The All-Night Video Guide: Slashers 70's & 80's (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798287753634)

The All-Night Video Guide: Slashers 70's & 80's examines how the slasher film searched for its identity in the 1970s, until maturing into what we consider a "slasher movie" today in the 1980s. After countless hours consuming knife-kill flicks, Rob Freese critiques everything from the classics and forgotten gems to the genre's craziest offerings, the flicks that make you wonder what the hell you just watched. Written with wit and respect for the genre, The All-Night Video Guide will help you navigate the blood-stained waters of 70's and 80's slasher cinema.

"A riotously entertaining A-Z of the best, the trashiest and the slashiest of 70s and 80s psycho movies. The perfect guide to relive those halcyon, blood-soaked nights at the drive-in or video store."
-JA Kerswell, Author of The Slasher Movie Book, Co-host of The Hysteria Continues and Webmaster of Hysteria Lives!

"Bring the popcorn! The All-Night Video Guide: Slashers 70's & 80's is a blood-soaked love letter for fans of retro slasher cinema. This book recaptures the illicit excitement of browsing the Slasher section at the local video store in the 1980s."
-Armando Muñoz, author of Black Christmas and Happy Birthday to Me.

"Rob Freese's The All-Night Video Guide: Slashers 70's & 80's is an extremely well written and thoroughly researched compendium of favorite slashers. I keep my copy handy."
-Bud Cooper, director of The Mutilator and Mutilator 2

"An engaging, insightful read that will sit proudly on my shelf next to classics like Adam Rockoff's Going to Pieces and JA Kerswell's The Teenage Slasher Movie Book. Highly recommended to all slasher enthusiasts."
-Gareth 'Slasher Trash' Morgan

"A fun journey through the most entertaining of all sub-genres: the slasher. Even die-hard fans might have missed some of these movies!"
-Cody Hamman, Joblo.com

"An indispensable guide for any devotee of the slasher subgenre, the first volume of The All-Night Video Guide: Slashers 70's & 80's takes a thorough look at the greatest era of hack n' slash cinema, from the tapes that sparked the genre, to the ones that made it famous, and everything in between. Rob's entertaining and easy-to-read reviews are deceptively dense with information and details that will please even the seasoned Videovore, as they celebrate the slasher genre for everything it is, in all its bloody, excessive glory."
-Ted Gilbert, Managing Editor of Lunchmeat

"A thorough examination of the slasher genre, The All-Night Video Guide: Slashers 70's & 80's makes for a great addition to any horror fan's collection."
-Jay Burleson, director of The Third Saturday in October Part V and The Third Saturday in October

"Reading Rob Freese's sprawling list of slashers, proto-slashers, stabbers, gialli, and other variations truly took me back to pouring over Leonard Maltin's movie guides, hoping to find my favorite examples name checked. They're all here, plus numerous others that I either forgot about and need to revisit, or somehow have still never seen. Essential for your reading room, and a great resource for choosing your evening's entertainment!"
-Bill Van Ryn, Drive-in Asylum

"How can you not love any book that starts with Absurd? With each new movie, I was so excited that this covered a favorite until I realized that this gets all of them and then some. If you're a slasher lunatic that lived through 1978-1981, you'll love this. And you'll learn from it if you came after."
-Sam Panico, bandsaboutmovies.com

Author: Rob Freese
ISBN-13: 9798287753634
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 06/13/2025
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.49d