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“Things are not always what they seem in this place.” Upon its original theatrical release in 1986, Jim Henson’s final directorial feature, Labyrinth, was not able to find its audience as it flopped in the U.S Box office and received mixed reviews among critics of the time. But fortunately thanks to home ...
Read more: Labyrinth 35th Anniversary Edition - 4K ULTRA HD + BLU-RAY + DIGITAL (1986) - Review
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- By Loron Hays
The new Michael Bryce is now part of a royally messed up family. But do we care? We probably didn’t need a sequel to 2017’s misfire buddy cop movie, The Hitman’s Bodyguard, but we got one anyway. Thing is, The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard is more of the same so - and this is the good news (I guess) - if you liked ...
Read more: The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Loron Hays
“And the lamplight streaming shows his shadow on the floor.” Some say this is David Cronenberg’s best film. While I may not necessarily agree with that suggestion, I have to agree - and this is wholeheartedly - that, The Dead Zone, just might be one of the best Stephen King adaptations ...
Read more: The Dead Zone: Collector's Edition (1983) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Loron Hays
Beware, thar be sea creatures here! Thanks to producer Nico Mastorakis (Island of Death, The Zero Boys, The Wind), Richard Jefferies, the screenwriter behind Scarecrows, The Vagrant, and Cold Creek Manor, steps behind the camera for the first time and takes viewers on yet another ...
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- By Loron Hays
There are few genre fans in the world that don’t know the name Guillermo del Toro, but in 1997 he was still a relatively unknown entity to the western world. The Spanish director was hired by the Weinsteins to helm what was originally conceived as a three part short film project, quickly morphed ...
Read more: Mimic: The Director’s Cut (1997) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Loron Hays
Spiders the size of SUVs in a mining town full of crazy characters? Count me in! Eight Legged Freaks, starring David Arquette, Kari Wuhrer, Scott Terra, Scarlett Johansson, and Doug E. Doug, finally arrives on blu-ray courtesy of Scream Factory. For me, this B-grade horror ...
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I’m tweakin’ dude! One of my favorite B-grade flicks from Cinemax’s yesteryear is now on blu-ray! The Wraith has arrived! Complete with a crazy ass performance from Clint Howard (AND HIS HAIR) and Ozzy Osbourne’s “Secret Loser” (from The Ultimate Sin) blasting at the start of the first ...
Read more: The Wraith: Vestron Video Collector's Series (1986) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Loron Hays
He’s really being the monster today! Why can’t he be more like his brother? With those two sentences, audiences are immediately thrust into the chaos that is 2005’s House of Wax. That opening, in which two bent out of shape parents struggle with their wild twin sons ...
Read more: House of Wax: Collector's Edition (2005) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Loron Hays
Can I have my light back, Reggie? With guns blazing and fierce energy kicking about in its insides Walter Hill’s 48 Hrs. is a violent and truly funny action comedy. When it was originally release, it was the movie which rocketed Eddie Murphy to stardom thanks to his performance on ...
Read more: Paramount Presents: 48 Hrs. - 4K Restoration (1982) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Loron Hays
The Iceman cometh! Yeah, so Another 48 Hrs. might not be the film fans wanted at the time of its release, but it still EXPLODES with action scenes that sees bodies flying all sorts of places as they are shot by a crazy biker gang. And that’s ...
Read more: Paramount Presents: Another 48 Hrs. - 4K Restoration (1990)
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Talk about a CLOWN DAY AFTERNOON! Coming straight at you from the weird and wacky center of 1990s Forgotten Gems aisle comes Bill Murray, Geena Davis, Randy Quaid, and Jason Robards in Quick Change, a comedic heist film in which Murray appears ...
Read more: Quick Change : The Warner Archive Collection (1990) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Loron HAys
After Howard the Duck’s surprise appearance in Guardians of the Galaxy, I knew it was only a matter of time before Universal went into their vaults and hatched our fowl friend’s blu-ray debut for audiences ...
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Now THIS is how you do it! The title says it all. Godzilla in one corner of the ring. King Kong in the other. And one HELL of a battle in the space between these two titans. And, within seconds of it opening, we get the added bonus of this series FULLY embracing its science fiction leanings with two ...
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- By Loron Hays
Boobs! Bullets! Bawdy Babes! What’s not to love about Angie Dickinson in Big Bad Mama?! Nothing! Absolutely nothing! And producer Roger Corman knows it which is why Big Bad Mama is a curvaceous cult classic. The sequel made in 1987? Well, not so much, but - hey- (going ...
