Gory greetings horroryearbook alumni! Your old pal Brain Hammer is back with another batch of Brain Hammer approved PICKS FROM THE CRYPT. This time around I’m throwing the spotlight on a terrible trio of overlooked and underrated 80’s slasher flicks featuring college campus carnage. LET THE BLOODSHED BEGIN!!!

With a title like THE DORM THAT DRIPPED BLOOD, you know you are in for a treat. The dorm the title refers to is 75 year old Morgan Meadows Hall, a former college dormitory that is now condemned and slated for massive renovations. Within the first minute of the movie we see a sweaty, out of sorts fellow running away from something or someone near the dorm. As he cowers in the bushes, an unseen assailant makes their deadly presence known and begins strangling him and hacking away at his hand with a knife. Cue opening credits and some impressively violent sounding violin shrieks.

Gory greetings horroryearbook alumni! Welcome to the 40th edition of Brain Hammer’s PICKS FROM THE CRYPT! It’s hard to believe that I’ve been spewing my deranged ramblings all over this website for almost two fucking years. Time flies when you are having fun. I’d like to thank my drunken and shiftless editor Wil for giving me a place to call home. Big thanks to Molly for sending me all sorts of goodies in the mail (I’m still waiting for those dirty panties you promised me!) and I have to give a big shout out to everyone that has given me positive feedback on the message boards over the last two years.

Gory greeting horroryearbook alumni! This latest edition of PICKS FROM THE CRYPT is dedicated to Jill Schoelen. Jill is one of the more underrated scream queens in my opinion. She appeared in a string of memorable horror flicks including Wes Craven’s Chiller (1985), The Stepfather (1987), Curse II: The Bite (1988), Cutting Class (1989), The Phantom Of The Opera (1989), Popcorn (1991), and When A Stranger Calls Back (1993). Jill has two major assets going for her: she is beautiful, and she is a great actress. I want to be classy in writing this column in hopes that Jill might read it, but I have to go for the cheap laugh. She looks like somebody’s sister… somebody’s sister I would like to fuck. Sorry, I had to say that.

Gory greetings Horroryearbook alumni! In honor of the holiday I present my all time favorite Halloween horror flick that doesn’t have the word Halloween in the title!

Gory greetings horroryearbook alumni! Your old pal Brain Hammer is back from the grave with my latest edition of PICKS FROM THE CRYPT. This time around I’ve selected three of my very favorite flicks featuring a lunatic on a psychotic killing spree. These classics are often overlooked by horror fans and deserve a larger audience. Best of all, all three of these flicks are available on dvd and can easily be found for a reasonable price. LET THE BLOODSHED BEGIN!!!

Gory greetings! Welcome to a very special edition of Brain Hammer’s PICKS FROM THE CRYPT. This week’s PICKS are a terrible trio of cult classic 80’s exploitation flicks from the notorious Spanish writer, producer, and director Juan Piquer Simon. Juan grew up raised on a diet of classic American cinema in his native Spain and considers himself an adamant fan of fantasy, thriller and horror films. Juan Piquer Simon’s efforts are infamous for being so bad, that they’re actually good. Simon has even been called the Spanish answer to Ed Wood.

I’m a huge fan of his flicks, especially the ones featured in this column. Something about the horrible dubbing, the incoherent editing, the incomprehensible plots, the tacky synthesized music; it all adds up to create pure movie magic! For all of their many, many faults, Simon’s flicks are hysterically funny and entertaining as Hell. They also deliver the goods in the splatter and sleaze departments, with plenty of scenes of flesh ripping ferocity. In honor of the one and only Juan Piquer Simon, LET THE BLOODSHED BEGIN!!!