Unfortunately, the increased stress of Howard’s battles with the studio, his advancing Alzheimer’s, and his young contemporary brings his alter ego out to play, setting the two men on a violent collision course with the Reaper himself. McAuley’s savage but affectionate sendup of the horror film industry begins as a cross between Wes Craven’s New Nightmare and All About Eve, with old actor Howard Browning clinging to the one steady role he’s ever had as twisted, scarred slasher villain the Reaper, while Trevor, a former child star, is pushed to step into the Reaper’s bloodstained overalls for the studio’s planned reboot. Hopefully, this list of ten favorites both old and new will help you get started. Slashers have seen something of a resurgence recently, with authors and critics alike lining up to offer their own unique takes on one of the simplest but most varied and enduring genres of horror there is. It’s a fertile playground for the imagination, both in terms of kills and location, allowing the authors to have a lot more fun with a relatively simple premise. But while the slasher movie genre is tied down by a budget, script, and filming constraints (for instance, Blood Harvest, a movie where the red herring for the killings isn’t even in the same location as the rest of the cast), slasher novels have no such compunctions. It’s viscerally satisfying, like a murder mystery with less mystery and exposition, and three times as much murder. Set up the characters, set up the masked killer, wind them up, watch them go, straight line from a to b, boom.

Water testing was undertaken by the Environmental Protection Authority in the weeks after the fish kills to determine if any pollutants had a part to play.There’s something beautifully and brutally simple about the slasher genre. The ecological catastrophe triggered a multi-agency response involving NSW Police, WaterNSW, Essential Water, the Central Darling Shire and the DPI.Īt the time the NSW Labor Government, which had just come to power, vowed to launch an inquiry into the disaster - to establish how it happened, water management practices and how to prevent fish kills from occurring again.

The removal of carp is the latest step in the clean-up and recovery operation following massive fish kills at Menindee six weeks ago.įrom March 17 to 19, locals in the far-west town were left stunned and frustrated when as many as 20 million native fish died in the Darling River from a lack of oxygen. ' themselves will just consume oxygen by being in the water so the less carp that were in there … the better it would be for the natives.' Another step towards recovery 'Both through reducing competition for food and habitat. Cameron Lay from the DPI hopes the removal of carp will help native fish.

Kill river by cameron roubique