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Disfigurement! Death! Dastardly charges of electricity! So this is why the lights went out last night, by golly! This is why scientists – no matter how large or small their egos are – should NEVER experiment on themselves. ...
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Steve Martin’s The Jerk remains a comedy classic. That is made clear thanks to Shout Select’s brand-new 2K transfer of the 1979 hit film. Put this film in a time capsule already because, thanks to the vulgarity, the stupidity, and the damn sweet innocence of it all, there is ...
Read more: The Jerk: 40th Anniversary Edition (1979) - Blu-ray Review
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Because Santa Claus only comes once a year, why not go back to the well? Silent Night, Deadly Night Part Two has to be one of the most fantastically awful sequels out there. Sure, sure, sure, it’s a pile of shit, recapping the original movie for half of the film before spiraling ...
Read more: Silent Night Deadly Night Part Two: Collector's Edition (1987) - Blu-ray Review
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Death by kitchen oven! A band saw straight to the skull! Headaches caused by drills! Leave it to Joe D’Amato, Italian exploitation and porno filmmaker, to take the emerging slasher craze in America and grind the shit out of it for Italian audiences. Absurd, his faintly ...
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And you think your neighbors are weird?! With an introductory title card that is damn legendary, Don Dohler’s Fiend begins. Certain legends have mentioned the Fiend. They talk of its red phantasmagoric presence; its ability to enter the earth and bring forth the dead ...
Read more: FIEND: Limited Collector's Edition (1980) - Blu-ray Review
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Making its blu-ray debut, Snowflake (originally released as Schneeflöckchen in 2017) proves that German cinema might just be on the rebound. Taking on the subject of revenge might not sound so grand and ambitious of an idea, but what directors Adolfo Kolmerer ...
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It starts with the disappearance of Sutter Cane. A mystery unfolds in our minds as one man, locked up in an insane asylum, starts blabbering on and on about being sorry for balls and lucky shots. Poor John Trent (Sam Neill). But he goes on, claiming not to be insane ...
Read more: In the Mouth of Madness: Collector's Edition (1995) - Blu-ray Review
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Kebob skewers. They aren’t meant to be shoved straight into the throat. But that’s what happens when one poor girl is pushed to the limits and finds herself without the usual murder weapon. Happy Eating! ...
Read more: Happy Birthday to Me: Indicator Series (1981) - Blu-ray Review
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Hot peppers! An abandoned Nazi bunker…in California! Horny hog mutants! And two assassins with time on their hands! An Hour to Kill has it all! Knowing that, it is the story about a biker bowling team on the hunt for “hogs” to pork ...
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If there is a great spiritual awakening in this country, it will be led by the one-two punch that is Mandy ...
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Hells Bells, Liddell!!! Seriously, just promise me that if you are ever working around heavy machinery and you happen to drop some pills on a MOVING conveyer belt that you will just let the damn machine grind that shit up. Because, in The Mangler, one worker does ...
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When it comes to concert films, there are few things better than the teaming of Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia) and David Byrne. Stop Making Sense, the title coming from a lyric inside the Talking Heads’ song “Girlfriend is Better”, is a concert ...
Read more: Stop Making Sense: 25th Anniversary Edition (1984) - Blu-ray Review
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"You're not from around here, are you?" For many of us, it is the scene when the alien arrives on earth as a baby that freaked us out the most. It was for me. Sure, the explosion in the woods as the alien vehicle “lands” was pretty freaking cool but, truly, that scene where ...
Read more: John Carpenter's Starman: Collector's Edition (1984) - Blu-ray Review
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The steady beat. The blistering horns. That powerful theme of James Bernard’s pierces the walls of this cemetery; it is majestic even. It sounds like a procession as the camera marches us toward the tomb of Dracula. And then, because we’d not have it any other way ...
Read more: Horror of Dracula: Warner Archive Collection (1958) - Blu-ray Review
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Directed by Terence Fisher, Dracula, Prince of Darkness is Hammer Films' first sequel to 1958's Horror of Dracula to feature the return of Christopher Lee as the Count (who was absent from 1960's Brides of Dracula). It also marks a sort of crossroads ...
Read more: Dracula, Prince of Darkness: Collector's Edition (1965) - Blu-ray Review
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- Candyman: Collector's Edition (1992) - Blu-ray Review
- Blastfighter (1984) - Blu-ray Review
- True Stories: Criterion Collection (1986) - Blu-ray Review
- The Critters Collection: Critters (1986), Critters 2: The Main Course (1988), Critters 3 (1991), Critters 4 (1992) - Blu-ray Review
- The Phantom Empire: 30th Anniversary Edition (1988) - Blu-ray Review
- Lucio Fulci's Zombie: 3-Disc Limited Edition (1979) - Blu-ray Review
- Wheels of Fire: Roger Corman’s Post Nuke Collection (1985) - Blu-ray Review
- Force: Five (1981) - Blu-ray Review
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Special Edition (1981) - Blu-ray Review
- The Swinging Barmaids (1975) - Blu-ray Review
- Doctor Who: Peter Davison – Complete Season One (1982) - Blu-ray Review
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- Joaquin Phoenix 911 Call - River Phoenix - Viper Room
- Screen Legend Elizabeth Taylor Dies at 79
- Suicide and the Hollywood Sign - The Girl Who Jumped from the Hollywood Sign
- The Amityville Horror House
- The Black Dahlia Murder - The Death of Elizabeth Short
- The Death of Actress Jane Russell
- The Death of Brandon Lee
- The Death of Chris Farley
- The Death of Dominique Dunne
- The Death of George Reeves - the Original Superman