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“Come into my head. Come into my head. COME INTO MY HEAD,” is the hypnotizing command from the crispy mouth of Lanyard Gates, who killed his family and set fire to his own theater. It is a beckoning for aspiring film writer Maggie Butler (Jill Schoelen) and a challenge ...
Read more: Popcorn: Collector's Steelbook Edition (1991) - Blu-ray Review
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Get that jar of Johnson’s Afro Sheen ready, brothers and sisters! The blowout kit will be needed in order to survive this freakishly tall tale of laser beam fusion and wonky genetic theories. Blackenstein, courtesy of Severin Film, is back on the creep (oh ah, oh ah, ...
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Believe it or not, the very first time actors Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, and Peter Cushing were in the same film together was in 1970 with Scream and Scream Again. While only two of the three horror icons share screen time together, their appearance in this weird title ...
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“Honey, look! I made a killing,” exclaims Beverly Sutphin as she marches hurriedly back to her daughter’s booth with a black fire poker in her hand. She’s as clueless as she is psychotic and the hilariously long line of cop cars that follows her on the way to church is proof enough ...
Read more: Serial Mom: Collector's Edition (1994) - Blu-ray Review
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Do I dare say it? Do I dare suggest such blasphemy? I do. In my opinion, we’ve just witnessed the next evolution of horror with the release of The Void. It is a film that matches, frame for frame, the otherworldly bizarreness and esoteric terror of Clive Barker’s Hellraiser ...
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Director John Brahm knows how to create mood. I praised his efforts in my reviews for The Lodger and The Undying Monster, but with Vincent Price in 1954’s The Mad Magician, he adds a new dimension to terror. By mixing the 3D technology of the time period with shockingly ...
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If you’ve read my article Five Beers: In Defense of the Trashier Side of Cinema, then you probably realize a documentary about the rise and fall of physical media is going to be close to my heart. This is the territory of VHS Massacre: Cult Films and the Decline ...
Read more: VHS Massacre: Cult Films and the Decline of Physical Media (2016) - Blu-ray Review
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I’m just going to go ahead and say (and spray) it everywhere. Exploitation filmmaker Frank Henenlotter is one of the few remaining mad geniuses of the cinema; he’s a walking masterpiece of the b-movie. Horror Hounds and Gore-Gore girls, this is what happens when ...
Read more: Brain Damage: Limited Edition (1988) - Blu-ray Review
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Looking for a quick study of the attitude and overall swagger of the 1980s? Few things are as tonally expressive AND summative as the opening few minutes of this flick when it comes to the 1980s heyday. Look no further ...
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I bet you probably didn’t know that Darth Vader made an appearance in another film shortly after the release of Return of the Jedi. I also bet you didn’t know that a fat kid’s biggest fear is to be eaten by a double cheeseburger. It’s all true. Making Contact, an Amblin ...
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While Bela Lugosi’s residency making poverty row pictures was relatively short-lived, there were a handful of solid horror titles he made that originally went ignored. The Corpse Vanishes, doubling down on the genuine weirdness of an aging couple obsessed with ...
Read more: The Corpse Vanishes/Bowery At Midnight (1942) - Blu-ray Review
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It’s time to go back; back to the 1980’s. It was a time when the videocassette ruled everything. The sticker advising us to “Be Kind, Rewind” was stuck to every case. Sometimes, we did and other times, well, we were kind of in a hurry to get the damn thing back to the video ...
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Nail guns and cyborgs are always a deadly combination. Ouch. Toward the end of the 1990s, there were a slew of disaster pictures concerning everything from the end of the freakin’ world to computers losing their shit. It seemed that everyone wanted to weigh in on Y2K. Off-screen ...
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It was the first movie I ever saw in 3-D. Friggin’ SpaceVision as I recall. For that reason and others (involving the sheer joy of the flick), I freakin’ love director Lamont Johnson’s Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone. LOVE IT. To me, it is Canuxploitation ...
