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This is homegrown horror, my friends.  As loopy as it is, The House of the Dead (originally released as Alien Zone) can’t be knocked for being inauthentic.  This Amicus-like horror anthology –  connected by one main storyline as one man, having an affair, gets dropped off ...

Read more: The House of the Dead (1978) - Blu-ray Review

Here comes yet another John Carpenter film on blu-ray! Chevy Chase in a John Carpenter movie?  Yes, indeed.  Memoirs of an Invisible Man, while not a commercial success, remains a favorite among Carpenter’s fans.  It also one of Chase’s top ...

Read more: Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992) - Blu-ray Review

Supergirl is not a great movie.  But something AWESOME happens when you watch it repeatedly.  The damn thing clicks.  This is what happened to me while moving into my new house and it was the only blu-ray on my person.  There is a magic spell that is unleashed ...

Read more: Supergirl (1984) - Blu-ray Review

The phone rings.  You answer.  “I like you better without the robe.  Take it off.”  Oh, snap.  Someone is looking right at you.  Shit.  This is the territory of one of John Carpenter's most disturbing and psychologically bent horror movies.  The things that go on in our ...

Read more: Someone's Watching Me (1978) - Blu-ray Review

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

Proving there is still some mojo left in the bottle for the Re-Animator series (or maybe it was just a desire to get the gang back together), director Brian Yuzna and star Jeffrey Combs as Dr. Herbert West return, some 13 years later, to the series that put schlock back on ...

Read more: Beyond Re-Animator: Veston Video Collector's Series (2003)

Because dreamers can also be healers. Otherworldy.  That is one word that best describes the stark black-and-white opening of The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey.  In it, we are thrust into a world that is both disturbing and deadly ...

Read more: The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (1988) - Blu-ray Review

In what has to be one of the most startling introductions ever put to film, Village of the Damned begins with a series of shots in which it appears all the adults in Midwich have collapsed.  There are groceries scattered throughout the streets.  Common items discarded and ...

Read more: Village of the Damned (1960) - Blu-ray Review

James Cameron's first movie as a director isn’t very good.  Even by B-movie standards Piranha II: The Spawning leaves much to be desired.  The film, being a sequel to Roger Corman and Joe Dante’s successful flick, should have been wilder, funnier, and a bit more on point in ...

Read more: Piranha II: The Spawning (1981) - Blu-ray Review

Poor Barbara.  Barbara.  Barbara.  Barbara.  They truly are coming to get you, Barbara.  In what might go down as one of the most gruesome (and serious) horror deaths of the early 2000s, this poor woman is strung up nude and slashed repeatedly as she is lowered ...

Read more: Dagon: Vestron Video Collector's Series (2001) - Blu-ray Review

To the sea! To the sea!  It is what Tom Burlinson commands as windsurfer Stewart “PC” Simpson in director Vincent Monton’s romantic comedy, Windrider.  This Australian film is as fun as the buggy Simpson drives to work.  I don’t know what it is about Australia’s ...

Read more: Windrider: MVD Rewind Collection (1986) - Blu-ray Review

Always a smoke.  Never a light.  Except this time is different: Enter the Devil is a diamond in the rough of cheap and greasy drive-in flicks.  It is to be experienced and marveled at as a stunning example of effective and shocking regional thrillers.  And it still works ...

Read more: Enter the Devil (1972) - Blu-ray Review

So many movies have been made about inspiring teachers, you wonder what’s left to say about them. But the indie drama Miss Stevens tells a fresh new story about a very human, flawed English teacher named Rachel (Lily Rabe from American Horror Story) who connects  ...

Read more: Miss Stevens - DVD Review

“What have you done to Judy?!” It begins with a godawful cover of “House of the Rising Sun” and it ends with the world’s longest (and highly preventable) head-on collision as Judy LaRue (Penthouse's own Patty Mullen) and her fiancee are ...

Read more: Doom Asylum (1987) - Blu-ray Review

Big hair. Shoulder pads. Casual sex. And Andrew Dice Clay. Anyone else miss the 1980s? I mean, who’d have thought the words “safe” and “sex” would ever appear in the same sentence? ...

Read more: Casual Sex? (1988) - Blu-ray Review

Foundations need to be shaken. Whatever happened to man’s best friend?  Isle of Dogs, written and directed by Wes Anderson, has the answer and it comes into focus via stop-motion.  This is Anderson’s second stop-motion feature but it might ...

