DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

Talk about blonde ambition.  It’s the lead female who does all the hard work in this thriller.  Well, that might not be so shocking for anyone living out on the west coast ...

Because even a natural born talent as wicked smart as Stanley "Stan" Winston’s has to start somewhere.  That’s why this drive-in flick, originally distributed by American International Pictures, continues to be resurrected from time to time. ...

Or when B-movies, that don't realize they are one, attack!!! was a year out of high school when Species was originally released.  In the years since originally watching it, all I could remember of the movie was that Model-turned-actress Natasha Henstridge definitely knew ...

Holy Hell!  The St. Agnes church is cursed.  It was Father Dennis who fell first.  The second, Father Collins, got his throat ripped out right after burying his shiny head into a pair of magnificent bare breasts.  Let’s hear it for redheads! ...

Star Crystal, with its point of origin stemming from the bad end of 1986, is as useful as liquid flatulence.  If this is what happens in 2035 on the surface of Mars, then I hope I’m long gone.  Because I. Just. Can’t. ...

Holy Smokes, does The Man from the Planet X ever rock!  This drive-in cult classic is a solid slice of gooey space age silliness and yet its unsettling ending suggests so much more…

Lesbians in space!  Well, maybe, I mean – at least – the women do a lot of talking about it.  So, yeah, Star Slammer (aka Prison Ship) definitely teases zero gravity space sex with the nastiest of Hollywood Hookers.  Unfortunately (or...), it can only deliver on hokey hip-shaking ...

It’s not everyday that you find a severed head floating in the pool of water you just splashed on your face.  Cue the shrieks and screams because there’s no safe way back home after trespassing onto the mysterious island of this rich man’s daughter.  She’s hiding someone ...

I originally saw this b-movie under the creepy title of Cemetery Girls.  And, yes, there are quite a few girls in it – Karen (Kaydee Politoff), Senta (Rosanna Yanni), Marlene (Ingrid Garbo), and Elke (Mirta Miller) – that Dracula gets to “taste” as they succumb to their new roles as his ...

Writer/director/actor/producer Larry Fessenden is still a dark apocalyptic mystery to me and, if I am being honest, I appreciate him for that.  He’s an artist who prefers to work outside of the studio system.  His films are personal and deeply moving; they also deserve a far wider ...

With more tits and ass than actual plot, Hollywood Boulevard is probably one of producer Roger Corman’s goofiest films.  We know it was his cheapest.  That was the agreement made when (then) editors Joe Dante and Allan Arkush presented him with their idea for a movie to  ...

If there’s one thing striking about Being Different, it’s the sheer amount of compassion that it presents viewers with concerning its primary subjects.  The documentary might be about bearded women, legless men, and long distance runners with no feet, but there’s no cruelty ...

There’s a cave in the dense forest at the center of this movie.   A deep, dark hole where a man in a shirt and ripped pants, baseball hat and all, looking very much like a truck driver, sits … IN A ROCKING CHAIR.  There’s a campfire next to him.  He’s been eating something. Well  ...

Because there is an art to murder. That’s why the films of Dario Argento continue to register with audiences. His films – no matter how brutal or kitschy – are beautiful portraits of horrible things. To merely describe one of the director’s films does so much of what he is capable ...

Writer/director Charles B. Pierce (The Town that Dreaded Sundown, The Legend of Boggy Creek) really likes small town horror.  I don’t disagree with his tastes either.  I live in a small town – with no local police department – and, let me tell you, some of my neighbors, well  ...