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It's the sequel no one wanted. Go in knowing this. The opening few minutes of Brahms: The Boy II are this film’s best. Shocking and thrilling, an unsuspected home invasion rocks the idyllic world of Liza (Katie Holmes, Dawson’s Creek) and her son Jude (Christopher Convery, The Girl in the Spider’s Web). It’s a ...
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Because you never know when you are going to need stick matches! While the earthquake that opens John Carpenter’s Escape from L.A. and separates the county from the rest of California might be the stuff of fiction, it is NO stretch of the truth to admit that this post-apocalyptic sequel was ...
Read more: Escape from L.A.: Collector's Edition (1996) - Blu-ray Review
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Put down that burrito, my friend, Satan is back on earth! That’s right, Dolly Dearest has returned to finish the job it started back when it was originally released in 1991! ...
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Oh, boy. If the alternate title shown in the opening credits isn't a sign of a really bad movie, then I don't know what it is. Where do I even begin with this schlocky D-grade rip on extraterrestrial sex? If you are anything like me, you are aware of this movie for two reasons: Samantha Janus ...
Read more: Breeders (Deadly Instincts) (1997) - Blu-ray Review
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When the “zombies” start slipping vines over the heads of the island visitors and choking them to death, I’d say the vacation on this tropical island is over. Mexico would have been so much nicer indeed! ...
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Lonely Are The Brave, starring Kirk Douglas, has a very poetic opening as a lone cowboy, sitting around a campfire, talks to his horse and then pushes his cowboy hat back on his head . . . to watch a passenger jet fly over his head. Forget about open country, Charlie, this is a movie where fences and ...
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Gutterballs is Canuxploitation at its filthiest. And I mean that in a good way. I mean, not many horror films can advertise death by a maniac with a bowling bag for a mask as he smothers teengagers performing 69 on each other with their own private parts. Choke on this! But this film can and ...
Read more: Gutterballs: Two Disc Limited Unearthed Films Edition (2008) - Blu-ray Review
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“So . . . you ran and hid in my bush?” Well, yeah. I mean, what would you do if your best friends become zombies thanks to what you did?! Don’t let the typical 1990s introduction fool you. Idle Hands, directed by Rodman Flander (The Unborn, ...
Read more: Idle Hands: Collector's Edition (1999) - Blu-ray Review
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I’m just going to cut to the chase with this review. Bloodshot is NOT a bad movie. It might look familiar to comic book enthusiasts, but it is cool enough in its cinematic glide to deliver plenty of steely-eyed action scenes and incredible visuals thanks to first-time director David S.F. Wilson’s background in ...
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The first horror icon of cinema has returned! Or is The Golem, thanks to its design and its use of white magic, the first cinematic superhero? I guess it comes down to your interpretation of the events in this legendary silent film. But there is NO arguing of its influence. From The Incredible Hulk ...
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The power of Jessica (Juliet Mills) compels yyyyoooooouuuu!!! Get those eyes ready for those stylized freeze frames because Jessica is eating banana skins off the sidewalk again, but this time it is in 2K! That’s right, the pea ...
Read more: Beyond the Door: Limited Edition 2K Uncut English Export Version (1974) - Blu-ray Review
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"And you thought YOU were hot?!" Getting faced by pots of boiling water never looked so good! The Wind has arrived on blu-ray thanks to a NEW 4K transfer from the original 35mm print ...
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They are here. They have always been here. The McPherson Tape (also known as UFO ABDUCTION) is proof. It doesn’t take long for the skies to ignite over the night sky of Northwoods, Connecticut. The McPherson family ...
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“Think about the stations of the cross! Think about the stations of the cross!” With a tip of the hat to the splatterific offerings of Herschell Gordon Lewis and Freaks director Tod Browning, Multiple Maniacs takes aim at the Manson Family and at Catholicism as the tents of ...
