DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

For the longest time, the Halloween franchise has been “the toppermost of the poppermost” for me.  Nothing was more frightening than the bogeyman that Michael Myers was made to be.  Well, that was then and people, as they are wont to do, can change their minds ...

If the symbolism in this independent horror film doesn’t stitch the fear of the Goddess right onto your supple flesh then there’s little hope for the everlasting soul that your skin shields. Dark Waters is intense.  The art-house horror in this Nunsploitation masterpiece about ...

“The genitals are the door to evil! The vagina, the uterus, the womb; the labyrinth that leads to hell; the devil’s tools!” Father, please forgive me.  I have sinned and actually enjoyed a nunploitation flick last night.  I know I am not supposed to (just like I know I’m not ...

In which the real monsters are revealed to be us, brothers and sisters.  Welcome to Hell, motherfuckers! My friends and I often have conversations about the horror movies released during the 1990s and what is so painfully wrong with most of them.  And then we get to ...

“Sometimes I dare death to try to catch me.  Grab me.  Ya know what I mean,” confesses a stuntman named B.J. (James Stacy).  B.J., who lost his arm and leg on the left side of his body (along with his wife) after an unfortunate car crash, is just one of the many interesting ...

Being the obstinate fool that I am, I have had many run-ins with local law enforcers.  I just can’t help myself.  Most of them – mustached or not – have been surprisingly accommodating, using zip ties instead of handcuffs and so on.  Of course, there’s always that asshole ...

About twenty minutes into The Mephisto Waltz all hell breaks loose when a costume party literally goes to the dogs.  With a human mask securely fastened to its head, a black dog strolls into the room.  Don’t adjust the picture.  Yes, even the canines are into the devil’s work ...

Remember that time when famed Italian director Mario Bava co-directed a wacky tale of science fiction terror about a Mayan blob that tormented some researchers in Mexico?  What’s that?  You don’t remember Caltiki, the Immortal Monster or the pool of gold- ...

This film might kill you.  Honestly, truer words have seldom been spoken.  The banging window.  The knocking on the door.  Don’t investigate it, Jenni (Peggy Webber), just leave it alone.  Webber could be your plainspoken Auntie, folks, and you definitely don’t want anything ...

Vampire bat blood in pill form.  Taken three times a day, it guarantees a high that will leave you long in the tooth. Picture it.  A domestic scene.  A doctor, a little freaked by what he may or not have taken, confronts his young daughter.  "What the hell are these,"  ...

The films in the collection might be at random and, as a result, it might be incomplete but Shout Factory’s release of The Vincent Price Collection is truly something any fan of classic horror can celebrate with cake, decorations, and nonstop parties this Halloween season ...

Writer, director, producer Roger Corman, the celebrated King of the B-movie, has very rarely let me down as a member of his audience.  I found his book, How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime, to be a sort of oracle guiding me across the California   ...

It. Has. Arrived. Plan 9 from Outer Space is believed to be the worst movie of all time.  It was originally made in 1959, long before the days of M. Night’s The Happening or The Last Airbender which are examples of the worst movies ever made ...

Holy shit!  Tree roots from Hell!!  Edited together in such a way to kill any sense of forward momentum, the sheer lunacy of Contamination .7 (also released as The Crawlers, Troll 3, and almost any other title imaginable) makes this release from Scream Factory  ...

“I’m the red queen.  She’s the black queen,” chants Kitty’s sister, Evelyn.  The two siblings have grown up raised by their grandfather.  The family mansion has been their playground, but the two sisters have always been fighting.  His stories have often revolved around ...