Cavan Scott and Paul Fry will pay tribute to their horror movie-filled childhoods in Night of the Slashers, a miniseries coming from Magma Comix this fall.
The comic is a “love letter” to slasher movies, particular the kind you could rent from a video store and watch on videotape back in the day.
“As you can probably tell from the title, Night of the Slashers is a love letter to slasher movies, an obsession that began when I saw my first serial killer (Halloween 2 on a dodgy VHS at my friend’s 12th birthday party) and has now been passed onto my daughter,” Scott said. “It was only a matter of time before I came up with my own walking nightmare in the mold of Michael, Jason or Jason, but when I met artist Paul Fry and immediately bonded over horror movies, it soon became clear that one wasn’t enough. If we were going to write a slasher, we wanted an entire town of masked knife-wielding killers. This series has everything we love in slasher movies! Victims, you can’t wait to see sliced ‘n’ diced, larger-than-life monsters, gallons of blood and gruesome deaths galore. No one is safe in The Night of the Slashers. No one at all.”
Here’s how Magma describes the series:
Hill Creek is a lovely place to visit… except the one night of the year its citizens transform into bloodthirsty maniacs! Of course, that’s the very night Lara’s bus breaks down, stranding the disillusioned teen and her classmates in the secluded town. Secrets uncovered, terror at every turn—will anyone survive the night?
“My Dad owned a video shop when I was young. Way before the likes of Blockbuster Video. We were lucky enough to have a VHS and Betamax player, which ended up in my room,” Fry said. “I grew up watching more movies than you can imagine. I gravitated to all the superhero cartoons, sci-fi and of course horror films. Growing up when the original Star Wars trilogy, Alien and Superman movies initially came out didn’t hurt either, and there was also the original A Nightmare on Elm Street. There’s nothing more horrifying than being chased by a monster that can rip you to shreds. Exactly my cup of tea—After speaking to Cavan about our love of slasher movies, and hearing a premise he had in mind, I was immediately intrigued and knew this needed to be done. Up steps Magma Comix who also loved the idea and the creation of The Night of the Slashers was soon fleshed out from the corpses of teenage victims. I couldn’t be happier.”
Here’s a look at some of Fry’s interior artwork from the first issue:
And Robert Hack draws a VHS-themed variant cover:
The first issue arrives in stores Oct. 2.