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Kill the head! Kill the head! Jim Jarmusch, the writer/director of Night on Earth, Dead Man, Ghost Dog, Broken Flowers, Only Lovers Left Alive, and Coffee and Cigarettes, has made a zombie movie. That sentence alone, if you are a fan of independent films just this side of quirk, should get your heart racing. No? ...
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It’s all over, but the screaming. Even the British got in on the whole babysitter stalking trend. Wait. Back up. When was this film made? Oh hell, they helped bring it to the United States. The proof arrives in Scream Factory’s latest HD offering, Fright, starring Honor Blackman (Bond's ...
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She’s the horror hostess with the mostess. Guaranteed. But who is she? She was in a Bond film. She dated Elvis. At the age of 17, she was dancing in a gay bar. She’s been on the cover of a Tom Waits album. Hell, she’s sung in rock bands and worked with ...
Read more: Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (1988) - Blu-ray Review
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By now, the majority of movie lovers agree that Charlie Chaplin was ONE of the great geniuses of the silent era. That wasn’t always the case, though, and it probably took The Circus to get everybody on board his brand of cinema. At the time that this movie was ...
Read more: The Circus: The Criterion Collection (1928) - Blu-ray Review
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Pan’s Labyrinth premiered at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival where it received a 22-minute standing ovation, followed by its North American premiere at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival. The critically-acclaimed film won multiple awards, including three Academy Awards, three ...
Read more: Pan’s Labyrinth 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray (2006, 2019) - Blu-ray Review
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Jack Crow is on a mission. He wants to destroy ALL vampires. It’s a constant act of revenge. For him, it must be done. Without question. That’s the cost all these bloodsuckers pay for the deaths of his parents. And Crow, as the leader of a group of ruthless mercenary killers known as Team Crow, takes no prisoners. ...
Read more: John Carpenter’s Vampires: Collector’s Edition (1988) - Blu-ray Review
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Zombies from San Jose! Oh, snap. Is Oakland next? James Hong is a Hollywood Legend. Never heard of him? Well, you aren’t paying close enough attention to the voices and characters on your television screen. And, if you ...
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If you are ever offered a place to live in called Casa Fortuna, just say no. If you don’t, then the wig wearing witch inside it might just swallow your soul and no amount of voodoo chants can reclaim it back from her laser-shooting ...
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To this day, Gremlins remains director Joe Dante’s most successful movie. That seems pretty damn incredible when you consider Dante’s inspired body of work. For my tastes, there’s not a dud in the bunch. From Explorers to Small Soldiers, The Burbs and ...
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If all the padded nature shots won't kill you, then maybe the monster in the woods will! If I told you that this slasher was made in just two weeks, you would probably believe me. Every single detail (and edit for that matter) suggests ...
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Lucky number seven? Well, just barely. The seventh movie in the ongoing The Conjuring franchise isn’t the best of the series but, hopefully, it will be the final one involving that damn doll. She’s twisted as hell and, as revealed here, is a sort of conduit for all sorts of evil spirits, not just ...
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It’s Crocsploitation Cinema at its feistiest! The cheese! The chomp! The charm! What is this movie JAWS that you speak of?! And this Steven Spielberg, too? Apparently, the Italians have never heard of him or his pet shark. When it comes to fierce predators of the ...
Read more: Killer Crocodile/Killer Crocodile 2 (1989, 1990) - Blu-ray Review
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Dudes named Diablo don’t ever die. And you probably shouldn’t fuck around with them either – especially when they, upon the eve of their death sentence being carried out, vow to return . . . to kill everyone who chooses Florida as their ...
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28 episodes. 30 minutes. That’s all it took to change the world . . . or should that change be limited to just the airwaves? Because special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya definitely did that with Ultra Q, the black-and-white television series that gave us the first attempt ...
Read more: Ultra Q: The Complete Series (1966) - Blu-ray Review
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In the middle of the 1960s, Toho’s special effects maestro, Eiji Tsuburaya, was on quite a roll. As Ultra Q finished, the Tokyo Broadcasting System wanted a new television series with him at the helm. But this time they wanted something in color; something ...
