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Operating along the same guidelines as a raging bull in a china shop, James Roday’s directorial-debut Gravy, now appreciating a solid release on blu-ray thanks to Scream! Factory, is a gonzo-spirited horror-comedy that definitely does not disappoint. This freewheeling comedy ...
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Riddle me this. Besides being movies I like, what do Evil Dead II, Moontrap, Army of Darkness and John Woo's Hard Target all have in common? It's not Bruce Campbell. It's the not the splatterific amount of gore either...but close. It's special effects artist Gary Jones ...
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I have to say that in the vampire category of horror flicks there are very few I find to be actually worthy of a true scare. The Return of Count Yorga is one of those. This new age take on sunny Californian vampirism succeeds where the original near skinflick, Count Yorga ...
Read more: The Return of Count Yorga (1971) - Blu-ray Review
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Swiping its title from an Edgar Allan Poe short story, The Oblong Box is American International Pictures’ answer to life after Roger Corman, who stopped his Poe & Price AIP film cycle in 1965. This time, Gordon Hessler (The Golden Voyage of Sinbad), takes his first step behind ...
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Billy Zane. Billy Zane. Billy “You fucking ho-dunk, po-dunk, well then there motherfuckers!” Zane. Demon Knight, the first “Tales from the Crypt” movie, finally arrives on a newly minted HD transfer thanks to the Horror Hounds at Scream Factory, an imprint of Shout Factory ...
Read more: Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight (1995) - Blu-ray Review
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Five men board a train. They don’t know each other. They hardly acknowledge one another until a sixth joins them in the same small compartment. Little do they know that their final destination is linked together by this mysterious figure and the tarot cards he carries with ...
Read more: Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965) - Blu-ray Review
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While considered a rather weak film serial when compared to other flicks of the era, Flying Disc Man from Mars – a 12-part science fiction offering from Republic – is a solid example of just how silly and fun the format was for moviegoers. Olive Films, who released The Invisible ...
Read more: Flying Disc Man from Mars (1950) - Blu-ray Review
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Genre fans rejoice! The creature feature B-movie category just got a brand spankin’ new addition to its roster of gore, charm, and cheese. Stung, directed by Benni Diez, is just the type of garden party turned story of survival you’ve been waiting for. Full of genetically-mutated ...
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Bruce Dern attaching two heads to a monkey. Hell, Dern attaching two heads to anything!!! If that image doesn’t get you excited for a schlock film full of nastiness, then I doubt little else will. You should probably stop reading and click somewhere else. Still here? Okay ...
Read more: The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant (1971) - Blu-ray Review
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It's a Wonderful Life’s Gloria Grahame and Len Lesser (ya know, Uncle Leo from Seinfeld), make a deadly duo in Philip Gilbert’s Blood and Lace. Written and co-produced by Gil Lasky (The Night God Screamed), the slasher flick is a wannabe skin flick that teases its sleaze ...
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...because little kids really can be this terrible! The horror/comedy hybrid is a really weird and tricky sub-genre to tackle as a writer. Everything has to hit in such a manner that it satisfies both genre devotees just right. Leave it then to one of Glee’s creators, Ian Brennan, and ...
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Bela Lugosi. George Zucco. John Carradine. Why wouldn’t a Horror Hound NOT want to check out director William Beaudine’s Voodoo Man? Of course, there are plenty of things wrong with this unintentionally campy horror flick BUT it’s all so perfectly harmless that ...
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It was only a matter of time. Poe couldn’t be the sole horror author to get ALL the attention from the cinema. And so, when it came to a new round of anthology items to consider, Vincent Price found himself caught inside the pages of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Gothicism ...
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When you get to a B-movie as aptly titled as The Brain that Wouldn’t Die, you – of course – have to embrace disbelief with open arms. If you do, you won’t exactly be disappointed with the results as one doctor refuses to give up on his girlfriend and decides to attach her ...
Read more: The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962) - Blu-ray Review
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James Brolin. A demonic car. Some Native American warnings. And the arid American desert. What else do you need to have one helluva damn good time? Nothing. And that's exactly the territory of The Car, a horror film that owes its inception to the success of Jaws. Directed by ...
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