec Berg & David Mandel & Jeff Schaffer
Producers: Daniel Goldberg, Jackie Marcus, Alec Berg, David Mandel
Executive producers: Ivan Reitman, Tom Pollick, Joe Medjuck
Director of photography: David Eggby
Production designer: Allan Starski
Editor: Roger Bondelli
Costume designer: Julia Caston
Music: James L. Venable
Cast:
Scotty Thomas: Scott Mechlowicz
Jenny: Michelle Trachtenberg
Cooper Harris: Jacob Pitts
Jamie: Travis Wester
Mieke: Jessica Boehrs
Madame Vandersexxx: Lucy Lawless
Mad Maynard: Vinnie Jones
Creepy Italian Guy: Fred Armisen
Donny: Matt Damon
Fiona: Kristin Kreuk
Running time -- 92 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 3/15/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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