 edition of frightfully forgotten horror movies but first off what are we drinking today drag me to hell is today we're gonna be talking about another 1982 movie it is called The Slayer and sometimes in some regions called Nightmare Island which actually I think is a better title for the movie yeah it fits it's more fitting yeah it's directed by J.S. Cardone it stars Sarah Kendall and she was famously in Chronicid 2 a stewardess number two also stars Alan McCray and he is in three of the three ninja movies Hogan's super in that to pay the movie starts out with the main character Kay she's having a dream she ends up getting attacked by a monster and her face gets grabbed and she gets pulled away and she wakes up Kay is an abstract artist and she paints what she dreams her boyfriend the shitty mustache the 80s mustache he thinks that she's overworked and so she needs a vacation he gets her brother and his wife and they set off for this island smoking in the plane and it's awesome super in closed area pilots all weird and creepy that Pierre Trudeau pilot guy when they land it turns out that like there's no taxi service on this island so they got a walk from the plane miles to where this beach house is and on the way they pass this kind of abandoned run-down theater Kay stops and she looks at it and I've seen this in my dreams I've painted this so while they're in the house the pilot guy knocks on the door warning them that there's a hurricane coming it cuts to this old fisherman guy all of a sudden someone takes an ore and just clubs them right in the head cracks this is called pretty much in half yeah that night they're all trying to sleep Kay's boyfriend David hears something eventually he makes it down to the basement shadows and he's slow and he's trying to find where this noise is coming from an old abandoned elevator shaft eventually goes up to and pokes his head in door for the elevator shaft closes on his head yeah severs his head right off and then it shows his body being dragged up into the shaft Kay wakes up David's next to her she goes to go kiss him takes the blanket off and it's just the head he's kissing this fucking dead head to severed head and then she wakes up and that was a dream they find out of course David's missing the other two thing while he just took off really to go fishing or whatever the next day he's still missing and she goes out to go look for him Kay goes to the old abandoned theater and eventually goes up upstairs to like the balcony and looking out the window and nice beautiful scenery and turns around behind her is what's left of David minus his head Eric suspects maybe it's the pilot Kay thinks that it is her own dreams which is causing the murders Eric goes to the boathouse to get some flares because then he'd help and goes out to the dock to prepare to fire the flares and fishing line comes out of nowhere wraps around his neck and drags him into the water and it's a great scene because it's all shadowy to see him being dragged into the darkness his wife wakes up because now he's missing and she goes to the boathouse there's this point of view pitchfork scene where this pitchfork is coming towards her just the way it's done and the pacing of it all is great has to break through the window to get out and you can see her grab the edges of the window and her hands being sliced open you're like she's gonna make it she's out she's gonna make it right through as soon as you think she's out that window and she's safe then Kay wakes up and she you know she goes looking for her friends and she finds them all dead on the beach the next morning she runs into the house boards up the house wrecking everything all the place wrecking the whole house and so she's just drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes and burning herself with these cigarettes to stay awake she has the fridge in front of this one door the fridge starts rocking and this hand comes out to the top of the door and that's where we're gonna end it yeah if you want to find out what happens to Kay and her dreams and whether it's a man or a monster stalking her finish watching the Slayer one of the best things is the production value of it and for 1982 I mean it looks fantastic cinematography is really good the lighting is really good the locations it's kind of a classy looking movie it looks like a James Bond movie yeah kind of yeah on the beach and everything and they do a great job of the atmosphere as well the vacation aspect of it you let your guard down a little bit looks all nice and then the killing starts happening the atmosphere kind of gets a little dark and grim and then you don't want to be there anymore and they do a great job of that as well even though as beautiful as it is you have the sense of no escape yeah this beach has these big hunks of rock even that creates this kind of like isolation like these like you're walled in theater the rundown theater is a really cool neat setting the 80s isn't really found their footing yet yet not yet it's still the 70s it's still kind of 70s and this movie is a very 70s vibe the kills and the effects are very 80s so it's got this really neat kind of mesh between a 70s feeling and looking movie with 80s effects 80s style like Slasher kills and even the music is kind of a neat blend because the music is like very orchestral and big orchestra score it's really good yeah but there's odd little synthesizer thing happening too so the 80s are creeping in a little bit the effects are fantastic in this movie they're top-notch they are they are top-notch and the movie manages to build a lot of tension there's a lot of story and dynamic yeah in this movie but it all centers around characters too right the movies a little bit slow going but that really helps building the tension yeah because you know something's gonna go on it's like something's got to happen here soon the shit's got to hit the fan right before every kill there's a huge build-up when David is going through the basement before he gets up to the shaft yeah long scene you know something you watch him walk through the whole house almost in real time like it's a real build-up yeah and you know it's going somewhere and when it finally gets there it's a hell of a payoff and same thing at the end where K is bordered herself into the house she's just in the house by herself like it's a long scene of her just being there by herself trying to stay awake and yeah nodding off and it's really does a good job of okay something's gonna happen at some point she keeps waking up though too right you're like okay fall asleep already so something can happen but she doesn't and takes a while table with the glassware in front of that one door and you could that to catch her yeah you can see the doors trying to be pushed open and the glasses are kind of like yeah I was thinking too like that's that's a nice looking to can turn on a glassware yeah the whiskey that could go on that to can turn oh they do a great job of misdirecting you in this movie oh yeah you think that he's the one that's doing something right the guy who's renting that that house to them yeah they mention it themselves like well maybe it's this guy that's doing something is there a man out there is it a monster like we've seen in the dreams the dream aspect of it is pretty neat and ahead of its time like it this is for nightmare in Elm Street the classic scene in nightmare where Nancy is trying to stay away drinking the coffee well this movie did did it first yeah and the whole aspect of dreams killing they be craving to the punch on this one you know and it keeps you wondering like what are the dreams have to do with it is she the killer yeah you like that's the thing you don't know until the end and speaking of the end it's a very cool let's you put your own interpretation on to what has happened in this movie and you think it may be a cop out but it really isn't no it's not at all your fan of movies like well nightmare in Elm Street American Gothic the remote island and someone's killing you yeah exactly check out 1982's this slayer and keep drinking