DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

Score another one for the good guys!  Hell Night, being a fun-loving meditation on the very nature of gothic haunts and twisted terror by the man who brought you The Concrete Jungle (which I reviewed just last week), Chatterbox, and Reform School Girls, is finally back ...

“Alright, ladies, from here on out your machete is your best friend.  Keep it clean.  Keep it sharp.  And keep it well oiled.”  With those specific instructions, the burly guards of one sugarcane harvesting prison program in Costa Rica unleash Hell itself by arming the ...

Eurotrash cinema by way of slinky and naked snake handling?  Yummy. If gorgeous and exotic topless women dancing open-mouthed with a damn big snake wrapping around them as an organ soundtrack plays with a chorus of female voices chanting  “Gee-gee-I” turns you on ...

Sick thrills for hotheaded teenagers! The Cuban Missile Crisis!  Bring in the nuked and still marching ants, too!  My God, I love this film.  I, too, have a serious crush on William Castle, the producer the film is based upon.  His independently made horror films, no matter how ...

“Yor’s world!  He’s the man!  Yor’s world!”  With these puzzling lyrics, Oliver Onions, a duo best known for their cheesy soundtrack work, perfectly matches their cosmic melody with a downhill (and hilariously goofy) introduction to our hero.  He’s trying really hard to be all ...

Finally.  With this release from Australian home video company Umbrella Entertainment, a long requested top 10 horror film arrives on blu-ray. Stephen King’s Silver Bullet, starring Gary Busey, Everett McGill, Corey Haim, Anne of Green Gables’ Megan Follows, and LOST’s ...

Holy Frying Felines!  How are YOU going to explain the C-A-T in the rotisserie?  It is, of course, one of my favorite questions in this cat-centered cult classic that Scream Factory puts back into circulation this week.  The bizarre film, with its lurking cats and mysterious music ...

"You have no future," read the signs and flyers populating this flick.  With those words, a whole new world of arm-wrestling, cyborgs, truck drivers, and low-flying helicopter chases over bridges begins.  Hands of Steel goes rogue soon after it begins and concerns itself  ...

Don Johnson has A Boy and His Dog long before there was any idea of Sonny Crockett.  It’s only fair then, in those pre-Miami Vice days, that Philip Michael Thomas had an exploitative cult hit under his no-belted waist, too.  Stigma, a movie that tackles a nasty sexually ...

A killer cult classic gets cleaned up for its HD debut!  And, no, I am not clowning around.  Heh heh. Written and directed by Mark Rosman (The Blue Yonder), The House on Sorority Row is a slasher film about a wicked prank gone horribly wrong ...

Bad acting, bad sex, and organic tea.  Count me in!  What more could five loose women on the run from a prison want on the long and winding road back to the real world?  Violent hippies with awesome moustaches and chains?  Ed Wood in a dual role?  Hell, this ...

His fingers have been eaten away.  He will no longer be able to use them.  Well, that sounds like a challenge to me!  Game on!  Long live the Texas-based American Genre Film Archive as, once again, they make movies fun again! AGFA goes the distance in rescuing director ...

The Italian giallo, my fiends, was still going strong in the 1980s.  Yes, two decades after its debut, the surreal qualities of the sub-genre were still solidly at play in theaters and also still very popular among cult enthusiasts.  Due to the rise of the slasher in America ...

Orgies! Cocaine! A bug-eyed hypnotist!  And women, women, women!  Lucifer's Women is a nutso exploration between evil energy sources as satanic possession makes one woman's skin crawl. ...

I’m not sure anyone should hold a gun to the back of Sid Haig’s legendary bald head.  There’s always Hell to pay later.  Thankfully, the lasers in The Aftermath are not set to stun.  Long neglected, it is now time to welcome a true cult ...