Read more: Big Bad Mama/Big Bad Mama II: Big Bad Double Feature (1974, 1987) - Blu-ray Review
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Guns! Sin! And bathtub gin! In this women-centered d♀uble feature from Shout! Factory, Crazy Mama takes a commanding lead for Producer Roger Corman as Academy Award winner Cloris Leachman pulls off yet another crazy character with that of Melba Stokes as she and her crazy family embark on a road trip like ...
Read more: Crazy Mama/The Lady in Red D♀uble Feature (1975, 1979) - Blu-ray Review
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It might be intense and rather somber, but there’s no mistaking the meaning behind Revenge of the Bushido Blade! Someone is out for BLOOD! Presented for the first time in a brilliant and shockingly glossy 4K remaster, Revenge of the Bushido Blade (aka The Last Reunion or ...
Read more: Revenge of the Bushido Blade (1978) - Blu-ray Review
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Freedom! Adventure! Flying like Peter Pan across . . . a circuit board?! Damn straight! Forget about Neverland, folks! Back when Explorers was originally made, it was the digital age that we were venturing into and, with an opening flying montage as Ethan Hawke bursts through heavy ...
Read more: Explorers: Collector's Edition (1985) - Blu-ray Review
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In which Joe Dante, the director of Piranha, The Howling, Gremlins, The Burbs, Matinee, Innerspace, and other cult classics, turns toys into objects of delightful HORROR! It’s as if The Puppetmaster and Toy Story met in a dark alley and had a quickie, giving birth to this cult classic 9 months ...
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Recycled! Repurposed! These riot girls RULE the battleground known as the GridIron! Opening with a very brief scene involving the collection of freshly sawed off limbs and then a much longer all girl punk rock band beatdown, Spare Parts welcomes us all back to the bloody arena of ...
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Genevieve is completely CRACKERS and I love it! Nicholas Michael Jacobs, independent film director of Night, Urban Fears, and Tales from Six Feet Under, is back with his latest horror/comedy, Genevieve. This time out his take on the whole Annabelle doll haunting series of flicks gets served ...
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Oscar Winners Martin Landau and José Ferrar in a monster movie with grand laughs? Sign me up! A very nude girl paints her toes in her bedroom. It is night and she’s clueless as to what foul beast is lurking just outside her house. It is a slug-like monster the size of a bear and ...
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Anyone have some change? Frank and Josie are back! I am not sure if it is the whole Generation X side of me, but Career Opportunities - which is essentially The Breakfast Club set inside Home Alone - was my jam back in high school. There’s a part of me that still ...
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This Italian-Spanish co-production is a shoddy-looking horror film. Know that first. Panic, also known as Bakterion) is also quite interesting in its own way, weaving a tale about scientists who create something they cannot even hope to control through failed bacteria experiments, as it has more ...
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My daddy was a bank robber! I’ve said it before and I will continue to say it again and again and again: Liam Neeson is "The January Man". Ever since the success of Taken, he’s been in just about every January-released action flick that you can imagine becoming cinema's own Winter ...
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- By Loron Hays
It’s time to unfocus your eyes! Forgive. Forget. And deal a mighty ass-whooping out to all those who would seek to do you harm! Blind Fury is back, baby! ...
Read more: Blind Fury: Retro VHS Packaging (1989) - Blu-ray Review
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When worms attack! Welcome back to Perfection, Nevada! There’s not a lot to do or see here in the desert sands. But none of it prevents the few who do live here from being super paranoid. There is something out there in the swirling sands and acrid heat. Which is why ...
Read more: Tremors: Limited Edition 4K Restoration (1990) - Blu-ray Review
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Craving a howling good time at home? The Wolf of Snow Hollow, with its offbeat humor and characters, is your meal ticket for small town terror . . . you just have to be willing to follow the breadcrumbs ...
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“Wayne! Coffee break!” Everything about Giant from the Unknown leads me to believe that it might be one of the films that influenced David Lynch to do what he does with film. You've got buckets of hot coffee, a lizard in a rock, hallowed out lodges, crazy creatures walking out from thick ...
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Do not fear, Max Cloud is here! Side-scrolling gamers and Scott Adkins (Ip Man 4: The Finale, Doctor Strange, Accident Man, and The Expendables 2) fans might be interested in checking out The Intergalactic Adventures of Max Cloud, but EVERYONE should be warned that ...
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The Friend of All Children has arrived! Otherwise known as the Guardian of the Universe, Gamera is what happens when you imagine a turtle flying alongside your plane on a hot summer day. Debuting as an aggressive bipedal monster capable of flying the not so friendly skies, this massive turtle calmed ...
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- The Amityville Horror House
- The Black Dahlia Murder - The Death of Elizabeth Short
- The Death of Actress Jane Russell
- The Death of Brandon Lee
- The Death of Chris Farley
- The Death of Dominique Dunne
- The Death of George Reeves - the Original Superman