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Val Lewton, making 1940s B-flicks look nothing like other horror films of the 1940s, is a certifiable genius of the cinema. His ability to plunge audiences straight into nightmares is uncanny. Madness and death, there’s our recurring fear factor in ...
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Still considered today to be one of Harold Lloyd’s finest films, The Kid Brother makes its debut on blu-ray thanks to the the Criterion Collection. It is, of course, one of Lloyd’s sweetest and funniest films, with more sight gags than his others, in which Lloyd plays Harold Hickory ...
Read more: The Kid Brother: The Criterion Collection (1927) - Blu-ray Review
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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 ...
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“Why are there potatoes on the board every day? Who took my desk? Put that knife away!” If your high school was anything like the knife-wielding, gun-toting, slingshot-carrying school that is featured in Showdown then, man, you just might ...
Read more: Showdown: MVD Rewind Collection (1993) - Blu-ray Review
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When in doubt, Big Mama knows! This is what happens when AWFUL becomes ART. I can hear the pro-lifers waxing poetic about this trashterpiece now. A woman’s aborted fetus attacks her ...
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He will EAT your soul! That’s the threat that is received when The Witches, a supernatural horror film from Hammer Studios, opens as a school teacher at a mission school in Africa is quickly packing her things. There is trouble afoot and the tribal drums are an indicator ...
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What if the Zombie Apocalypse failed? What if the miracle of science saved both the survivors and those that were turned? ...
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With her decision made, there can be only one force that flings open the double doors that lead to one character’s fate. And she will walk down the long haul with the balls of her feet digging into the ground with intention. Everyone thinks she’s mad anyway. The taking of her own life will be no real shock ...
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With all its talk of radars and Pine Tree Radar Fences, it’s a wonder that The Deadly Mantis, warning of a sneak attack across the polar ice (by anyone), manages to be so much fun. STILL! But, honestly, few things in the cinematic world beat the scene where the giant insect ...
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For my money, POV horror can still deliver when there is an engaged mind at the helm. This is exactly why Night, a new horror film from the sick mind of writer/director/actor Nicholas Michael Jacobs, works as well as it does ...
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Carl Weathers doesn't take no lip. Watch him; however, take a baseball bat to the face of one crooked cop in Bucktown. It is a scene you won't likely forget anytime soon ...
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No more power ballads! No more power ballads! That’s the chant that guitarist Pager (Rhys Coiro) of Sonic Grave keeps repeating. He’s had enough of the panty-dropping cheese and wants to rock out at Coachella this year. Can anyone blame him? The 1980s are dead and ...
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Never a great movie, this one is for Christopher Lee purists only. Curse III: Blood Sacrifice has nothing to do with the other movies in the series. That should be your first indication of exactly where this one is headed. It does have some interesting moments, though. Shadows ...
Read more: Curse III: Blood Sacrifice (1991) - Blu-ray Review
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It doesn’t take long for Sister Street fighter to kick a lot of ass. From catching flies and throwing them down the mouths (and up the noses) of her enemies to all the strategically thrown forks, Tina (Sue Shiomi) is a martial artist badass that knows her way through a crowded ...
Read more: Sister Street Fighter Collection - Blu-ray Review
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We are the weirdos, Mister. Honestly, in a modern day viewing, The Craft feels richer than it did when I originally saw the film. There is a lot to appreciate about the film and its tale of sisterhood among four high school friends. The situations feel real and, certainly, the black ...
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Read more: The Craft: Collector's Edition (1996) - Blu-ray Review
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When you think of a New Year’s Eve party, the last thing you would expect to attend are aliens. But that’s exactly what happens in Alien Party Crashers, a new science fiction comedy from High Octane Pictures. Self-invited and definitely not afraid to double-dip the same ...
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“Is this dog incredible or what?” That’s the question Ally Sheedy asks her cameraman when, after being attacked by a stranger, a hulking dog she just rescued from a vivisection experimental lab runs off the would-be burglar and fetches her purse. ...
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The unnatural body contortions and bed thumpings happen early in The Possession of Hannah Grace. What we have come to expect from these movies of possession is shoved right in our faces before we are even ready for our popcorn ...
Read more: The Possession of Hannah Grace (2018) - Blu-ray Review
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She's a fugitive kind! Slashers probably should only drag bodies on the ground and not the actual pacing. I’m not saying Splatter University is a horrible horror film, but truly the only thing that can save this wacky mess from itself are the drinking games you are going to make ...
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Ol’ Jimmie needs a drink at the Huddle II. That’s how Invasion of the Blood Farmers begins. The film, a true trashterpiece of schlock SINema is wildly absurd, sick-minded, and loopy as hell. It is also a ripe find thanks to Severin’s blu-ray release of this grindhouse classic ...
Read more: Invasion of the Blood Farmers (1972) - Blu-ray Review
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This is why you don’t bring cats anywhere. Fuckin’ cats, man. The hissing; the clawing; the weird mutant living inside of them. Uninvited, for those who can take your bad guys being George Kennedy, Alex Cord, and Clu Gulager, is a literal handbook in all the reasons why ...
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Because making sense is so overrated! Director Norman J. Warren's Bloody New Year might not ever make a whole hell of a lot of sense, but it sure is fun. Time loops are like that, I suppose. But when six friends arrive on an island with an abandoned hotel on it, they have no ...
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“Is this the camp by the lake?” “No. This is the house by the pond.” Hilarious. Kids born to be murder victims. That’s merely one of the great lines in the super-soaked B-movie classic from 1991, right before the decade started to drown itself in plaid and combat boots. Shot to be fun and ...
Read more: There's Nothing Out There! (1991) - Blu-ray Review
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Harry Trent (Matt Mitler) is us all. Wisecracking, full of piss and vinegar, and one hell of a pilot, his roundabout with fate occurs happens on the day the Earth is destroyed. You see, Trent has just stolen a space shuttle and, high above the earth, he watches as hairy ...
Read more: Battle for the Lost Planet/Mutant War (1986, 1988) - Blu-ray Review
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I hate buying cars. I hate the hassle and I hate dealing with the annoying sales people. But I know lots of other people love the art of the deal. And that’s where Used Cars, a film executive produced by Steven Spielberg and John Milius, comes into play. It is sort of a bridge ...
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He's the leader of the pack! Stop me if you have heard this one before: the critical reaction to the latest Nicolas Cage movie just leveled Hiroshima. Yup. Yup. Yup. All true, mofos. Well, here’s another one that fits that description . . . except that, once again, the critics are ...
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Beneath a full moon, one man walks alone. There is a pain in his side; something within him that is awakened whenever he is sexually aroused. He, after making a deal with the devil, knows exactly what it means and face it alone he must . . . or at least he needs to be ...
Read more: Beast of the Yellow Night (1971) - Blu-ray Review
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First, there was It Came From Outer Space and then there was The Creature from the Black Lagoon. Both of those films – and the success they shared – led to Universal’s B-movie dominance in the 1950s and, no matter how minor of it a flick it was, we have a curio ...
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If you thought that the opening battle in Saving Private Ryan was intense, you haven’t seen anything yet. Overlord takes that PTSD-causing opening to task with a sequence in the skies above Germany as American paratroopers are absolutely gutted right before our ...
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Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminaaaaaaate! Guess who is back?!?!?! The Eleventh Season of the rebooted Doctor Who has had its fair share of criticisms, beginning with the fact that the beloved Doctor has regenerated into a female. Truthfully, actress Jodie Whittaker is ...
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- The Black Dahlia Murder - The Death of Elizabeth Short
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- The Death of Chris Farley
- The Death of Dominique Dunne
- The Death of George Reeves - the Original Superman