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- Created: 28 August 2020
- Published: 28 August 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
AS I have previously stated, Pre-Code Hollywood fascinates me. There are a lot of grand and wonderful films reflecting the true culture of the time period from 1930 – 1934. Man, it must have been a wild time. These films, featuring strong sexual innuendos, different races mingling ...
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- Created: 26 August 2020
- Published: 26 August 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
And with Pitch Black, Vin Diesel arrives! “They say most of your brain shuts down in cryo-sleep. All but the primitive side, the animal side. No wonder I'm still awake.” That opening line of voice-over narration is our first introduction to criminal Richard B. Riddick ...
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- Created: 24 August 2020
- Published: 24 August 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Suspense! Action! And GIANT telepathic crabs! What more could you ask for in a B-movie?!?! Absolutely nothing and that’s why Attack of the Crab Monsters, now on blu-ray with a brand-new 2K transfer thanks to Shout! Factory, continues to rule when it comes to non-stop Z-grade motion ...
Read more: Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 22 August 2020
- Published: 22 August 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Shout Factory is back at it with their HUGE collection of Roger Corman titles and, while these limited releases are only available through their store (www.shoutfactory.com), the titles are definitely worth owning, making these releases a lot like crate-digging for jazz records. Fans obsess about them and for ...
Read more: Caged Heat/Jackson County Jail (1974, 1976) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 21 August 2020
- Published: 21 August 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
In what might be one of the most exploitative openings in Hammer’s 1970 era, we see a grave robber (Doctor Who's Patrick Troughton) struggle mightily with a corpse in a grave and, after a police officer falls in the now-empty grave, we see a jar of gooey, squishy eyeballs (looking very ...
Read more: Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 20 August 2020
- Published: 20 August 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Big gun! Number one! Maybe it’s the heavy biker boots announcing his thunderous arrival to all lawbreakers in a post-global warming world. Maybe it’s the dark, circle-framed sunglasses through which he sees all varieties of criminal behavior in ...
Read more: Split Second: MVD Rewind Collection (1992) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 15 August 2020
- Published: 15 August 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Poor Ben (John-Paul Howard). No one believes him. No one. And he is seeing, as he has come in for the summer to work at his Dad’s marina, a lot of strange shit that defies easy explanation. Unfortunately, no one believes in witches anymore ...
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- Created: 11 August 2020
- Published: 11 August 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Eight discs, six stories, and 650 minutes of classic science fiction. That’s what fans get with the BBC’s latest Doctor Who release which features the fourteenth season of classic Doctor Who, constituting the third trip around the sun for Tom Baker in the titular role as everyone’s favorite ...
Read more: Doctor Who: Tom Baker - The Complete Season Three (1976 - 1977) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 07 August 2020
- Published: 07 August 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
The drugs! The coppers! The crimes! And the Femme Fatales! It's all here in The Sleeping City! Sometimes, as is the case with 1950’s The Sleeping City, Film Noir offerings are notable for one thing entirely: their use of their location. Okay, okay, so The Sleeping City - which has ...
Read more: Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema III: The Sleeping City (1950) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 07 August 2020
- Published: 07 August 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
“Mommy, can we come home?” With those words, Cookie (Melissa Leo) and her kid brother Tim (Randall Batinkoff) plead to return to their mother’s house. They’ve been kicked out because her new man hates them both. Their request is denied, so the two wander the bus station as ...