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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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