DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

Ah, the glory of the small-scale UK cinema. Full of tightly-wound tension and white-knuckled suspense, The Legend of Hell House is the quintessential haunted house for the ages. Screenwriter Richard Matheson adapts his own novel, appropriately titled “Hell House”, and  ...

With more grit and ambition than your average television series, The Walking Dead continues its mad march toward total zombie annihilation with the release of its 4^th season on blu-ray.  The season story curiously breaks up our group of survivors after their bloody showdown ...

With more corpses buried underneath its streets than there are people currently living above ground, the city of Paris seems like the perfect setting for As Above, So Below, a rambunctious little horror film that hopes to turn the labyrinth of catacombs and tunnels running beneath  ...

Alfred Hitchcock has many classics under his none-too-skinny belt, but arguably none are as universally beloved as the 1954 thriller Rear Window. Based on the short story by writer Cornell Woolrich called ‘It Had to Be Murder’, Hitchcock guided new screenwriter John ...

That one sentence often accompanies many reviews, lists, and assessments about Darryl F. Zanuck’s 1962 epic, honouring of D-Day. Before it had even rolled a frame of film, this film was in trouble. 20^th Century Fox was in financial ruin, thanks to Elizabeth Taylor’s star   ...

Filmmaker Charlie Paul’s documentary For No Good Reason isn’t as sharply focused as it could have been.  Steadman, who famously illustrated Hunter S. Thompson’s most famous works, is a fascinating artist and, as he continues to churn out some seriously  ...

What began as one confident FBI Agent’s routine assignment inside an idyllic seaside town in Maine has now turned into a mission to recover her identity.  Audrey Parker (Emily Rose) is not Audrey Parker.  Or is she?  Part Twin Peaks and part The X-Files, Haven: The ...

Growing up, I never realized that the Toho-helmed Godzilla flicks of the 1970s really had a lot in common with the Roger Moore era of James Bond.  Godzilla vs. Megalon, released last month on blu-ray (but already hard to come by in brick and mortar stores), is proof of ...

What a sad, sad story of one man’s tragic revenge.  Another viewing of Stan Winston’s Pumpkinhead, newly remastered and released from Scream Factory, confirms this for me.  This cult classic and its following seems to get more reputable every single year that passes  ...

While not the massively misaligned train wreck that was TriStar’s Godzilla (circa 1998), Godzilla 2000: Millennium is admittedly a letdown. It is successful in that it returns the series to Japan and gets it back on track but, with huge gaps in logic and a pacing that simply ...

Bonafide folklore and then some; that's the result of Bobcat Goldthwait's first forray into horror.  Willow Creek, writer/director Goldthwait’s latest film, sucker punched me right in gut. I guess I am still affected by these found footage flicks. What he has done here ...

Sony and Toho Productions join forces and bring audiences the trilogy of films that reintroduced the world to Mothra and the tiny singing of Moll and Lora (otherwise known as the Elias Sisters) after a long cinematic draught. Rebirth of Mothra and its two sequels are more   ...

Released in 1984, Charles E. Sellier Jr’s Silent Night, Deadly Night did for Christmas what John Carpenter did for trick or treating: memorialize the day with a seriously twisted flick.  While not as popular as the coveted Halloween franchise, Sellier’s movie definitely does not  ...

Rarely do cinematic miracles like The Battery occur for a mere $6000 and the cost of a butt-load of cigarettes.  The Battery, the directorial debut of Jeremy Gardner might be exactly what the zombie craze needs to keep its forward momentum smelling as fresh as daisies ...

In my younger and more vulnerable years, I mistakenly thought David Lynch’s Eraserhead was a wicked trip through a sort of nightmarish version of an industrial Wonderland without rhyme or reason.  I dismissed it for being surreal without reason and purposeless in its ...