DVD Reviews

Mystic shield! Fireball!  Pulse blast! And some really bad acting!  That’s right, Ouija Shark is back in our world!  The highly-anticipated follow up to the smash cult hit will be available on digital platforms on July 25th from Wild Eye Releasing  ...

Oh, Doctor Young!  Bells will ring!  Rockets will take off!  A kangaroo will play a big brass horn!  That’s what happens when Linda Lovelace (Linda Boreman) finally understands that her clitoris is actually in her mouth and not between her legs.  All these years, she’s been  ...

In cine-massacre history, there are few films that compare to the in-the-gut feeling Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre leaves you with.  Every imperfection in this low-budget Slasher works in the movie’s favor and adds to the overall grisly experience.  The movie is not as violent or as ...

This Roger Corman-produced slasher/comedy was long overdue on blu-ray, but it makes a fairly early 4K release and for all of the right reasons, too. It was originally made in 1982 on a shoestring budget and featured as many boobs as grizzly power-tool murders. Directed by Amy Holden Jones ...

It’s been written that, “the woods are lovely, dark and deep” but are they really?  After watching the opening 10 minutes of Guts On The Chainsaw (with narration from Robert Stone), you’ll be questioning that statement yourself.  After all, according to the movie, there are over 407 open cases  ...

The introduction to this low budget feast tells us all we need to know . . . “The great virus started in 2019. In the first 2 years almost 5 million people died worldwide. In 2022 a new strain hit and 5 million people a month were dying. No vaccine was effective. This created high gas prices, food ...

Exploitation vigilantism never kicked so hard as it does here in the second installment of the Death Wish series.  Newly remastered thanks to the efforts of Vinegar Syndrome and MGM, Death Wish II can now be seen ...

Bubba Ho-Tep and I have finally made up.  I get it.  I finally get why the movie absolutely works and why my punk-ass comments when it was originally released were so naïve.  To borrow a line from Gatsby's Nick Carraway, “in my younger and more vulnerable years” I was a complete tool ...

That lone and long highway.  The flickering camera as it cruises at high speeds on a dark night down it.  The warbling, frenetic sounds as David Bowie softly croons, “I’m Deranged.”  Yes, Lynch’s Lost Highway, and its videotaped while sleeping situation is back and this time it’s challenging ...

The crazy clown mayhem of All Hallows Eve continues! Writer/Director Damien Leone knows how to commit to horror.  I mean, without even batting an eye he serves up a whole platter of gore-iffic deserts, and sure, no one asked for them, but he definitely delivers on the special effects, turning his  ...

Confession time, children! Gather around. Closer, please. I'm going to whisper this to you before I spend an entire review proclaiming why. Here goes: I fucking love Bob Clark ...

Super tongue strikes again! Bob Clark’s Black Christmas is a masterpiece of horror (and humor) that you truly can deck the halls with. There’s no other way to put it. Oh, the print critics had a field day punting it around at the time of its release, but the joke is on them. Its genre legacy speaks  ...

Writer/director Eric Swelstad (The Curse of Lizzie Borden 2: Prom Night, Too Good to Be True) deserved better with his small town satanic panic flick, Heartland of Darkness.  The film, also referred to as both Fallen Angels and Blood Church, works like gangbusters and delivers  ...

The Women-in-Prison genre of exploitation film is definitely not dead. It just needs some much needed resuscitation from brave filmmakers who aren’t afraid to exploit - what Roger Corman did in the late 60s (when the Hays Code was finally put to rest) - moral guidance. Anything for a shot of  ...

A vampire murder mystery? Sure! Why not? So, the intentions of this movie are perhaps a bit unclear. You have the famed director of Dracula, Tod Browning, teaming up with the man who is the embodiment of the world’s most famous vampire, Bela Lugosi, for a…non-Dracula vampire ...

Even if you don't believe in vampires, sucking your way though town just got a hell of a lot classier. When you are 17-years-old, condoms aren’t the only protection needed when attempting to survive a ...

Greetings, Starfighter!  Arrow Video invited you to watch this 1984 science fiction classic in a way never before thought possible.  With a newly restored 4k scan of the original negative and the 4.1 sound mix originally created for the 70mm release, The Last Starfighter returns to your living   ...

The Dead live ... again! There’s no denying that Criterion’s handling of writer/director George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead just might be the most important blu-ray release of the year ...

The Dead live ... again! This time in Ultra 4K, thanks to the Criterion Collection. This release includes a 4K digital restoration, supervised by director George A. Romero, "Night of Anubis," a work-print edit of the film, and two audio commentaries featuring Romero, the film's producer and  ...

Shot on video and completely off its rocker as it relishes in its super low, low, low budget with early CGI effects thanks to Rob Neep, Blood of the Chupacabras begins with a disclaimer about the very existence of the creature at the center of this bloodbath and then, after a mother kicks some kids  ...

Holy chainsaws and creepy crawlies, dudes and dudettes! Pine Hills Summer Camp is open once again! I can think of nothing better to do with your time this Halloween season than spending it with this glorious, B-movie embracing creature feature The feisty fun never stops thanks to ...

Shot on Video, tape warts, print noise, and all, Slaughter Day is a most ambitious horror from the days of fuzzy definition and red bandanas. It is both fun and thrilling with some off-the-wall POV shots as Blake and Jonah, played by real life twins Blake (Rising Dead, Who Saw the Men in  ...

Fresh from the success of 1978’s Halloween, director John Carpenter returns to horror and its star Jamie Lee Curtis for his follow-up feature film. The Fog is a supernatural horror flick that is heavy on atmosphere and creativity and, in spite of its age, its creepy vibe and physical make-up effects  ...

Sometimes box office bombs deliver payloads years after their release.  Scream Factory, releasing Space Truckers on blu-ray with new featurettes, know this and offer audiences another chance to hitchhike alongside Dennis Hopper, Debi Mazar, and Stephen Dorff as they seek an astronomical  ...

Visual Vengeance and Wild Eye Releasing have STUCK IT again with the release of L.A. AIDS Jabber, a shot on video horror flick which is a bit more serious than it lets on to be. Oh, and don’t worry, that taste in your mouth for even considering this title washes away quite easily, especially when  ...

Bloody Muscle Bodybuilder in Hell is one wild ride through independent trash cinema. It is ugly and brutal, plunging sharpened knives deep into the necks of its audience from the very beginning and begging us to look away. We don’t, though. Gorehounds never do, which is why watching the main  ...

Rude and crude, The Necro Files have been opened! Ready to do the Devil’s work? Wild Eye Releasing and Visual Vengeance are as The Necro Files, a satanic shot on video nudie-fest from 1997, gets its blu-ray debut. I mean, sure, these films are horrible looking and full of horrible content, but what blu-ray do you know rewards viewers with their very own condom? That’s right. This is probably the only one with that surprise inside ...

Famed writer/director/producer Roger Corman is not one to let a trend pass without notice and monetary capitalization. Still looking to mine the Star Wars vein of golden riches and fortune and glory in 2980, he mounted his most expensive production and put together a creative team (which included  ...

Writer/director Neil Marshall doesn’t always get the respect he so admirably deserves. It seems that Hollywood has put all their eggs in Neill Blomkamp’s basket. Marshall, who has yet to fail my expectations, continues to deliver behind the scenes in Game of Thrones but to truly appreciate  ...

Suburban Sasquatch is what happens when a nubile Native American on her vision quest, a budding reporter, and some dimwitted cops join forces in order to stop the rampage of a bloodthirsty bigfoot in a local park. Suburban Sasquatch is completely ridiculous, over the top, and so unbelievably  ...