Read more: Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983) - Blu-ray Review
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Burn, baby, burn! Cannon Films, man. What a run they had. From American Ninja to Delta Force and beyond, for many a teenager growing up in the 1970s and the 1980s, they were the source for high-flying action. I mean, who doesn’t love Stallone taking names and ...
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"I love this game, Moonpie. I love it." A dark arena fills the picture. Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor fills our ears as two teams enter the rink. The teams are Houston and Madrid and the game they are about to play is called Rollerball, a violent sport centered ...
Read more: Rollerball: Encore Edition (1975) - Blu-ray Review
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To this day, there remains something insanely special about director Brian De Palma’s Carrie. It is based on the once-discarded novel by Stephen King, but was painstakingly adapted for the screen by Lawrence D. Cohen. Cohen got everything about King’s first novel right ...
Read more: The Hound of the Baskervilles: The Limited Edition Series (1959) - Blu-ray Review
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A Tree of Terror! Americans in peril! Radioactive typhoons! Jungle Witchcraft! From Hell It Came promises and delivers a total atomic age … bomb. No wonder then that this film was the last monster picture to be created by the Milner Bros. There’s no coming back from ...
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For the longest time, the Halloween franchise has been “the toppermost of the poppermost” for me. Nothing was more frightening than the bogeyman that Michael Myers was made to be. Well, that was then and people, as they are wont to do, can change their minds ...
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If the symbolism in this independent horror film doesn’t stitch the fear of the Goddess right onto your supple flesh then there’s little hope for the everlasting soul that your skin shields. Dark Waters is intense. The art-house horror in this Nunsploitation masterpiece about ...
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“The genitals are the door to evil! The vagina, the uterus, the womb; the labyrinth that leads to hell; the devil’s tools!” Father, please forgive me. I have sinned and actually enjoyed a nunploitation flick last night. I know I am not supposed to (just like I know I’m not ...
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In which the real monsters are revealed to be us, brothers and sisters. Welcome to Hell, motherfuckers! My friends and I often have conversations about the horror movies released during the 1990s and what is so painfully wrong with most of them. And then we get to ...
Read more: Tales from the Hood: Collector's Edition (1995) - Blu-ray Review
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“Sometimes I dare death to try to catch me. Grab me. Ya know what I mean,” confesses a stuntman named B.J. (James Stacy). B.J., who lost his arm and leg on the left side of his body (along with his wife) after an unfortunate car crash, is just one of the many interesting ...
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Being the obstinate fool that I am, I have had many run-ins with local law enforcers. I just can’t help myself. Most of them – mustached or not – have been surprisingly accommodating, using zip ties instead of handcuffs and so on. Of course, there’s always that asshole ...
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About twenty minutes into The Mephisto Waltz all hell breaks loose when a costume party literally goes to the dogs. With a human mask securely fastened to its head, a black dog strolls into the room. Don’t adjust the picture. Yes, even the canines are into the devil’s work ...
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Remember that time when famed Italian director Mario Bava co-directed a wacky tale of science fiction terror about a Mayan blob that tormented some researchers in Mexico? What’s that? You don’t remember Caltiki, the Immortal Monster or the pool of gold- ...
Read more: Caltiki, the Immortal Monster (1959) - Blu-ray Review
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This film might kill you. Honestly, truer words have seldom been spoken. The banging window. The knocking on the door. Don’t investigate it, Jenni (Peggy Webber), just leave it alone. Webber could be your plainspoken Auntie, folks, and you definitely don’t want anything ...
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Vampire bat blood in pill form. Taken three times a day, it guarantees a high that will leave you long in the tooth. Picture it. A domestic scene. A doctor, a little freaked by what he may or not have taken, confronts his young daughter. "What the hell are these," ...
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The films in the collection might be at random and, as a result, it might be incomplete but Shout Factory’s release of The Vincent Price Collection is truly something any fan of classic horror can celebrate with cake, decorations, and nonstop parties this Halloween season ...
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Writer, director, producer Roger Corman, the celebrated King of the B-movie, has very rarely let me down as a member of his audience. I found his book, How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime, to be a sort of oracle guiding me across the California ...
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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