DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

Marvel’s Green Goblin mask on the grate of the black Western Star semi-truck; that is one key memory I have of Vestron Video Collector’s Series latest release.  A steamroller without a driver crushing the body and skull of a little league baseball player is another.  Wilmington,  ...

This is a low budget horror/comedy in which an exorcism is performed on a motorcycle.  If you are already groaning, stop reading.  The shit isn’t going to get any better for you. Still here?  Good.  Allow me to continue ...

The chugging guitars.  The angsty teen, Vince (Johnny Venocur), being reminded of his curfew.  And then the silence.  For a few brief seconds, the chaos of these Savage Streets dies away . . . and then it absolutely EXPLODES.  The teenager shrugs off his parents ...

Meteor shit!  Fuck-a-diddle!  Loaded with highly quotable lines and scary-ass scenes full of corpses and maggots as fathers come back from the dead, the titanic team-up of writer Stephen King and director George A. Romero was no fluke.  It still isn't.  In fact, at the time of  ...

The gore!  The women!  The style!  The masterpiece that is Blood and Black Lace is now on blu-ray thanks to VCI Home Entertainment and their stunning BRAND NEW 2K restoration from the original film negative. ...

There is a chill to the proceedings of The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre that, thanks to a series of interesting shots and edits, bring a sense of dreadful beauty to the sight of a car going over a cliff as its driver falls along with those spinning four wheels and crashes below ...

Clean shirt, short hair, tie, pressed trousers, sports jacket or suit, and leather shoes, preferably with a high shine on them.  That’s what Sgt. Joe Friday (Dan Aykroyd) expects from his new partner, Pep Streebeck (Tom Hanks).  What he gets, though, is a wise-cracking ...

A camp classic, deserving of every ounce of praise it has earned over its lifetime, gets a new 2K scan from the best surviving print thanks to Shout! Factory.  The Wasp Woman, written by longtime Roger Corman contributor Leo Gordon (writer of The Terror and Tower of  ...

Greetings from San Fernando Valley!  The Val.  The “normies” live here, you know.  With no edge in sight and none of its history of display, people on the other side of the Hollywood sign just don’t appreciate the pink-clad urbanization of what used to be a thriving rural community  ...

It was wise to delay the Blu-ray debut of this movie.  Good move, Sony.  They were counting on all of us to forget just how awfully Slender Man was received when it was originally released in early August.  In and out of theaters it went, leaving faster than a man after hearing  ...

The murder mystery format turns sleazy in this exploitation offering from genre-hopping director Sergio Martino.  Rescued from obscurity by Arrow Video, this violent and messy affair is all sorts of fun in that exploitative way that makes horror hounds and gore-gore ...

Provocative and psychological, this movie, featuring a brand new restoration from a 4K scan of the original negative by Arrow Video, is an incredible statement on the beauty of film as an art form. It is directed by a visual master of the macabre and, unrestrained with astounding ...

Grateful Dead.  Janis Joplin.  The Band.  Buddy Guy.  What do they all have in common?  Well, other than being fantastic rock bands, artists, and live performers, they once upon a time in 1970 shared the same train as it traveled through Canada and played a series of  ...

“To the Argonautica!  May the good times last forever!”  It is with those words that we know the maiden voyage of this luxury cruise ship is doomed.  What starts as a swanky party turns right deadly.  The shindig barely starts before people get yanked down  ...

I don’t know how it happened and I certainly don’t remember why.  The discovery of The Witching Season was completely accidental on my part.  One YouTube video after another – down the rabbit hole, you know – and then, rather suddenly, I found myself in the ...