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Talk about 1970s television star power! Everyone - from Kinky Friedman to Ruth Buzzi - is stocking the shelves at Record City. The familiar faces keep turning up in this store! ...
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Tucked far enough away from civilization, the bleak desert that surrounds the ranch at the center of this independently made feature from 1955 makes for some unsettling moments. There’s nothing around the ranch except sand and mountains in the distance. Its remote location is already changing the ...
Read more: The Beast with 1,000,000 Eyes (1955) - Blu-ray Review
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No one screams like Jamie Lee Curtis. No one. Combine those ear-piercing screams with a creepy Groucho Marx mask, a young David Copperfield, a ghostly train ride, and you have sure fire success for a late October night full of terror and mystery. Rising above the typical ...
Read more: Terror Train: Limited Edition (1980) - Blu-ray Review
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It doesn’t take Night Key very long to kick into high gear. Boris Karloff, starring as an inventor of a bank alarm who gets pissed that he’s not getting the money or the credit for his invention, finds himself in over his head with a group of gangsters who want to get rich quick. With nowhere to turn to ...
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What happens when like-minded British and Hong Kong film producers get together to make a cheapo-depot sex film? They ride the success of Alien, amp up the sex, and make one of the strangest exploitation films of the early 1980s. Inseminoid is a horror film like few others. Thanks to ...
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Giant-sized cockroaches in the Brady Bunch house?! Yes, please. What other secrets are those unclean Brady’s hiding? With Bug, a film that locks its horrors upon fire-farting cockroaches, we find out! ...
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Seven films into his career and Bong Joon Ho continues to impress audiences with dark and thoughtful material. This time, with Parasite, he delivers a film that is so topical and so well made that even Hollywood had to stop and take notice. Parasite is THAT memorable. ...
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Ray Harryhausen and his stop-motion work is legendary. While his stuff is slow to trickle out on blu-ray, the high-def picture and the clarity the format provides is always insightful into his creative processes. The latest round of his work comes from Indicator, a UK company that offers their ...
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Ladies and Gentlemen, Richard Stanley is back! I have just been introduced to my new go-to movie. Color Out of Space is right up there with Mandy when it comes to imaginative tales of terror. The mixture of CGI and practical effects in this science fiction horror narrative is downright disturbing ...
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Brewster’s Millions remains a screwball comedy that simply knocks it out of the park. Home runs don’t get much wilder than this ...
Read more: Brewster's Millions: Collector's Edition (1985) - Blu-ray Review
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Spookies, originally directed by Brenden Faulkner and Thomas Doran and then later, inserting additional footage, by Eugenie Joseph, is back to party once again! This cult classic - disappearing after a limited theatrical release, was revived on VHS and, eventually, became a standard broadcast ...
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This house is EVIL! At least, that’s the opinion of Helen (Claudia Franjul), one teenager in this group, when confronted with the option to stay the night in an abandoned mansion deep in the woods. She’s not sticking around to find out what ...
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Answering Roger Waters' questions in Pink Floyd's "Mother" comes Flesh-Eating Mothers, an over-the-top horror-comedy that encourages the local police department to shoot all mothers on the spot. Do not EVEN try to bring them in alive! ...
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All Eddie “The Hawk” Hawkins wants, upon his release from prison, is a cappuccino. What he gets instead is an unplanned - via coffin-sized suitcase - Looney Tunes-inspired trip to Italy to steal some of DaVinci’s most prized artifacts. ...
Read more: Hudson Hawk: Retro VHS Packaging (1991) - Blu-ray Review
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If stripteases in mining gear, hearts boiling alongside hot dogs, or dead women tumbling around in dryers aren’t your cup of tea then, well, I do believe there might be something wrong with you. My Bloody Valentine, being made in the wake of John Carpenter's Halloween EXPLOSION, is Canuxploitation at its finest and its furious and this ...
