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Believe it or not, the meta-munching kills of Babyface (Raicho Vasilev) are back! Completely ignored by damn near everyone at the time of its release, The Hills Run Red brought the “babyface” mask to horror enthusiasts a decade before Happy Death Day and Happy Death Day 2 U and ...
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Produced and expertly directed by Sean S. Cunningham and written by Victor Miller, Friday the 13th, being the first independent movie to get distributed by a major studio, never seems to get the credit it deserves. We take it for granted with much of the discussion revolving around which ...
Read more: Friday the 13th: 40th Anniversary Limited Edition SteelBook (1980) - Blu-ray Review
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This place gives me nightmares! Ever felt buried by all your work? The Dead Pit takes that saying literally and concerns itself with a mad doctor who, 20 years ago, was killed and buried alongside his human experiments . . . in the basement of an asylum. The hope was that he’d never ...
Read more: The Dead Pit Collector's Edition (1989) - Blu-ray Review
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Independently made in glorious black-and-white cinematography by producer, writer, special effects supervisor Bert I. Gordon (King Dinosaur, Attack of the Puppet People, The Amazing Colossal Man, Village of the Giants, and Empire of the Ants), The Spider is quick to the kill, opening ...
Read more: The Spider (aka Earth Vs. The Spider) (1958) - Blu-ray Review
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And just like that, a drive-in classic comes to blu-ray! Thanks to Dark Force Entertainment, Teenage Hitchhikers arrives with a brand new HD Master from the original camera negative with hours of scene by scene color corrections. Time to get those thumbs out and ready for the winding ...
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“Sometimes the only way I know you’re still alive is when I hear ya flush the toilet!” Don’t adjust your television set! The little blue streak shooting across a rather bland-looking photo of the galaxy as the title card for THE GIANT SPIDER INVASION appears means that aliens have arrived in ...
Read more: The Giant Spider Invasion (1975) - Blu-ray Review
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Take your pick, fellow kaiju geeks! The latest double billing to hit the blu-ray market has a lot to offer fans of Japanese late 50's sci-fi flicks as both The H-Man (from 1958) and Battle in Outer Space (from 1959) make their blu-ray debut thanks to Mill Creek Entertainment ...
Read more: The H-Man/Battle in Outer Space (1958, 1959) - Blu-ray Review
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It shouldn’t be a shock to anyone that this horror classic begins with a scream. It’s as if writer/director Lucio Fulci is already expecting the shrieking as Father William Thomas (Fabrizio Jovine) wanders aimlessly around a cemetery. The slow driving beat of the electronic score from ...
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Chuck Norris, soaked in a profile of shadows, standing atop a red bluff in the Southwest might be one of the most striking images in Lone Wolf McQuade, an action flick which prides itself in showing the rugged manliness of one man’s individualism against a crazy force of criminal activity ...
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“Gappa. No God. Gappa. Fly.” With those words of warning from a native boy, a crew of scientific explorers, specifically Hiroshi Kurosaki (Tamio Kawaji) and Itoko Koyanagi (Yoko Yamamoto), discover more than they expect on a remote island in the Pacific Ocean ...
Read more: Gappa: The Triphibian Monster (1967) - Blu-ray Review
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Stay loose! The original classic, The Mechanic, is back for your viewing pleasure and it's been carefully remastered in 2K thanks to Scorpion Releasing. Prepare for this assassin, a member of an unnamed top secret organization, to absolutely blow you away with its meticulous pacing and its ...
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Danger, high voltage! They Came From Beyond Space, a low-key alien flick from the 1960s has arrived on blu-ray thanks to Kino Lorber with a brand-new 4K master. Don’t get too excited by that cover art, though. It looks awesome, but has nothing to do with the film itself. ...
Read more: They Came From Beyond Space (1967) - Blu-ray Review
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Want punishment or pleasure? I guess that depends on your take on Al Adamson's filmography because Severin Films has gone and done it again, making blu-ray history with the quickie king of kernel-sized trash filmmaking thanks to their MASSIVE release of Al Adamson: The Masterpiece Collection, the most comprehensive Blu-ray Box set ever dedicated to the works ...
Read more: Al Adamson: The Masterpiece Collection (1960 - 2019) - Blu-ray Review
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A silk-suited jogging Adam West (Batman) in a bizarro biker flick? Where the hell do I sign up to see this example of gonzo-like gear-head shenanigans?! Turns out the new Vinegar Syndrome Archive line - complete with a hand numbered slipcase that opens from the ...
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It's the sequel no one wanted. Go in knowing this. The opening few minutes of Brahms: The Boy II are this film’s best. Shocking and thrilling, an unsuspected home invasion rocks the idyllic world of Liza (Katie Holmes, Dawson’s Creek) and her son Jude (Christopher Convery, The Girl in the Spider’s Web). It’s a ...
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