Read more: Ultraman: The Complete Series (1966) - Blu-ray Review
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Five movies and one devil to rule them all! The Omen Collection is finally available! Joke all you want to about how Hellish it is to raise a kid, but Producer Harvey Bernhard was clearly on to something rich when he decided to double-down on ...
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Read more: The Omen Collection (1976, 1978, 1981, 1991, 2006) - Blu-ray Review
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The Firefly Clan is back! That’s right, they survived the shootout that marked the end of The Devil’s Rejects and, for the past decade, they have been rotting behind bars. Except, as the movie begins, there seems to be a change of direction in the condemning wind circulating ...
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It’s time to go back. Clocking in at a breezy 109 minutes, The Wizard of Oz is one of the finest examples of fantasy escapism that we have in film history. Let that soak in for a minute. Perhaps things would have been different had WWII not been right around the corner, but fact is fact ...
Read more: The Wizard of Oz 4K Ultra HD (1939, 2019) - 4K Blu-ray Review
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Imagine if the original Alien had been shot for 3-D? That chest-busting scene would have really leaped right off of the screen. One has to think that producer and director Charles Band, in his pre-Full Moon days, had been thinking about that ...
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It’s the eyes, man! It’s all about the eyes. Béla Lugosi (and those expressive eyebrows of his) definitely created a lot of memorable characters for cinema. He was always chewing the scenery and making each scene his ow; however, in The Human Monster (also known as The Dark Eyes of London) he ...
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To this day, there remains something insanely special about director Brian De Palma’s Carrie. It is based on the once-discarded novel by Stephen King, but was painstakingly adapted for the screen by Lawrence D. Cohen. Cohen got everything about King’s first novel right ...
Read more: Carrie: Collector's Edition (1976) - Blu-ray Review
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A single tear is all it takes for this dude to land all the ladies. His name is Cry-Baby and this is his story . . . with guitars! The motorcycles! The music! The Squares! The Drapes! And all the raging hormones! It’s 1954 again in Roger Waters’ classic teenage musical, Cry-Baby. It has been ...
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Being the ninth and final film in Hammer’s Dracula series, The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires definitely holds a special place in horror history. That’s not the limit of its legacy, though. Not by a longshot ...
Read more: The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974) - Blu-ray Review
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"I got my beer, I got my sex partner, what else do I need?” Blood Lake continues to exist because we all want to be like Little Tony. Fight me if you disagree. Having a camcorder doesn’t necessarily make you a horror film director. The same can be said ...
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Before Resident Evil, there was Warning Sign. Complete with an impressive synth score from Craig Safan, this thriller absolutely rocks and serves as the precursor to what would come in a lot of biohazard-themed flicks a decade AFTER its initial release ...
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“God, I love the desert!” This is what is loudly proclaimed by the Sunday school teacher who is sitting squarely at the center of Murderlust. Steve Belmont (Eli Rich) is a pathetic human being. As a Sunday school teacher, he uses his post to ensnare pretty young women ...
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When I was a young fool, my go-to movie was Forest Gump. I think I saw that damn film at least NINE times in the theater. I was graduating high school and leaving for college and that film just resonated with me. I was also lovesick and a complete idiot about it. This review ...
Read more: The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot (2018) - Blu-ray Review
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You ever wish there was more of you to go around? Feel completely wiped out at the end of the day? Willing to only stuff your face with one slice of pizza too many when you get home? If so, Sony and Columbia Pictures have the comedy for you ...
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A baboon’s heart, hockey, and one hell of a sweet story. That’s what you STILL get with Untamed Heart, now making its blu-ray debut Caroline (Marisa Tomei) has too good of a heart. So say her friends. And, judging by how happy she is to ...
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Mesmerizing pulp fiction. There simply is no other way to describe the powerful impact of Detour, a low budget gem from Poverty Row Pictures. Truthfully, the movie shouldn’t work as well at it does ...
Read more: Detour: The Criterion Collection (1945) - Blu-ray Review
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