Read more: Isle of Dogs (2018) - Blu-ray Review

This movie is proof that downed US F-111 bombers and curious little boys do not mix. Make no mistake about it, the MVD Rewind Collection absolutely saves this film from its VHS dustbin obscurity.  The cover art – featuring a “Be Kind Rewind” sticker on the front – is all sorts ...

Read more: Black Eagle: MVD Rewind Collection (1988) - Blu-ray Review

You can’t touch this!  Funny, charming, and definitely loaded with better moves than you’ve ever seen before, Breakin’ and its immediate sequel, Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo, find their way onto a sparkling and crisp 2fer blu-ray release from Shout Factory.  Because dance fighting ...

Read more: Breakin'/Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984) - Blu-ray Review

“Cop a chill.  We are outta here!” Fire Birds, originally released in 1990, is the movie in which Tommy Lee Jones perfects being Tommy Lee Jones, the persona, and trains a motley crew of pilots in America’s war against drugs.  Fire Birds is also the movie where Nicolas Cage as  ...

Read more: Fire Birds (1990) - Blu-ray Review

This is a movie about a mutant 8-foot-tall sheep.  Let that image take root.  It is both disturbing, overstuffed, and hilarious.  For that reason alone, Godmonster of Indian Flants is a must-see B-movie designed especially for the cinematic freaks out there. The ground trembles   ...

Read more: Godmonster of Indian Flats (1973) - Blu-ray Review

Beat Street Breakdown, RUUUUUAHHHH!!!  Like it or leave it, Beat Street is back.  This is the film which for many, including the entire country of Germany, brought breakdancing out of the shadows, off the cardboard, and into everyone’s life ...

Read more: Beat Street (1984) - Blu-ray Review

Aaaaannnnnnd this is why boys should not fall in love with demon brides.  Human sacrifices.  Summoning ancient Gods.  And hookers giving birth to mutant monsters.  If demented killings with dildos and fan blades is your cup of homebrewed tea, then Call Girl of Cthulhu is  ...

Read more: Call Girl of Cthulhu (2014) - Blu-ray Review

Bigfoot Country is certainly very scenic and so full of wildlife that it certainly becomes a spectacle.  But, much life “squatching” itself, it can be a little … too quiet.  The lead-off movie in this grindhouse drive-in combo seems to be suffering from the “you had to be there” syndrome. ...

Read more: Sasquatch/Encounter with the Unknown (1977, 1972) - Blu-ray Review

Everybody out of the water!  The coast guard has just pulled another limbless (and lifeless) corpse out of the ocean.  What the hell is happening to all these fishermen with expensive ass boats? ...

Read more: Devilfish (1984) - Blu-ray Review

There goes the neighborhood!  That’s what happens when horror itself crashes a couple’s evening when they discover that those they’ve invited in are responsible for their daughter’s grisly demise.  And then, thanks to writer/director Wes Craven and producer Sean Cunningham ...

Read more: The Last House on the Left: Three-Disc Limited Edition (1972)

To the victor, long life and happiness!  And, in a movie about the search for the last fertile human woman on the planet (with over 500 uncontaminated eggs in her ovaries), that life had better be a damn good one. Welcome to the New Middle Ages on this garbage dump of ...

Read more: After the Fall of New York (1983) - Blu-ray Review

Know this, brothers and sisters: the underworld ALWAYS drags you down. Curtis Mayfield knew how to hit you hard with his soft voice.  He knew all about challenges and what is right and wrong for a society ...

Read more: Super Fly (1972) - Blu-ray Review

It has to suck to watch a film suffer in its comprehension due to a missing reel. It almost screams of sabotage. But such is the case for A Breed Apart, now on blu-ray thanks to Shout Factory. Featuring Rutger Hauer protecting an island sanctuary and crawling nude ...

Read more: A Breed Apart (1984) - Blu-ray Review

Celebrities Tom Selleck and Roger Mosley, before they starred in Magnum P.I. together, were stuck on a different island located on a different sea. And it definitely was not as scenic as Hawaii. Well, Phyllis Davis (Sweet Sugar) was there so I guess there were definitely massive ...

Read more: Terminal Island (1973) - Blu-ray Review

There is a disturbing loneliness that is central to this low budget horror flick from 1975.  Its subject matter is disturbing.  Its sexuality is raw.  It is a movie about a vampire with no fear of crosses or garlic.  And in Mexico, there is no escaping the sun.  An American Vampire  ...

Read more: Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary (1975) - Blu-ray Review