Aaron Martin

‘Slasher’ team gets back to gory basics with ‘Hell Motel’

The “Slasher” troupe delivered the most consistently gory TV horror from 2016-23, sometimes also adding in good mysteries, and stumbling only with Season 5, “Ripper.”

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‘Slasher’ Season 5 ‘Ripper’ overly ambitious, but still brutal

For better or worse, “Slasher” gets ambitious by trying its first period-piece mystery, venturing to 1890s Toronto. Through two episodes, it’s slightly “for worse,” but

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‘Slasher’ returns with gore-ific Season 4 premiere

While watching Season 4, episode one of “Slasher,” a friend messaged me a sneak preview of what I’d see when I got to it later

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‘Slasher’ Season 3 cracks code on slasher TV narrative

As “Harper’s Island,” “Dead of Summer,” “Scream” and other slasher TV series have found, this medium can’t escape the law of diminishing returns the way

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‘Slasher’ Season 2 (2017) finds winter chills

Frustrated with “Scream” Season 3 being delayed indefinitely, I was excited to stumble across “Slasher” Season 2 (2017) on Netflix. Chiller’s Season 1 was strong,

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‘The Best Years’ Season 1 review

“The Best Years” Season 1 (2007, The-N), episodes 1-10 – The summer’s most impressive new series, “The Best Years,” is enough to cure any doldrums.

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Martin puts mark on horror genre with ‘Slasher’ Season 1

“Dead of Summer” and the second season of “Scream” are big reasons why 2016 has become the year of the slasher TV series, but the

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First episode (of new season) impressions: ‘Being Erica’ (TV review)

Here are my first impressions of Season 3 of “Being Erica,” which airs at 10 p.m. Central Wednesdays on SOAPnet. (more…)

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