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The McPherson Tape (1989) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 06 May 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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They are here. They have always been here. The McPherson Tape (also known as UFO ABDUCTION) is proof. It doesn’t take long for the skies to ignite over the night sky of Northwoods, Connecticut. The McPherson family ...

A Nun's Curse - Movie Review

Details: Published: 06 May 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Let the Nunsploitation flicks resume! It’s time to face your fears. Writer/director Tommy Faircloth returns this May with what has to be his best film yet. A Nun’s Curse is both tense and frightening as the diabolical Sister Monday (genre icon Felissa Rose of Sleepaway Camp fame) returns to carry out ...

Muliple Maniacs: Criterion Collection (1970) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 05 May 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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“Think about the stations of the cross! Think about the stations of the cross!” With a tip of the hat to the splatterific offerings of Herschell Gordon Lewis and Freaks director Tod Browning, Multiple Maniacs takes aim at the Manson Family and at Catholicism as the tents of ...

Girls Just Wanna Have Blood - Movie Review

Details: Published: 05 May 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Babes! Boobs! Booze! The crude comedy running throughout this throwback flick screams for VHS aficionados to check it out. Get ready to crank the SLEAZE-O-RAMA amps to 11! With tongue planted firmly in its cheek, Girls Just Wanna Have Blood, a raunchy and relatively tasteless ...

Human Zoo - Movie Review

Details: Published: 04 May 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Just how far would you go for a million bucks? That’s the question central to the events in director John E. Seymore’s Human Zoo, a disturbing, psychological horror movie that is more a character study of us! ...

The Lost Continent (1968) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 03 May 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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"What happened to us? How did we all get here...?" With those questions, Captain Lansen (Eric Porter) watches as a coffin is slid into the orange-tinted sea. Standing next to the captain of the Corita, a tramp steamer, are priests, pirates, conquistadors, and his crew and, as the camera ...

Mom (1991) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 03 May 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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The Beachwood and Franklin community in Hollywood will never be the same once Mom moves in! Over-the-top and mad as hell, Mom is a late-night gem that hounds of horror will definitely dig. ...

Cry Havoc - Movie Review

Details: Published: 03 May 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Bullets! Boobs! Blood! Bronzi! Writer/director Rene Perez knows exactly what we want from our SINema and absolutely delivers a stunner of a genre mash-up with Cry Havoc. Cry Havoc, the fourth in a series of horror flicks from Perez, begins in an unsettling manner as a ...

Among Them - Movie Review

Details: Published: 01 May 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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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 ...

Bad Boys For Life - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 17 January 2020; Written by Frank Wilkins

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What does a filmmaker do when attempting to revive a franchise that has lain dormant for more than a decade? In the case of Bad Boys For Life, directors Adil and Bilall do what most other filmmakers have done: they adapt the story to fit a new cultural landscape, they riff ...