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Make no mistake about it. Jack Frost 2: Revenge Of The Mutant Killer Snowman is not a great movie. It might not even be that necessary considering the first one was all bark and little bite, but as we are talking about a psychotic (and in this one, resurrected) snowman who kills for jollies, I guess ...
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The new comedy starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson called The Hustle is an almost identical remake of the 1988 classic comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels which starred Michael Caine and Steve Martin - itself a remake of Marlon Brando’s Bedtime Story. I say “almost” because ...
Read more: Jack Frost: Collector’s Edition - MVD Rewind Collection (1997) - Blu-ray Review
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“The worm is the spice! The spice is the worm!” David Lynch’s Dune might not be the director’s favorite movie-making experience. It also might not be on any science fiction fan’s top 10 list (although it probably should be). Those sentences alone do not make Lynch’s attempt at bringing ...
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The man with the straw hat is back! And so are his ghoulish finds in the windy city of Chicago. Watergate era television doesn’t get much better than with Kolchak: The Night Stalker. And that, my friends, is a certified fact. It begins in a dingy motel room. A cassette player is on. A disheveled ...
Read more: Kolchak: The Night Stalker - The Complete Series (1974 - 1975) - Blu-ray Review
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“Can you still do the things with your eyes? You’re not crazy if you can still do the thing with your eyes.” I will NEVER forget the first time I saw Philip Kaufman’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I wouldn’t go outside in the rain for weeks afterwards thanks to the opening few minutes of ...
Read more: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) - 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Review
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Folk Horror. The very combination of the words suggest a clash of ideologies and, true to its nature, this seems to be its roots. It is a concept of evil so entwined with the land that it is damn near impossible to ever tear its threads clean. The voices in the woods; the pagan ceremonies on the ...
Read more: All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror - Box Set Blu-ray Review
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Opening with a classic song from a bygone era is a bold move for this supernatural coming-of-age story about a bullied teen who takes matters into his own hands. Especially when that familiar chorus - as The Platters’ own Tony Williams soars vocally - kicks in and the audience witnesses ...
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And just like that . . . a future cult classic has arrived! Based on a Ubisoft game and featuring a wonderful cast and of solidly realized characters, Werewolves Within is the whodunnit horror/comedy of the year. Fresh as the falling snow that has cut off the small town at the center of this ...
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Your savior has arrived! There’s something wrong with Maud (Morfydd Clark, Crawl). This is important to identify correctly as we are with the poor girl for the entire movie. In fact, we never leave her side no matter what happens or what dark forces take over her body as they communicate ...
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Leave this house now! Peggy (Sian Barbara Allen, Billy Two Hats) never should have taken the housekeeping job at the Elliot Estate. She knows this now that its deadly mysteries have been unearthed. Of course, it might be too late for her, but it is not too late for us. You’ve been ...
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In 1992, the first feature film made by a Scottish woman was released. That was Margaret Tait with Blue Black Permanent. Seven years later, Lynne Ramsay became the second with her own feature debut, Ratcatcher. And what a debut film it is! ...
Read more: Ratcatcher: Criterion Collection (1999) - Movie Review
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Greetings from Valkenvania! Written and directed by Ghostbusters’ Dan Akroyd, Nothing But Trouble has achieved almost legendary status as Akroyd’s OTHER horror/comedy. You know, the one that was the box office BOMB, blasting itself into oblivion with its troll-like Valkenheiser ...
Read more: Nothing But Trouble: Shout Select (1991) - Blu-ray Review
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It’s a party to die for! Demonic spirit or not, Killer Party proves why wild costume parties inside abandoned fraternity houses are a really bad idea. There’s just a lot to unpack by way of young adults and their raging hormones before the twisted spirits ...
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This is a movie about the girl next door . . . turned into a robot in a life-saving operation by the teenage genius who lives on her block. Still with me? You should be as Deadly Friend, directed by Wes Craven, is a forgotten gem of 80’s horror schlock as it successfully combines horror elements with ...
Read more: Deadly Friend: Collector’s Edition (1986) - Blu-ray Review
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Beware the yellow van! Opening with some great aerial shots of San Francisco, Jeremy Hoenack's Killer’s Delight (originally shot as The Sport Killer and later re-released as The Dark Ride) shocks its audience when a van that we’ve been following pulls to the side of the road and a nude, dead ...
Read more: Killer’s Delight (1978) Vinegar Syndrome Exclusive - Blu-Ray Review
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Black magic! Like in Marilyn's books! This demon wants a lifeless body to control! Through the Fire begins with a flat tire. We have a glorious wide shot in which a white car comes to a stop against a night full of stars. That single shot is pretty awe-inspiring. Unfortunately, the rest of the movie is ...
