Episode Details

Greetings and welcome back to Horror Business. We have one awesome episode in store for you guys. In this episode we’re talking about 1981’s Deadly Blessing and 1982’s The Slayer

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We start by briefly discussing what we’ve done lately involving horror. We talk about Wes Craven’s career for a bit.  Liam talks about watching the documentary Scream, Queen! and Justin talks about the Netflix series Bataal and Ghoul.

Up first is Deadly Blessing. We give a brief summary of the film, which sticks with being a slasher film up until the very end. We discuss the lack of tension and “fear of stalking” in the film.

We talk about how the film is largely not exciting until the very end when it kind of switches genres to exploitation shootout, as well as the inexplicable and almost nonsensical reveal about the gender of one of the characters.

We talk about how the film is a reflection of Craven’s fear of religion and his upbringing and how they might actually be right when it comes to morality.