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- By Loron Hays
In cine-massacre history, there are few films that compare to the in-the-gut feeling Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre leaves you with. Every imperfection in this low-budget Slasher works in the movie’s favor and adds to the overall grisly experience. The movie is not as violent or as ...
Read more: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) - 4K UHD + Blu-ray Review
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- By Emily Strong
Opening upon a black-and-white vision of the New York city skyline, we are promptly checked into a classy hotel. But it seems that there aren’t too many classy activities going on here as we witness a giant, angered mobster forcing his wife to fess up where her debaucherous actions with the ...
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- By Loron Hays
Mystic shield! Fireball! Pulse blast! And some really bad acting! That’s right, Ouija Shark is back in our world! The highly-anticipated follow up to the smash cult hit will be available on digital platforms on July 25th from Wild Eye Releasing ...
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- By Emily Strong
On again, off again. In love, out of love. Going back to school, starting a new job. Everything is fluid and everything is changing in the whimsical and lustful drama from French director Jacques Audiard. Capturing the residential district of Les Olympiades in beautiful black and white photography ...
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- By Loron Hays
This Roger Corman-produced slasher/comedy was long overdue on blu-ray, but it makes a fairly early 4K release and for all of the right reasons, too. It was originally made in 1982 on a shoestring budget and featured as many boobs as grizzly power-tool murders. Directed by Amy Holden Jones ...
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- By Christopher Symonds
The anti-hero, the McGuffin, the duplicitous femme fatale, film noir, German expressionism seeping its way into western film—these things have influenced our movies for longer than this reviewer’s father was alive, and they’re things that we take for granted because they’ve become old hat. But ...
Read more: The Maltese Falcon (1941) - 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital HD Review
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- By Loron Hays
Embark on the ultimate action adventure that spans continents and explores ancient history with The Mummy Trilogy including The Mummy, The Mummy Returns and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. Follow the exhilarating journeys and exploits of daring explorer Rick O'Connell ...
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- By Loron Hays
Kitty’s back on the cell block! Woot! Woot! Let the sweat-dripping orgies begin! Violence in a Women’s Prison, originally released in 1982, is a damn ugly exploitation flick. Even when you lower the bar when it comes to Women in Prison flicks, this ...
Read more: Violence in a Women's Prison (1982) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Loron Hays
It’s been written that, “the woods are lovely, dark and deep” but are they really? After watching the opening 10 minutes of Guts On The Chainsaw (with narration from Robert Stone), you’ll be questioning that statement yourself. After all, according to the movie, there are over 407 open cases ...
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- By Emily Strong
What do you get when you combine the elevated emotions of a melodrama and the seedy, back-stabbing beats and visuals of a noir? This concoction is the exact recipe for Michael Curtiz’s delectably dark Mildred Pierce starring the incomparable Joan Crawford as the iconic title character ...
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- By Emily Strong
Stepping out of a car and into a cool Los Angeles night, Fantastia (Cynda Williams) enters into the home of what seems to be a good friend. In the background, a couple dances with smiles from ear to ear and another friend tests out his new video camera, taping them having unabashed ...
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You say want sex and violence? Well, the Masked Mutilator has EXACTLY what you are looking for. Just be respectful because this house parent will definitely kick your ass ...
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The introduction to this low budget feast tells us all we need to know . . . “The great virus started in 2019. In the first 2 years almost 5 million people died worldwide. In 2022 a new strain hit and 5 million people a month were dying. No vaccine was effective. This created high gas prices, food ...
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- By Emily Strong
Can a movie that is a mess also be considered genius? Well, that is the perpetual debate about Orson Welles’ The Lady from Shanghai. Based on the novel If I Die Before I Wake by Sherwood King, this film takes all of the noir essentials and twists them in such an entertainingly strange ...
Read more: The Lady From Shanghai (1947) - Special Edition Blu-ray Review
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- By Emily Strong
I think that we can all agree by now that, despite what classic Disney movies and other fairy tales of our childhood have led us to believe, being a queen (or any other piece of a royal family, to be honest) really isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Between the gossip and revelations exposed about a ...
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