Read more: Through the Fire (1988) Vinegar Syndrome Exclusive - Blu-Ray Review
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“Kiss me, Tyler!” Alright, alright, so Girls School Screamers might be on the rather cheap end of Z-grade budget horror, but from the very beginning (in which a ghost in a wedding with worms and maggots dangling from her face scares a little boy so badly he runs from the house), to its ...
Read more: Girls School Screamers (1986) Vinegar Syndrome Exclusive - Blu-Ray Review
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Once Upon a Time there lived a young woman named Wanda (Kathy Ireland. You know the name. Look up the number!) and she really wanted to change in order to please her surfer boyfriend. She can change! She wants to change! ...
Read more: Alien from LA (1988) Vinegar Syndrome Exclusive - Blu-Ray Review
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It’s time once again to hop in the WAY BACK MACHINE and go . . . way back to another age of Hollywood HIGHS and HORROR! Pre-Code Hollywood fascinates me. There are a lot of grand and wonderful films reflecting the true culture of the time period from 1930 – 1934. Man, it must ...
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A cure for a virus has some serious consequences, especially when Dead Space is involved! It’s big and its bad attitude gives it the upper hand in this . . . remake of a rip-off?! Yup. There is an interesting cut which happens early in Fred Gallo’s Dead Space, a remake of Roger Corman’s ...
Read more: Dead Space: Limited Edition - Shout! Factory Exclusive (1991)
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There is an easy but irreverent joke in the title of Elvira’s Haunted Hills. Figure it out and actually laugh out loud and you will easily enjoy this throwback trope-utilizing flick. Oh, it’s corny lowbrow horror escapism, complete with secret passageways and family curses, but fans of Elvira aren’t ...
Read more: Elvira’s Haunted Hills: Collector’s Edition (2001) - Blu-ray Review
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“Stop filling your head with all that useless trivia!” Fade to Black lives on the fringes of cinema fanaticism. This slasher celebrates the gray areas in life, where fantasy and reality come crashing together, as one young cinephile takes matters into his own hands and takes down all ...
Read more: Fade to Black (1980) Vinegar Syndrome Exclusive - Blu-Ray Review
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Children shouldn’t play with spears. End of story. There’s something EVIL bubbling just under the soil on this cursed farmland in Texas. What it is though isn’t exactly too thrilled that this family has arrived. Just witness the burning of the wooden oil pump as a young boy ...
Read more: The Cellar (1988) Vinegar Syndrome Exclusive - Blu-ray Review
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Death by trouser snake! With a ripe sense of eeriness kicking about its engines, The Lamp (aka The Outing) begins deep in the past as a daughter watches her mother hopelessly die at the hands of a murderous Jinn. We are in Galveston, Texas circa 1893 to be precise ...
Read more: The Lamp (1987) Vinegar Syndrome Exclusive - Blu-Ray Review
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“That’s the one thing I’ve learned about clients. Dead ones don’t pay their bills.” Famed scientist and cheesemaker John Hay Forrest has died driving off of a cliff. It seems to be suicide, but the daughter of the noted man, Juliet Forrest (Rachael Ward) suspects something else: murder ...
Read more: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid: Special Edition (1982) - Blu-ray Review
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Ending up in a ditch with a flat tire and no spare is just the beginning of Sue Ellen, Patty, Cindy and Rose’s problems in the regional thriller Shallow Grave ...
Read more: Shallow Grave (1987) Vinegar Syndrome Exclusive - Blu-ray Review
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You can slice 'em and dice 'em any which way you want to, but they simply don't make movies like this anymore! No budget? No problem, when done correctly! Just ask Deke Slater, the man thought responsible for the killings at Tall Grass Country Club ...
Read more: Blades (1989) Vinegar Syndrome Exclusive - Blu-Ray Review
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“I’m the master of the ghost ship!” Come for the zombie in the Nazi uniform killing random people and stay for the nonstop hilarity as director Bernard Launois gives audiences a wild tasting slice of French horror pie in Devil Story, his first and last horror film. This is a Z-grade movie where ...
Read more: Devil Story (1986) Vinegar Syndrome Exclusive - Blu-ray Review
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The umbrellas. The Flowers. And Mother’s collapse. Every year, it is the same thing. Welcome to the cruel and keyed-in paranoia of Dementia 13. If the headaches brought about by this dysfunctional family don’t get you, the axe murderer just might ...
Read more: Dementia 13 - Director’s Cut: Vestron Video Collector’s Series (1963)
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“Alright, they’re crazy! Isn’t everybody?” We are all crazy. Every one of us are absolutely insane and little separates us from those poor individuals committed due to their uncontrolled impulses. Working with this idea, Alone in the Dark condemns all of society, showing just how ...
Read more: Alone in the Dark: Collector's Edition (1982) - Blu-ray Review
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- 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