Census Bloodbath: 1982

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Phew! We made it out of the slasher gauntlet of 1981! While it's known as the Golden Year, the rather comprehensive scope of this project necessitated that I also visit the worst slasher entries imaginable, so that might be why it took me, oh, two years to finish that particular section... I gotta pick up the pace.

1982 isn't going to give me a chance to catch my breath, because although we've left the Golden Age behind, the slasher boom was still hitting America in full force, giving us the largest quantity of slasher movies in a single year in the history of cinema: a whopping 43. I guess it's time to get cracking and get over the hump! After this, Census Bloodbath will be a breeze, he lied.

So what does 1982 have on offer for us? Take a look...

Census Bloodbath: 1982

Movies in bold are films I have already seen but will review again. Once I write each review, I will link to it from this page.

Madman (January 1)
Fantasies/The Studio Murders (January 18)

The Seduction (January 29)

Night Warning (February)

Devil Returns (February 17)

The New York Ripper/Lo squartatore di New York (March 4)

Shock: Evil Entertainment/Shock: Diversão Diabólica (March 12)

The Dorm That Dripped Blood/Pranks (April)

Hospital Massacre/X-Ray (April)

Pandemonium (April)

Basket Case (April 2)

Silent Rage (April 2)
Tag: The Assassination Game (April 20)

Death Screams (May)

Death Valley (May 7)

Visiting Hours (May 28)

The Forest (June 11)

Humongous (June 11)

Honeymoon Horror (June 15)
Till Death Do Us Part (June 18)

Girls Nite Out (June 20)

Exposed to Danger/Sha chu chong wei (July 9)

Ghostkeeper (August)

He Lives by Night/Ye jing hun (August 5)

Friday the 13th Part 3: 3D (August 13)

Mongrel (August 23)

Superstition (August 26)

The Incubus (August 27)

The Scorpion With Two Tails/Assassinio al cimitero etrusco (September 17)

Pieces/Mil gritos tiene la noche (September 23)

Next of Kin (October)

The Slayer (October)

Blood Song (October 1)

The Last Horror Film (October 9)

Deadly Games (October 12)

Unhinged (October 15)

Hotline (October 16)
The Clairvoyant/The Killing Hour (October 24)

Tenebrae (October 28)

National Lampoon's Class Reunion (October 29)

Trick or Treats (October 29)

Blood Link (November 10)

Alone in the Dark (November 12)

The Slumber Party Massacre (November 12)

Wacko (November 12)
Murder by Phone (December)

Don't Go To Sleep (December 10)

Boardinghouse (December 31)

Midnight (December 31)

Dark Sanity (unknown)

Early Frost (unknown)

The Icebox Murders/El Cepo (unknown)

Whodunit?/Island of Blood (unknown)

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