BADass SINema Unearthed - Blu-ray Review

Billy Zane.  Billy Zane.  Billy “You fucking ho-dunk, po-dunk, well then there motherfuckers!” Zane.  Demon Knight, the first “Tales from the Crypt” movie, finally arrives on a newly minted HD transfer thanks to the Horror Hounds at Scream Factory, an imprint of Shout Factory  ...

Swiping its title from an Edgar Allan Poe short story, The Oblong Box is American International Pictures’ answer to life after Roger Corman, who stopped his Poe & Price AIP film cycle in 1965.  This time, Gordon Hessler (The Golden Voyage of Sinbad), takes his first step behind  ...

I have to say that in the vampire category of horror flicks there are very few I find to be actually worthy of a true scare.  The Return of Count Yorga is one of those.  This new age take on sunny Californian vampirism succeeds where the original near skinflick, Count Yorga  ...

Riddle me this. Besides being movies I like, what do Evil Dead II, Moontrap, Army of Darkness and John Woo's Hard Target all have in common? It's not Bruce Campbell. It's the not the splatterific amount of gore either...but close. It's special effects artist Gary Jones  ...

Operating along the same guidelines as a raging bull in a china shop, James Roday’s directorial-debut Gravy, now appreciating a solid release on blu-ray thanks to Scream! Factory, is a gonzo-spirited horror-comedy that definitely does not disappoint.   This freewheeling comedy  ...

With the release of Jackie Chan’s Rumble in the Bronx and First Strike on blu-ray this week Warner’s back catalog of New Line titles finally begin their much-delayed martial arts HD rollout.  These are, mind you, bare-boned releases with a 2K visual upgrade and no special  ...

Hailing from the early years of the Blaxploitation movement in cinema, Jim Brown in 1972’s Slaughter is one helluva serious bad ass.   He never smiles and puts EVERYONE in his or her place.  The film – as its blu-ray arrives this week courtesy of Olive Films – remains  ...

With strong hues of murderous reds and neon blues, Tobe Hooper’s follow-up to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre has always been regarded as a stylized mess.  It is neither good enough nor horrible enough to dismiss without a second thought, though.  It is a movie that   ...

While most of sexploitation director Pete Walker’s films (Die Screaming, Marianne, The Flesh and Blood Show, House of Whipcord) have been greeted with disgust and condemnation, House of Long Shadows is his – as far as the horror genre goes – his most noteworthy. Check  ...

…in which we meet Invader ZIM’s inspiration. While perfectly harmless, Spaced Invaders is a kid’s movie that had the potential to be something a little bit more than a silly Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles knockoff. Halloween night. A War of the Worlds rebroadcast ...