DVD Reviews

The chugging guitars.  The angsty teen, Vince (Johnny Venocur), being reminded of his curfew.  And then the silence.  For a few brief seconds, the chaos of these Savage Streets dies away . . . and then it absolutely EXPLODES.  The teenager shrugs off his parents ...

Meteor shit!  Fuck-a-diddle!  Loaded with highly quotable lines and scary-ass scenes full of corpses and maggots as fathers come back from the dead, the titanic team-up of writer Stephen King and director George A. Romero was no fluke.  It still isn't.  In fact, at the time of  ...

The gore!  The women!  The style!  The masterpiece that is Blood and Black Lace is now on blu-ray thanks to VCI Home Entertainment and their stunning BRAND NEW 2K restoration from the original film negative. ...

There is a chill to the proceedings of The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre that, thanks to a series of interesting shots and edits, bring a sense of dreadful beauty to the sight of a car going over a cliff as its driver falls along with those spinning four wheels and crashes below ...

Clean shirt, short hair, tie, pressed trousers, sports jacket or suit, and leather shoes, preferably with a high shine on them.  That’s what Sgt. Joe Friday (Dan Aykroyd) expects from his new partner, Pep Streebeck (Tom Hanks).  What he gets, though, is a wise-cracking ...

A camp classic, deserving of every ounce of praise it has earned over its lifetime, gets a new 2K scan from the best surviving print thanks to Shout! Factory.  The Wasp Woman, written by longtime Roger Corman contributor Leo Gordon (writer of The Terror and Tower of  ...

Greetings from San Fernando Valley!  The Val.  The “normies” live here, you know.  With no edge in sight and none of its history of display, people on the other side of the Hollywood sign just don’t appreciate the pink-clad urbanization of what used to be a thriving rural community  ...

It was wise to delay the Blu-ray debut of this movie.  Good move, Sony.  They were counting on all of us to forget just how awfully Slender Man was received when it was originally released in early August.  In and out of theaters it went, leaving faster than a man after hearing  ...

The murder mystery format turns sleazy in this exploitation offering from genre-hopping director Sergio Martino.  Rescued from obscurity by Arrow Video, this violent and messy affair is all sorts of fun in that exploitative way that makes horror hounds and gore-gore ...

Provocative and psychological, this movie, featuring a brand new restoration from a 4K scan of the original negative by Arrow Video, is an incredible statement on the beauty of film as an art form. It is directed by a visual master of the macabre and, unrestrained with astounding ...

Grateful Dead.  Janis Joplin.  The Band.  Buddy Guy.  What do they all have in common?  Well, other than being fantastic rock bands, artists, and live performers, they once upon a time in 1970 shared the same train as it traveled through Canada and played a series of  ...

“To the Argonautica!  May the good times last forever!”  It is with those words that we know the maiden voyage of this luxury cruise ship is doomed.  What starts as a swanky party turns right deadly.  The shindig barely starts before people get yanked down  ...

I don’t know how it happened and I certainly don’t remember why.  The discovery of The Witching Season was completely accidental on my part.  One YouTube video after another – down the rabbit hole, you know – and then, rather suddenly, I found myself in the ...

Maniacs on the loose are nothing new.  But watching the actress who once played Erin Walton of The Waltons get it on over and over again with her bleach blonde boyfriend (think Fred from the cartoon Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?) adds a novel dimension to the ...

Hereditary is a movie about secrets and dysfunction as one family’s murky past becomes future tense.  Borne from a tragedy, the film turns into unstoppable nightmare fairly quickly. The faint of heart will shield their eyes as shadows manifest into ghosts and ...

It has been a long time since I have genuinely been frightened by a movie.  Seriously.  I mean, certain ones make me jump from time to time, but, damn, Ghost Stories, starring  Paul Whitehouse, Alex Lawther and Martin Freeman, is one chilling display of spooktacular ...

Gothic gooey gruesomeness prevails the censors! Nashville country legend "Cowboy" Jack Clement might have never produced another feature film, but Dear Dead Delilah, his one and only, is truly unforgettable.  Few, before this Blu-ray release from the fine folks ...

Desolation, thy name is the Midwest…especially during the winter.  Seriously, this place is a freezing ghost land of skulls and souls when the heavy snow begins to fall.  Tree branches snap off.  Fields die.  And the land gets blanketed with thick drifts of snow which makes  ...

ONCE UPON A TIME, there was a limit to the computer’s influence over our lives.  We were suspicious and still lived in a somewhat unconnected world.  That's right, we actually went OUTSIDE. We were a wee bit more suspicious of Artificial Intelligence back then and our ...

Something is in the storm drains again!  A plunger won’t clear it out either.  Afraid of neither man or mutt, what travels through the drainpipes of one idyllic town wants only one thing: a small boy named Chris.  And this foul demon will stop at ...

Director Massimo Dallamano (What Have They Done to Solange?) goes full steam ahead on the whole police procedural effort with his follow-up to the opening bell in his What Have They Done trilogy of films.  He never finished the third film in the proposed series ...

The balls!  Why’d it have to be in the balls?!  With all the hanky panky bouncing around in this sin on skin flick, it seems appropriate that Giallo in Venice begins with an unknown killer striking one poor son of a bitch right in the balls with a sharp knife.  OUCH!  What follows ...

Number Five is alive…and armed to the teeth!  Imagine if the robot in Short Circuit was programmed by the government to wipe out certain members of our society.  Electronic genocide in an easy bake machine!  Now, imagine if that said robot could also rebuild itself and ...

Poor Rachel Foster.  The joint-smoking singer did nothing wrong except witness the brutal execution of a family by one of its members.  BANG! BANG!  And, because it is convenient (being a stranger in a strange county), she pays the ultimate price for the blood spatter ...

Films like William Castle's are sorely missed these days.  Especially when the object of the terror winds its way into a movie theater.  The Tingler is in the audience!  What fun!  Highlighted by a crazy scene in which a mute woman is targeted and nearly tortured in her own ...

This release from Synapse Films of Suspiria is a work of pure art.  It is also important and impactful, belonging in a time capsule AND in your collection of horror titles.  It is, hands down, my pick for the best blu-ray release of the year.  With only 6000 units produced ...

It begins with a whole lot of screaming and that's exactly how it ends, too.  Strait-Jacket is one tense flick.  That's what happens when Joan Crawford is allowed to become all sorts of unhinged with an axe in her hand. ...

Hot rods!  Heatwaves!  Voodoo dolls!  Fish Creatures!  Nubile babes!  And beach parties galore!  And it is all set to the wickedly fresh tunes of The Del-Aires.  Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick, if The Horror of Party Beach isn’t the best campy cult flick to ever hit the sandy shores ...

Get the beer ready.  You’re going to need it for this goofy (and gross!) after-birth of a horror flick. The Unborn is a horror film allowed to go full-on gonzo with its killer baby motif as Brook Adams (Invasion of the Body Snatchers) discovers that the child growing inside of her is actually a ...

In which satire turns to the slasher genre as its next pulpy target. You get your invite to the party of … three years ago?  I hope so because someone killed all the beer!!!!!!  ...