DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

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 first scene of Hateship Loveship sets the tone of this quirky indie drama, starring Kristen Wiig. Main character Johanna Parry (Wiig) attends to a sickly old woman in bed. “I’d like to wear my blue dress,” the woman says. When Johanna returns to the room, the elderly  ...

According to Warner Bros, the “scream” always rises to the top and, with release of this 6-disc set, the evil has arrived.  Or was it always here?  Warner Bros unleashes The Exorcist: The Complete Anthology to a public always hungry for more demonic possession  ...

It is a movie that still doesn’t have the audience it deserves.  Krull, a gorgeously mounted fantasy film from 1983, continues to live on in spite of the massive ignorance surrounding it.  Director Peter Yates’ broke the Joseph Campbell mythology and saddled it with  ...

The genius of Peter Sellers is that he can, in fact, carry an entire picture by saying very little. Just watching him “become” is the joy. Whether he is playing Chance the Gardner in Being There or Dr. Strangelove, the wheelchair-bound nuclear war expert and former Nazi, who ...

Santos Alcocer’s Cauldron of Blood is such a weird film. After simmering in its own juices for three years after its completion, this bizarre tale about a blind sculptor named Badulescu who uses the bones of murdered women for his art finally saw the light of day. It was 1970  ...

At long last. Every icon deserves a sequel.  Scream Factory’s excellent treatment of the horror films of Vincent Price is continued in another 7-film second serving.  The films in this treasured collection - The Raven, The Comedy of Terrors, The Tomb of Ligeia, The Last Man On Earth, Dr. Phibes ...

If one worm can’t kill you, maybe 100,000 could. Writer/director Jeff Lierberman’s Squirm takes a closer look at our fish bait and turns those harmless, wriggling little creatures into mean-spirited suckers with mutated mouth-parts capable of rending flesh from bone thanks to a  ...

The forefather of Italian Horror Cinema reanimates the dead … in outer space.  Mario Brava’s Planet of the Vampires is not a cinematic masterpiece.  It is; however, one of the most influential of narratives ever produced, introducing some timeless sci-fi tropes and is a   ...

“Whoa.  Free toy inside!  Free toy inside!” Do I have your attention Cult of UHF?  Because the blu-ray you want and need has just been released. "Weird Al" Yankovic, the reigning king of pop song parody, once took on Hollywood with his gift of satirical gab. It was ...

In 1965, rebel American director Monte Hellman (Two-Lane Blacktop) conceived of two westerns and decided to film them back-to-back in the Utah desert.  Surreal and gritty, these two westerns would prove Hellman’s skill at brilliantly analyzing the genre.  Shot for famed  ...

Inspired by writer/director/producer and all around film icon Roger Corman, Stuart Gordon – the director of From Beyond and Re-Animator – decided to film another script while he still had the use of a large Italian studio space.  Dolls, about a group of possessed toys  ...

“This stuff is way beyond Ouija boards, you guys.” Do we need to ask why?  Someone somewhere at MGM couldn’t leave well enough alone and that’s the only answer you’ll get.  Of course, Pumpkinhead has to return and, of course, an irritating group of teenagers ...

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is the tale of a madman told through the eyes of another madman; a film so daunting it’s horrifying. Yes, here it is: the very first horror film and still its influence is felt. There is no argument there. It is also, with its exaggerated backgrounds and sharp  ...

There are little things more unsettling than zombie Nazis rising from calm waters somewhere off the coast of Florida. These top secret storm troopers cannot be stopped once they’ve risen from the depths of Hell’s ocean. Shock Waves, one of the handful of "sleeper"  ...