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- Created: 03 June 2019
- Written by Michelle Duy
The trailers for Night School looked so promising. With talented comic actors like Tiffany Haddish (Girls Trip) and Kevin Hart, how could they go wrong? Rob Riggle, rapper Fat Joe and Taran Killam of Saturday Night Live fame round out a usually funny ensemble cast, but they can ...
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- Created: 14 April 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
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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- Created: 11 January 2019
- Written by Frank Wilkins
The Upside is a remake of the 2011 French film called The Intouchables which was about the real life story of a wealthy quadriplegic and the man hired to take care of him. Despite its lazy storytelling and corny sentimentality, that film went on to bring in ...
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- Created: 11 April 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
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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- Created: 01 March 2019
- Written by Frank Wilkins
There’s a delicious element of B-movie camp that snakes its way through the frames of director Neil Jordan’s new film called Greta. Jordan knows he has crafted a technically astute psychological thriller with tinges of Hitchcock and Fincher. But the moments where he ...
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- Created: 09 April 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
“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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- Created: 15 February 2019
- Written by Frank Wilkins
Beware! The Baby Mask Killer is back. If 2017’s surprise time-loop slasher Happy Death Day was rightfully called a mash-up of Groundhog Day and Scream, then its follow-up, Happy Death Day 2U can be called a strange combination of Weird Science, The Butterfly Effect ...
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- Created: 05 April 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
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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- Created: 04 January 2019
- Written by Frank Wilkins
Fortunately, the Tide Pods Challenge went untouched by Hollywood. The same can’t be said about the escape room craze however, as Sony’s latest, called Escape Room is a clever little high-concept psychological horror film that plays off the raging escape room phenomenon ...
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- Created: 05 April 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
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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- Created: 18 January 2019
- Written by Frank Wilkins
With his latest film called Glass, filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan, has actually managed to pull the rug out from under us yet again with one of his biggest and most amazing twists to date. I’m not kidding here, folks. This one is a doozy. ...
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- Created: 02 April 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
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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- Created: 22 February 2019
- Written by Frank Wilkins
Fighting With My Family is the heartwarming new comedy based on the incredible true story of one of WWE’s biggest female wrestling superstars, Paige. Wait! This isn’t a wrestling movie. And before you click away to dismiss the film as a ridiculously silly, amped-up, ...
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- Created: 01 April 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
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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- Created: 22 April 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
Face it, you didn’t go see this film when it was released. The advertisements didn’t sell it well enough, did they? Well, this box office bomb is actually pretty damn good. It might be, for a kid’s movie, too long, but The Kid Who Would Be King has a great message and an even ...
Read more: The Kid Who Would Be King (2018) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 31 March 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
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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- Created: 24 December 2018
- Written by Loron Hays
The greatest thing that ever happened to the Transformers movie franchise was Michael Bay’s departure. Fact. Let the reboot begin! Bumblebee has arrived and it, operating as a prequel (or as like to consider it: THE ONLY TRANSFORMERS LIVE-ACTION FILM), ushers in a ...
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- Created: 29 March 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Cigarettes out and zippers up! Tarantino’s main influence for Death Proof arrives on blu-ray thanks to Code Red and, yes, it features full frontal nudity from The Hoff, a seriously sexy dance number in a soda shop, and a lot of high school teens giving their all for the school. ...
Read more: Revenge of the Cheerleaders (1976) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 19 January 2019
- Written by Christopher Symonds
M. Night Shyamalan is responsible for one of the most brilliant supernatural thrillers, and one of the most impressive cinematic twists in film history: The Sixth Sense. That film established him as a wunderkind filmmaker and immediately ...
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- Created: 28 March 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Talk about 1970s television star power! Everyone - from Kinky Friedman to Ruth Buzzi - is stocking the shelves at Record City. The familiar faces keep turning up in this store! ...
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- Created: 01 April 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
In order to fully appreciate just how CRAZY Aquaman is, I suggest you being four or five beers deep. Seriously. DC needs James Wan. The proof is just how enjoyably bonkers Aquaman is, which Wan directed. Finally free from the brooding destruction of Zach Snyder’s spin on ...
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- Created: 27 March 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Tucked far enough away from civilization, the bleak desert that surrounds the ranch at the center of this independently made feature from 1955 makes for some unsettling moments. There’s nothing around the ranch except sand and mountains in the distance. Its remote location is already changing the ...
Read more: The Beast with 1,000,000 Eyes (1955) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 14 December 2018
- Written by Frank Wilkins
Long thought untouchable for theatrical adaptation due to its tenuous structure and ethereal nature, author James Baldwin’s novel If Beale Street Could Talk gets the big screen treatment from Moonlight writer/director Barry Jenkins. And what a perfect combination ...
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- Created: 23 March 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
No one screams like Jamie Lee Curtis. No one. Combine those ear-piercing screams with a creepy Groucho Marx mask, a young David Copperfield, a ghostly train ride, and you have sure fire success for a late October night full of terror and mystery. Rising above the typical ...
Read more: Terror Train: Limited Edition (1980) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 21 December 2018
- Written by Frank Wilkins
There is something very honorable in modesty and not needing to always take credit for the joy one gives to those we love. The gallantry of self-sacrifice and doing for others quite often speaks for itself and doesn’t need the “hey, look at me” arrogance so prevalent in today’s ...
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- Created: 19 March 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
It doesn’t take Night Key very long to kick into high gear. Boris Karloff, starring as an inventor of a bank alarm who gets pissed that he’s not getting the money or the credit for his invention, finds himself in over his head with a group of gangsters who want to get rich quick. With nowhere to turn to ...
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- Created: 04 February 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
Slaughterhouse. Four Eyes. Know those names. Clocking in at 86-minutes of sweat- inducing space madness, Crossbreed will straight up kick your ass. No, it isn’t another exercise craze with fancy names for pull-ups and squat thrusts. Crossbreed, directed by Brandon ...
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- Created: 16 March 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
What happens when like-minded British and Hong Kong film producers get together to make a cheapo-depot sex film? They ride the success of Alien, amp up the sex, and make one of the strangest exploitation films of the early 1980s. Inseminoid is a horror film like few others. Thanks to ...
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- Created: 11 March 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
The American Ministry of Magic just got stronger. It had to, of course. The dark magic of Gellert Grindelwald (a fantastically evil Johnny Depp) is that powerful. Opening with a flying stagecoach sequence, complete with winged horses and a sky-high jailbreak sequence ...
Read more: Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 14 March 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Giant-sized cockroaches in the Brady Bunch house?! Yes, please. What other secrets are those unclean Brady’s hiding? With Bug, a film that locks its horrors upon fire-farting cockroaches, we find out! ...
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