The Slayer

Year: 1981

Director: J.S. Cardone

Written by: William R. Ewing

Threat: Mutant

Weapon of Choice: Pitch fork

Based upon: none

IMDb page: IMDb link

     

Other movies in this series:
None

The tyranist's thoughts
Of the two of us, Rish has always been the artist. He's loved to draw ever since he tried to emulate his first Spider-Man comic. Me, I doodle occasionally. And never a lot when I do. The fact that my notes for this movie are covered in doodles should tell you something about it.
So a woman and her husband(?) and another woman and her husband(?) are headed to a basically deserted island with a mysterious past for a weekend retreat. The woman doesn't want to go. Apparently she sometimes has prescient dreams. Most of these dreams she commits to canvas. Which disturbs the people around her. Anyway, they are there and then there's this thing that is never explained and a storm that makes it so they can't leave (although it only seems to be stormy at night so I couldn't figure out why they never left during daylight) and people die.
The movie was pretty forgettable. Made on a super-low budget at the beginning of the '80s, it just doesn't have much to offer. Really, it is too bad that a lot of these movies got made just to cash in on the horror craze.
I'd skip it if I were you. And if you happen upon the double bill package that also features Scalps, I'd definitely skip it.

Total Skulls: 18

Sequel
Sequel setup
Rips off earlier film
Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie
Future celebrity appears
Former celebrity appears
Bad title
Bad premise
Bad acting
Bad dialogue
Bad execution
MTV Editing
OTS
Girl unnecessarily gets naked
Wanton sex
Death associated with sex
Unfulfilled promise of nudity
Characters forget about threat
Secluded location skullskull
Power is cut skull
Phone lines are cut
Someone investigates a strange noise skullskull
Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door
Camera is the killer
Victims cower in front of a window/door
Victim locks self in with killer
Victim running from killer inexplicably falls skull
Toilet stall scene
Shower/bath scene
Car stalls or won't start
Cat jumps out
Fake scare
Laughable scare
Stupid discovery of corpse skull
Dream sequence skullskull
Hallucination/Vision
No one believes only witness
Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth
Warning goes unheeded skull
Music detracts from scene
Death in first five minutes skull
x years before/later
Flashback sequence
Dark and stormy night skullskull
Killer doesn't stay dead
Killer wears a mask
Killer is in closet
Killer is in car with victim
Villain is more sympathetic than heroes
Unscary villain/monster
Beheading
Blood fountain
Blood spatters - camera, wall, etc.
Poor death effect
Excessive gore
No one dies at all
Virgin survives
Geek/Nerd survives
Little kid lamely survives
Dog/Pet miraculously survives
Unresolved subplots skull
"It was all a dream" ending skull
Unbelievably happy ending
Unbelievably crappy ending skull
What the hell? skullskull