At the absolute apex of the slasher barrage in the early to mid 80's, a hollywood studio compilation was released, hosted and narrated by Nancy Allen (Dressed to Kill, Carrie) and Donald Pleasence (Halloween, Prince of Darkness) that brought you the best elements of horror and suspense from the current and most recent film runs, to classics going back to Hitchcock, arguably the master of suspense as it's obvious Carpenter and DePalma were striving to give the audience the jibes and apprehensions that Alfred created.
The film was released in 1984 as "Terror in the Aisles", but due to what apparently are legal rights issues from the obvious plethora of film clips being used from multiple studios, putting out a proper issue of this movie on DVD would probably be more costly than it would be worth. The Japanese have released it under the title "This is Shock". I'm sure it's available on Amazon or Ebay. Original copies of the American release on VHS I'm quite sure are easily acquireable.
But good luck, it may cost you a few bucks. More recent horror docs, such as "Going to Pieces", "American Nightmare", among others do give you the nice historical perspective, but not the class of having Pleasence and Allen, with their horror pedigrees as your hosts and guides through classic moments of shock.
It's getting near Halloween, it's that time of year, and this film is perfect. Good Luck.
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