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Details: Created: 13 August 2018; Published: 13 August 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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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 ...

Details: Created: 12 August 2018; Published: 12 August 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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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 ...

Details: Created: 10 August 2018; Published: 10 August 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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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 ...

Details: Created: 08 August 2018; Published: 08 August 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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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 ...

Details: Created: 08 August 2018; Published: 08 August 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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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 ...

Details: Created: 07 August 2018; Published: 07 August 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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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 ...

Details: Created: 07 August 2018; Published: 07 August 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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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 ...

Details: Created: 07 August 2018; Published: 07 August 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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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 ...

Details: Created: 07 August 2018; Published: 07 August 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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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 ...

Details: Created: 24 July 2018; Published: 24 July 2018; Written by Loron Hays

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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 ...