DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

The odds were not in Easy Rider's favor. Coming off of Roger Corman's The Wild Angels and the Jack Nicholson-penned The Trip, Peter Fonda was digging his heels into the counterculture scene. He and wild man Dennis Hopper, driven to tell another tale of  ...

Written and directed by Larry Cohen (The Stuff), Black Caesar is essentially a remake of 1931’s Little Caesar with Edward G. Robinson.  To its credit; however, Cohen’s film has enough stylized action and Harlem locale in it to make it stand out and far, far apart from the  ...

Barry Shear's Across 110th Street remains a hard-hitting look at racial violence in the streets of New York City. Loaded with hundreds of F-bombs, there's no denying its visceral power and, while the film gets lumped in with a lot of other Blaxploitation flicks from the era, the  ...

Anyone's education in cinema involves stopping for a spell in New York City. While you are there, though, be sure to not skip out on the knowledge that can be gained by watching 1970's fascinating Cotton Comes to Harlem.  ...

Oliver Reed.  George Kennedy.  Jose Ferre.  And action movie regular Brian Thompson (otherwise known as the alien bounty hunter in The X-Files).  What movie could possibly bring them together?  And for what reason?  Other than probably being unemployed at  ...

When it comes to directing1970s fantasy/adventure films, Kevin Connor is definitely one of the genre’s mad geniuses.  After showing a very versatile set of skills in bringing dinosaurs back to life with aplomb in The Land that Time Forgot, he flexed hardcore alongside returning ...

Blood Bath is one of Roger Corman’s wildest endeavors.  I dare suggest that the history of the movie is probably far more interesting and unpredictable than the movie itself.  Well, to be exact, Blood Bath, having started its life in 1962 and finally released in 1966, is actually  ...

Comedian Rudy Ray Moore returns just in the nick of time to save all the fine ladies from racist cops and bad attitudes everywhere.  This time – one year after his original outing – his mission against The Man stretches all the way from rural Alabama to Los Angeles  ...

I’m killing you…with my mind!  This is the mad premise of character actor Ray Danton’s Psychic Killer.  Released in 1975, the B-movie is probably still known among certain groups due to the simple fact that, despite a shocking amount of blood and a “boobalicious”  ...

There are few things as terrifying to me then to be trapped on a school bus with a bunch of High School jocks.  Talk about a total freak-out of testosterone, sweaty gym bags, and meat hooks.  This is the territory exploited by Jeepers Creepers 2, now ...

One would have to dig clear through the classic era of Universal Monster Movies in order to find a title that is a Jeepers Creepers equivalent in tone, structure, and suspense.  And that’s a good thing.  Writer/director Victor Salva explores his love of classic creature features  ...

Ray Harryhausen’s stop-motion work in Mysterious Island is the stuff of legend AND nightmares.  Featuring memorable attacks from a gigantic crab, an oversized bee, a large prehistoric bird, and an angry snail, the fantasy kept many a young person up at night.  It also  ...

I freakin’ love The Alien Factor.  Filmed in Baltimore, Maryland by a bunch of freaks and geeks, the schlocky film is a throwback to the classic run of 1950’s creature features and has just the right amount of humor and gore to make it worth revisiting time and time again  ...

For anyone who hates on exploitation film auteur Jack Hill’s The Swinging Cheerleaders for its objectification of women – namely cheerleaders – there’s a need for a brief lesson in film and cultural history.  Made during the 1970s, Hill’s movie was a very tough and very real examination of powerful  ...

There is something incredibly haunting about Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s feature-length debut.  Shot in black-and-white and filmed in and around the Phoenix area, Suture is a neo-film noir examination into a person’s identity.  What makes a person know themselves?  ...