DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

The apocalypse gets Rogenized in this summer’s funniest (and most frightening) stoner comedy.  It’s a movie for anyone who thought Cabin in the Woods was righteous; for anyone who likes to see celebrities take shots – literally in some cases – at themselves; ...

When it comes to intelligence in zombie flicks, World War Z takes the undead crown.  It is indeed a compliment but – in a summer with a dumbed-down Superman as reigning champ of the box office – smarts just might be the film’s downfall.  Director Marc ...

Directed by Terence Fisher, Dracula, Prince of Darkness is Hammer Films' first sequel to 1958's Horror of Dracula to feature the return of Christopher Lee as the Count (who was absent from 1960's Brides of Dracula).  It also marks a sort of crossroads marker for ...

The Dead Walk! With no further explanation than that, writer/director and all around Horror Maestro George A. Romero returns for a third time to the zombie setting he famously started with Night of the Living Dead. This time he takes the genre to Florida where ...

With a series as long-running as Doctor Who, one finds it increasingly rare that there can be anything new offered to fans.  That’s just what The Ice Warriors is though.  Long thought a loss cause for fans and their collections due to the deletion of Episodes Two ...

Who’d have thought it?!  Grimm survived the Friday night kiss of death time slot and NBC’s TV show guillotine.  And it did it with so much fun and style that NBC executives had no choice BUT to embrace the Sean Hayes-produced creature-of-the-week show. Welcome back ...

DC’s animated movie onslaught continues with another adventure from the Man of Steel. This time out, fan favourite Brainiac is headed to earth to procure a city for his shrunken city collection, and then will torpedo the Sun and destroy the Earth. These movies ...

It’s a tough order to do a slasher movie these days and bring anything remotely original to the subgenre after decades and thousands of attempts. Scream tried the self-aware approach to great acclaim, but really, despite all producer rhetoric to the contrary, one ...

Kevin Costner’s highly successful version of the English tale of Robin Hood took much flak for his appalling attempt at a British accent (in those few lines he did actually attempt it). But decades before, Disney released its own version of the hero of Sherwood Forest ...

Writer/Director John Carpenter must really be a miracle worker.  He’s got some serious mojo working in his favor.  Or maybe he’s simply a smarter filmmaker than most give him credit.Other than the late great Howard Hawks, I can think of no other director ...

I wonder if, for filmmakers, there could there be anything more terrifying than helming a sequel to a beloved classic film 22 years after the original.  Or is such a task just plain stupid and flawed from its inception?  What if you could get some of the major ...

Anthony Perkins’ directorial debut arrives with his third appearance as Norman Bates in Psycho III.  While not as sharp as the first sequel to Hitchcock’s classic film, the third in the series proves that sometimes a leaner and meaner attitude is what’s best for a sequel ...

The most successful 3D film of the 1950s has finally arrived on Blu-ray.  André de Toth’s House of Wax brought Warner Bros a lot of fortune and fame during its original run in 1953 but the film is also known for something else: the rebirth of Vincent Price. Yes, there was ...

We've been told to get out already.  Allow me, then, to be the first to welcome you back to 112 Ocean Avenue. Scream Factory’s release of all three original Amityville films is, unquestionably, a must-own for any fan of horror.  Based on a supposed true haunting...

Oh, Poverty Row and its horror show thrills!  The Devil Bat has returned! Starring Bela Lugosi – who was in the middle of a comeback that would soon stall out – The Devil Bat is the ultimate statement concerning the ignored state of horror at the end of the ...