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This release from Synapse Films of Suspiria is a work of pure art. It is also important and impactful, belonging in a time capsule AND in your collection of horror titles. It is, hands down, my pick for the best blu-ray release of the year. With only 6000 units produced ...
The damn doll at the center of this tale of kidnapping and insanity is an unsettling looking toy indeed. The curly-haired plastic child is always with the disturbed mother who is trying to get her daughter returned to her by any means necessary and, as the toy is oversized, it looks ...
Surrender. Forget the common and known world. Once you enter the wild and wacky world of Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood, life, as you know it, becomes permanently altered. There is a dream but you are not the dreamer ...
This theatre is damned! Sorry, Aronofsky, you aren’t as unique as was once thought. Étoile reveals all the reasons why. With Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake” at its center, Étoile – a rather enigmatic movie concerning ghosts, satanic possessions, and ballerinas – provides ...
It begins on a beach. A woman is laughing. She’s seeing all the muscles on display; the men hulking out in their shorts on the beach. Lots of ogling is going on. And she starts to laugh. She sees them working out and then she sees them with blood spurting out of fresh ...
Chi-Town. Karate. Chuck Norris. And a killer soundtrack from David Michael Frank. Is there anything – and this includes the synthesized score – that Code of Silence doesn’t get right? It is both character driven and intense, filling each scene with violence and ...
Because safe is a state of mind. The first warning happens right in front of the Pompidou Centre when a tourist’s camera, while he is recording his thoughts on one of the best-known sights in Paris, is stolen by an unidentified male. Hauling ass through a crowded...
The movie begins with a lightning strike and then another. A cascade of rain pounds against the backs and heads of a team of hikers who take shelter in a cave while the storm rages on. It is there they meet the bearded narrator of One Million B.C.; an anthropologist ...
“I feel like I am stuck inside a low budget horror film,” says Carmine Capobianco as he stares into the camera. He’s right, of course, he is stuck inside a low budget horror film and it is a glorious sight indeed to behold. Disconnected might not make a whole lot of sense ...
“I shot a cop . . . so what!” Good citizenship. Self-restraint. Politeness. Loyalty. These four words of social graces are written on a chalkboard that four girls pass by during the pre-credits scene in Ed Wood’s penned cult classic, The Violent Years. They are four words that ...