Reel Reviews - Movie Reviews, blu-ray/DVD reviews

Crawl (2019) - Movie Review

Pure flesh-eating B-movie delight.

Midsommar (2019) - Movie Review

Not a sweet little trip to the neighborhood IKEA

Black Bridge - Movie Review

Definitely worth the trip

Spider-Man: Far From Home - Movie Review

A breezy sit through that does emotionally resonate

Shazam! - Blu-ray Review

Packed with heart and laughs

Pet Sematary - Blu-ray Review

Won’t haunt you afterwards

The Best of Enemies (2019) - Blu-ray Review

Never earns our honest emotions

Us (2019) - Blu-ray Review

Delightfully exhilarating, and at times terrifying

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In the Cold of the Night (1990) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 21 March 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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 ...

Showdown: MVD Rewind Collection (1993) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 21 March 2019; Written by Loron Hays

“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 ...

The Suckling (1990) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 20 March 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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 ...

The Witches (1966) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 20 March 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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 Doesn't Kill Us (2019) - Movie Review

Details: Published: 20 March 2019; Written by Loron Hays

What if the Zombie Apocalypse failed? What if the miracle of science saved both the survivors and those that were turned? ...

Dominique (1978) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 19 March 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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 ...

Night (2019) - Movie Review

Details: Published: 19 March 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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 ...

The Deadly Mantis (1957) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 19 March 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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 ...

Man's Best Friend (1993) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 18 March 2019; Written by Loron Hays

“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. ...