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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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Well, well, well, what do we have here? Scream Team Releasing drops a surprise release this month proving that it is never too late or too early to celebrate the Halloween season. 10/31 Part 2, with Malvolia, The Queen of Screams (Jennifer Nangle) once again hosting the beginning and ending bookend pieces in this ...
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Boom boom acka-lacka lacka boom! During the late 1980s and the early 1990s there was a boom in Dinosaur-themed entertainment. Thanks to Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park, these massive beasts were stomping into sitcoms
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You want swampy southern gothic shenanigans in your entertainment? Swamp Thing, as produced by DC Universe, has all your needs covered. DC Universe really screwed up. I mean, royally. Swamp Thing, as a web series, is dark and disturbing ...
Read more: Swamp Thing: The Complete Series (2019) - Blu-ray Review
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The heat is BACK on! Long before Detectives Mike Lowery (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) hit the streets in pursuit of crime and criminal activity there was plainclothes Detective Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) bringing his rather chaotic (and hilarious) brand of law and order to the colorful streets of ...
Read more: Beverly Hills Cop Trilogy (1984, 1987, 1994) - Blu-ray Review
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There couldn’t possibly be a creepier basement in the history of Horror films! Lucio Fulci's House by the Cemetery is re-opened once again thanks to Blue Underground. ...
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Watching wickie Ephraim Winslow, who is already having visions of mermaids and tentacled monsters, fly into a momentary fit of rage, grab a one-eyed seagull, and then beat it religiously against a cistern until it is beyond dead might be one of the most memorable scenes in The Lighthouse, a ...
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The Golem's not headed your way, Willie. The Golem has arrived!A beloved animated project - with some fans still clamoring for a live action movie version - is back on store shelves! Batman Beyond, containing all three seasons of the cult classic and its movie finale, has landed on ...
Read more: Batman Beyond: The Complete Series (1999 - 2001) - Blu-ray Review
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A tiny horse. One mad scientist. And a really big wrench. These are only part of the gonzo territory of Ernest R. Schoedsack and Merrian C. Cooper’s shrink ray-centered tale of B-grade science and terror. Dr. Cyclops and the obsession with shrinking things lives on! The heroes ...
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Finally. With this Collector’s Edition from Scream Factory, a long-requested top 10 horror film arrives on blu-ray with a cleaned-up transfer and NEW supplemental items. ...
Read more: Silver Bullet: Collector's Edition (1985) - Blu-ray Review
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Satanism and switchblade violins make quite the combination in this blast from the past! Luigi Cozzi’s Paganini Horror probably shouldn’t exist. Sure, sure, I mean, the film does have some merit thanks to its wicked premise, but its execution - amounting to a bunch of screaming (mostly) female rock and ...
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Murders in the Rue Morgue was a gift to Bela Lugosi. After being axed from Frankenstein, Universal Pictures’ President Carl Laemmle Jr. offered him the role of the lunatic scientist who abducts women and then injects them with the blood of his pet ape, Erik (performed by Charles Gemora). Lugosi, not willing ...
Read more: Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) - Blu-ray Review
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Teen Titans, GO! The pseudo-anime style. The jokes. And, man, the storylines. Teen Titans has it all! This cartoon series - with a cast of superhero characters that included Robin, Beast Boy, Starfire, Cyborg, and Raven - kicked all sorts of ass during its original three year run. Now, thanks to ...
Read more: Teen Titans: The Complete Series (2003 - 2006) - Blu-ray Review
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More thrills and even more chills! Karloff. Lugosi. Rathbone. And Vincent Price in his film debut. What’s not to love about these names or their film legacies? Absolutely nothing at all and the proof is Scream Factory's new 2K scanned release of the films that make up the ...
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And this is why you do NOT overdo it with peanut butter. Thank God we can all learn from Michael’s (Matthew Mackay) messy misadventures with a lot of gooey crap and way too much peanut butter. If David Lynch made a children’s movie, it is no stretch of the imagination to suggest that it ...
Read more: The Peanut Butter Solution (1985) - Blu-ray Review
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