Read more: Muliple Maniacs: Criterion Collection (1970) - Blu-ray Review
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"What happened to us? How did we all get here...?" With those questions, Captain Lansen (Eric Porter) watches as a coffin is slid into the orange-tinted sea. Standing next to the captain of the Corita, a tramp steamer, are priests, pirates, conquistadors, and his crew and, as the camera ...
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The Beachwood and Franklin community in Hollywood will never be the same once Mom moves in! Over-the-top and mad as hell, Mom is a late-night gem that hounds of horror will definitely dig. ...
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Psychological thrillers don't get any more disturbing than what goes down in the four walls of The Mafu Cage! Ellen (Lee Grant) just can’t escape her sister, Cissy, but, boy, would she love to be rid of her. It might just take a tribal ceremony to get it done, too! ...
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It’s the fuzz tones, man. It’s all about the fuzz! What would you do if a producer came up to you and your cousin and said he’d give you $100,000 to make a movie, but it had to be a biker flick and it had to be R-rated? You’d make that damn movie, of course. Thus ...
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“Look, You got a limp and I got tits; these aren't great things to have in the military. So, why don't we pair up and get through the course as best as we can?” ...
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Musical? Who needs a musical? We only need the music and a floor to dance upon! The 1960s are alive and well in the capable hands of John Waters. Hairspray hasn’t aged a day since its initial release in 1988 and that ...
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Vampires! Swordfights! Making whoopee with Caroline Munro in a stable! It’s all here in Hammer’s classic Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter, easily my favorite Hammer film ...
Read more: Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974) - Blu-ray Review
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“I’ve never bagged a babe.” With those words and damn near perfect timing, Anthony Michael Hall created one of the most memorable teenage characters in film history. Sixteen Candles might be Molly Ringwald’s first movie (for that matter, it was also John Hughes’ first film as writer and ...
Read more: Sixteen Candles: Arrow Video 4K Restoration (1984) - Blu-ray Review
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Turns out that the fucking hills, blistering hot in the sinking desert of the southwest, STILL have eyes. They just don’t have Michael Berryman wandering across them anymore, but - like most genre flicks made in the 1990s - they do have rampaging genetic experiments stomping ...
Read more: The Hills Have Eyes Part III: Mind Ripper (1995) - Blu-ray Review
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Same shit. Same soldiers. Different kind of war. Splatterhouse horror flicks don’t get any throwback worthier than with VFW! The gloves are coming off in this instant cult classic ...
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“Is Los Angeles specific enough?” There’s no stopping Jimmy Woods (Luke Evans). The kid, carrying his yellow lunch box, is on a mission. He’s going to California on foot and as the Bodeans’ “You Don’t Get Much” is played, we see him standing tall against an intense sun. Whatever his reason to be ...
Read more: The Wizard: Collector's Edition (1989) - Blu-ray Review
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Munster, Go Home! is finally available! There’s something strange in the neighborhood and it’s NOT taking place at 1313 Mockingbird Lane this time. In fact, it’s happening far, far away from the macabre weirdness that is usually happening within the Mockingbird ...
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Schlocky science fiction gets gutted in writer/director Fred Olen Ray’s Deep Space! Now on blu-ray thanks to Scorpion Releasing, this campy cult classic sees Charles Napier, the steely-eyed character actor who formed a career out of playing pissed-off military figures, as a Los Angeles ...
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Because the gangster of love don’t need no fried chicken! Starring Snoop Dogg and Pam Grier, director Ernest Dickerson’s Bones is an incredibly tight updated take on blaxploitation flicks by way of horror. The mashing of genres works to create a film that has gone on to earn a sizable cult following ...
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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 ...
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Because who doesn’t like a practical joke?! “On a clear day you can see the Kennedys.” That line of dialogue is one of the many clever lines in this cult classic from 1986. April Fool’s Day, directed by Fred Walton and written by Danilo Bach, is an undeniable masterpiece of mood and mayhem ...
Read more: April Fool's Day: Collector's Edition (1986) - Blu-ray Review
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- The Black Dahlia Murder - The Death of Elizabeth Short
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