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Oh, but no. Just no. Having no idea what to expect from a movie entitled Pawn Shop Chronicles but sporting an interesting cast, I thought I would give it a fair shake. Unfortunately, that’s where my fairness ends. This redneck attempt at Pulp Fiction is neither ...
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- By Loron Hays
I’m being generous with a 3 star review for Larry Cohen’s flawed movie, I know. Kick dust at me. Go ahead. The gimme-my-paycheck acting of David Carradine is terrible; the court scenes are grueling at best; the twitching of Michael Moriarty, the dopiness ...
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“Super cops in Hong Kong are cheap and plentiful like commodities in supermarkets.” . . . in which Jackie Chan, martial arts maestro by way of Buster Keaton, gets introduced to American
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“Wolfman’s got nards!” You know who to call when you have ghosts, but who do you call about monsters?!! The Monster Squad - a group of young kids devoted to protecting their suburban neighborhood from strange things that go bump in the night - ain’t afraid of no ghouls! ...
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"What's a kid gonna shoot a silver .44 bullet at anyway?" Finally. With this 4K Collector’s Edition from Scream Factory, a long requested top 10 horror film arrives with picture-perfect clarity! Stephen King’s Silver Bullet, starring Gary Busey, Everett McGill ...
Read more: Silver Bullet (Collector's Edition) - 4K UHD Review
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Produced and expertly directed by Sean S. Cunningham and written by Victor Miller, Friday the 13th, being the first independent movie to get distributed by a major studio, never seems to get the credit it deserves. We take it for granted with much of the discussion revolving around which ...
Read more: Friday the 13th (1980) Steelbook - 4K Blu-ray UHD Review
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Well… this is a renowned cult horror flick from the sixties that has been on my to watch list for far too long. Hammer took up the classic monsters mantel after Universal milked its roster dry back in the 40s. And to great success, I might add. They had already given us Christopher Lee’s Dracula ...
Read more: The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) - Blu-ray Review
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Part Woman. Part Machine. Total Destruction. When was the last time we had a female kickass alien cyborg film? It’s been a hot minute since, hmm, 1993. Which is why SheBorg (originally released as SheBorg Massacre, a better title if you ask me) immediately grabbed my ...
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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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And it comes right at you! Exploding from the screen and absolutely thrilling in its rendering, It Came From Outer Space, with an eerie performance from Russell Johnson (This Island Earth, Attack of the Crab Monsters, "Gilligan's Island"), is damn near revolutionary-looking ...
Read more: It Came From Outer Space (1953) - 4K UHD + Blu-ray Review
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Mystic shield! Fireball! Pulse blast! And some really bad acting! That’s right, Ouija Shark is back in our world! The highly-anticipated follow up to the smash cult hit will be available on digital platforms on July 25th from Wild Eye Releasing ...
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Oh, Doctor Young! Bells will ring! Rockets will take off! A kangaroo will play a big brass horn! That’s what happens when Linda Lovelace (Linda Boreman) finally understands that her clitoris is actually in her mouth and not between her legs. All these years, she’s been ...
Read more: Deep Throat (1972): Collector's Edition - Blu-ray Review
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In cine-massacre history, there are few films that compare to the in-the-gut feeling Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre leaves you with. Every imperfection in this low-budget Slasher works in the movie’s favor and adds to the overall grisly experience. The movie is not as violent or as ...
Read more: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) - 4K UHD + Blu-ray Review
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This Roger Corman-produced slasher/comedy was long overdue on blu-ray, but it makes a fairly early 4K release and for all of the right reasons, too. It was originally made in 1982 on a shoestring budget and featured as many boobs as grizzly power-tool murders. Directed by Amy Holden Jones ...
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It’s been written that, “the woods are lovely, dark and deep” but are they really? After watching the opening 10 minutes of Guts On The Chainsaw (with narration from Robert Stone), you’ll be questioning that statement yourself. After all, according to the movie, there are over 407 open cases ...
