DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

Get those squirt guns loaded, Freaks and Geeks! There are nuclear age creatures living below San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.  These psychotic dudes are fierce, too.  When not munching on oversexed teenagers, they eat pigeons and are armed to the teeth ...

Where’s Sweetback?  He started from the bottom now he's here, man. I t is a movie made for the cool in you. Yes, Babyface, I am copping that title as well for this review. You see, this landmark movie, written, co-produced, scored, edited, directed ...

Because a life on the run is never that much fun! America loves its guns. It is possible that this film noir classic, featuring a bevy of fascinating performances, best explains why. The power they wield is an attraction that cannot be matched. Bang, bang, ...

“Damn. That incidental music is scary!” They are baaaaack! Writer/director Glen Coburn’s creature feature remains a B-grade classic of camp and horror. Vinegar Syndrome gloriously embraces the return of these Bloodsuckers from Outer Space! Chainsaw beheadings never looked this good! ...

“Darling, I’m home!” A child’s birthday should be a special occasion. Full of balloons, kazoos, and party hats, there ought to be smiles on every child in attendance…especially when the cak guye is being presented. The obligatory birthday song follows. And then, as the ...

Sickly sweet trashterpieces made for Gore-Gore Gorillas and Horror Hounds are rarely this good. We tend to like them because we laugh at them and understand the humor involved; some of us appreciate the lo-fi vibe of such DIY efforts. Others just dig the grit and ...

"You move me, Sail, you really do. You mark me the deepest," says Laura Dern as Lula to Nicolas Cage. It is a haunting moment in an equally haunting tale that features an unforgetable Willem Dafoe as an accident prone bank robber, a blonde-haired Isabella Rossellini ...

Nipples. Why’d it have to be nipples? From the very beginning of this Italian sexploitation-cannibal flick, nipples are the target. They don’t stop being one either. Of course, that’s after a flaccid penis has been hacked off and fed to a bunch of cannibals. Nom nom nom. ...

Six people. One house. Sex at the drop of a hat. What could go wrong?! Oh, what a web we weave when we cannot leave! Director Stefanie Rothman (The Working Girls) returns to the arena of the sex comedy with a very hilarious romp in which twosomes become threesomes ...

Bigheaded mutant babies that kill? Forget the toys and balloons. We need guns! Filmmaker Larry Cohen is one hell of a writer. Sure, at the height of his career, he was crafting low budget exploitation tales but, for the most part, his work was ...

Against the Ninja! Let me see those hands in the air! Miami Connection is on blu-ray! Watching a movie as gonzo as Miami Connection, it’s seriously great, helps one understand just how incredibly awesome the 1980s were when it came to moviemaking and...

“Peter! He’s alive!” With that sentence, one surgeon’s ugly truth is revealed. Killer psychotics dressed in white, yes, this thriller is a bit twisted but then what else could you expect from the team behind The Boy Who Cried Werewolf and The Snake Woman? A straight edged  ...

It. Has. Arrived. Science Fiction comic book comedies rarely get this good. Can a plant also be a boyfriend? If the girl is a vegetarian, then yes.  Over the top. Absurd. And EXACTLY what I want in a Swamp Thing movie. This is indeed The Return of Swamp Thing and it arrives ...

Kiddos, when it comes to moviemaking, films RARELY get this ambitious. Primal Scream is what happens when Dashiell Hammett and Arthur C. Clarke get together, smoke a little weed, and decide to make a movie. Outside of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, there is ...

Because Speckled Sussex’s never looked this good before.  That's why. “Hey, Betty, you better get cleaned up. That isn’t exactly perfume you are covered with.” That’s what a newly transported city dweller  ...