DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

Three adults stare back at the wrong end of a Colt .45 through much of this classic black-and-white exploitation film from 1963.  The sweltering heat of the summer day has done a number on their car as they travel through California's Antelope Valley, but – more than anything  ...

With cut-off Arabian souvenirs (hands) filling knick-knack shelves and other odd body parts popping up in the background of this twisted take on the submerged and the macabre, Night Tide is more than just an matinee-styled ode to the works of Edgar Allan Poe and gothic-minded ...

Augmenting a person’s DNA with limited technology during the Cold War is probably not the best of ideas.  At least, for this group of soviet superheroes it isn’t.  While it does provide them with extraordinary abilities – like ground and rock manipulation, turning into a werebear ...

Heavy. Metal. Horror.  Rock on! I don’t know about you but a longhaired GIANT zombie, wearing gray sweats and a navy hoodie, stumbling through a recreation center swinging an aluminum bat sounds all sorts of crazy fun to me. The zombie eventually corners the ...

The Russians won the space race with the launch of Sputnik-1.  They quickly followed their success with a bunch of interesting science fiction flicks that caught the eye and interest of famed producer Roger Corman.  Some of these cinematic tales were peace offerings to  ...

Women! Witchcraft! And b-movie maestro Jim Wynorski!  This tightlipped tale has it all. Producer Roger Corman always has been a big fan of Edgar Allan Poe.  Even before he made bank with his Poe pictures featuring Vincent Price, he was often returning to Poe’s ...

Deep in the Louisiana swamps, a strange man tackles a woman – who just stepped out of said swamp – to the ground.  She is killed, marked with a hex symbol, and hung upside down from a cypress tree by her feet.  She is then drained of her blood with a slash to her neck ...

Filmed in less than 30 days, The Lift answers the question that has long plagued mankind.  If a blind man falls down an elevator shaft and no one sees him, does he make a sound when he lands?  Why yes, yes he does.  With a kickass spirit and a merciless kill ratio ...

“You know something, George?  I think we’re dead.”  Some films, no matter when they were made, remain connected with whatever audience comes its way.  Topper, a supernatural comedy directed by Norman Z. McLeod ...

Satanic Scooby Snacks for everyone!!!  Yea!!!! With a tiny church at its center, The Devil’s Rain gets some seriously good notes when it comes to its use of imagery and its overall quick pace.  It is also seriously ...

“I think we’ve all learned a valuable safety tip here!” Darkman II: The Return of Durant shouldn’t exist.  I mean, how Durant survives a viscous bridge-meets-helicopter fiery crash with only a few scratches on his head seems beyond...

The world didn’t need a Darkman trilogy.  We got one, thanks to the Direct-To-Video  route, but both films in the series take our beloved and mostly insane Peyton Westlake down a kinder and gentler path in the narrative department, twisting the first film’s ending to  ...

Rah! Rah! Rah!  Devil worshipping and ice-cold beer makes me want to cheer! First these cheerleaders touch and then they tackle.  These young girls mean business and Hell follows wherever they go, especially when they discover that Satanists in a small town in ...

There’s something really wrong with Mr. Franz (John Hoyt, When Worlds Collide).  He talks to the dolls in his office as if they were real people.  He even dresses them in all the latest fashions.  And what’s with the secret laboratory with the NO ADMITTANCE sign painted ...

Writer/director George A. Romero was so much more than that "zombie dude" with the "big goofy" glasses.  His legacy, stretching across four decades, is as tasty as a celebrated hound of horror’s best slobbered on bone.  From 1968’s Night of the Living Dead to the pre-production done ...