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The introduction to this low budget feast tells us all we need to know . . . “The great virus started in 2019. In the first 2 years almost 5 million people died worldwide. In 2022 a new strain hit and 5 million people a month were dying. No vaccine was effective. This created high gas prices, food ...
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Exploitation vigilantism never kicked so hard as it does here in the second installment of the Death Wish series. Newly remastered thanks to the efforts of Vinegar Syndrome and MGM, Death Wish II can now be seen ...
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Bubba Ho-Tep and I have finally made up. I get it. I finally get why the movie absolutely works and why my punk-ass comments when it was originally released were so naïve. To borrow a line from Gatsby's Nick Carraway, “in my younger and more vulnerable years” I was a complete tool ...
Read more: Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) - Collector's Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray Review
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That lone and long highway. The flickering camera as it cruises at high speeds on a dark night down it. The warbling, frenetic sounds as David Bowie softly croons, “I’m Deranged.” Yes, Lynch’s Lost Highway, and its videotaped while sleeping situation is back and this time it’s challenging ...
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The crazy clown mayhem of All Hallows Eve continues! Writer/Director Damien Leone knows how to commit to horror. I mean, without even batting an eye he serves up a whole platter of gore-iffic deserts, and sure, no one asked for them, but he definitely delivers on the special effects, turning his ...
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Confession time, children! Gather around. Closer, please. I'm going to whisper this to you before I spend an entire review proclaiming why. Here goes: I fucking love Bob Clark ...
Read more: Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (1972) - 4K UHD Review
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Super tongue strikes again! Bob Clark’s Black Christmas is a masterpiece of horror (and humor) that you truly can deck the halls with. There’s no other way to put it. Oh, the print critics had a field day punting it around at the time of its release, but the joke is on them. Its genre legacy speaks ...
Read more: Black Christmas (1974) - 4K UHD Collector's Edition Review
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Writer/director Eric Swelstad (The Curse of Lizzie Borden 2: Prom Night, Too Good to Be True) deserved better with his small town satanic panic flick, Heartland of Darkness. The film, also referred to as both Fallen Angels and Blood Church, works like gangbusters and delivers ...
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The Women-in-Prison genre of exploitation film is definitely not dead. It just needs some much needed resuscitation from brave filmmakers who aren’t afraid to exploit - what Roger Corman did in the late 60s (when the Hays Code was finally put to rest) - moral guidance. Anything for a shot of ...
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A vampire murder mystery? Sure! Why not? So, the intentions of this movie are perhaps a bit unclear. You have the famed director of Dracula, Tod Browning, teaming up with the man who is the embodiment of the world’s most famous vampire, Bela Lugosi, for a…non-Dracula vampire ...
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Even if you don't believe in vampires, sucking your way though town just got a hell of a lot classier. When you are 17-years-old, condoms aren’t the only protection needed when attempting to survive a ...
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Greetings, Starfighter! Arrow Video invited you to watch this 1984 science fiction classic in a way never before thought possible. With a newly restored 4k scan of the original negative and the 4.1 sound mix originally created for the 70mm release, The Last Starfighter returns to your living ...
Read more: The Last Starfighter: Arrow Video 4K Restoration (1984) - Blu-ray Review
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The Dead live ... again! There’s no denying that Criterion’s handling of writer/director George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead just might be the most important blu-ray release of the year ...
Read more: Night of the Living Dead: Criterion Collection (1968) - Blu-ray Review
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The Dead live ... again! This time in Ultra 4K, thanks to the Criterion Collection. This release includes a 4K digital restoration, supervised by director George A. Romero, "Night of Anubis," a work-print edit of the film, and two audio commentaries featuring Romero, the film's producer and ...
Read more: Night of the Living Dead (1968) - 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray Combo Review
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Shot on video and completely off its rocker as it relishes in its super low, low, low budget with early CGI effects thanks to Rob Neep, Blood of the Chupacabras begins with a disclaimer about the very existence of the creature at the center of this bloodbath and then, after a mother kicks some kids ...
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