DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

Maniacs on the loose are nothing new.  But watching the actress who once played Erin Walton of The Waltons get it on over and over again with her bleach blonde boyfriend (think Fred from the cartoon Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?) adds a novel dimension to the ...

Hereditary is a movie about secrets and dysfunction as one family’s murky past becomes future tense.  Borne from a tragedy, the film turns into unstoppable nightmare fairly quickly. The faint of heart will shield their eyes as shadows manifest into ghosts and ...

It has been a long time since I have genuinely been frightened by a movie.  Seriously.  I mean, certain ones make me jump from time to time, but, damn, Ghost Stories, starring  Paul Whitehouse, Alex Lawther and Martin Freeman, is one chilling display of spooktacular ...

Gothic gooey gruesomeness prevails the censors! Nashville country legend "Cowboy" Jack Clement might have never produced another feature film, but Dear Dead Delilah, his one and only, is truly unforgettable.  Few, before this Blu-ray release from the fine folks ...

Desolation, thy name is the Midwest…especially during the winter.  Seriously, this place is a freezing ghost land of skulls and souls when the heavy snow begins to fall.  Tree branches snap off.  Fields die.  And the land gets blanketed with thick drifts of snow which makes  ...

ONCE UPON A TIME, there was a limit to the computer’s influence over our lives.  We were suspicious and still lived in a somewhat unconnected world.  That's right, we actually went OUTSIDE. We were a wee bit more suspicious of Artificial Intelligence back then and our ...

Something is in the storm drains again!  A plunger won’t clear it out either.  Afraid of neither man or mutt, what travels through the drainpipes of one idyllic town wants only one thing: a small boy named Chris.  And this foul demon will stop at ...

Director Massimo Dallamano (What Have They Done to Solange?) goes full steam ahead on the whole police procedural effort with his follow-up to the opening bell in his What Have They Done trilogy of films.  He never finished the third film in the proposed series ...

The balls!  Why’d it have to be in the balls?!  With all the hanky panky bouncing around in this sin on skin flick, it seems appropriate that Giallo in Venice begins with an unknown killer striking one poor son of a bitch right in the balls with a sharp knife.  OUCH!  What follows ...

Number Five is alive…and armed to the teeth!  Imagine if the robot in Short Circuit was programmed by the government to wipe out certain members of our society.  Electronic genocide in an easy bake machine!  Now, imagine if that said robot could also rebuild itself and ...

Poor Rachel Foster.  The joint-smoking singer did nothing wrong except witness the brutal execution of a family by one of its members.  BANG! BANG!  And, because it is convenient (being a stranger in a strange county), she pays the ultimate price for the blood spatter ...

Films like William Castle's are sorely missed these days.  Especially when the object of the terror winds its way into a movie theater.  The Tingler is in the audience!  What fun!  Highlighted by a crazy scene in which a mute woman is targeted and nearly tortured in her own ...

This release from Synapse Films of Suspiria is a work of pure art.  It is also important and impactful, belonging in a time capsule AND in your collection of horror titles.  It is, hands down, my pick for the best blu-ray release of the year.  With only 6000 units produced ...

It begins with a whole lot of screaming and that's exactly how it ends, too.  Strait-Jacket is one tense flick.  That's what happens when Joan Crawford is allowed to become all sorts of unhinged with an axe in her hand. ...

Hot rods!  Heatwaves!  Voodoo dolls!  Fish Creatures!  Nubile babes!  And beach parties galore!  And it is all set to the wickedly fresh tunes of The Del-Aires.  Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick, if The Horror of Party Beach isn’t the best campy cult flick to ever hit the sandy shores ...