DVD Reviews

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 ...

Damn you, Trioxin 245!  I mean, seriously, again!?!?!?  Four years later, did we need a sequel to the original spoof?  Maybe not.  But it's hella fun to think we did!!! ...

The basement.  It is the place of unspeakable horror: thrills, spills, kills, and chills.  Sometimes ghosts reside there.  Sometimes monsters.  It is a place of long hidden secrets.  No daylight, only fright.  Regardless of its purpose for providing safety from storms and such ...

Fuck the rules of feature filmmaking!  When you are having this much fun, who needs character development?  In the upside down world of cult cinema (where the absolute worst the film, the more it appeals to film freaks) ...

Picture it.  Two men are sitting across from each other at a table in a diner.  Their conversation is quick and intense.  One is a very panicked Anthony Starke (best known for his role as the third-person speaking Jimmy in the Seinfeld episode “The Jimmy”) and the other is a  ...

My birthday party at McDonalds was nothing like the impromptu dance sequences at the fast food joint in this movie.  And Ronald McDonald never came to my parties.  Why not, Mom?  Damn it.  I want a refund…or something.  Maybe a free Happy Meal? ...

"How did you die, Joseph? Did you die in this house?  Why do you remain?" There are few films as frightening as The Changeling.  I originally saw this film when I just a little boy and the banging in the ...

Rock‘em schlock‘em grooviness returns! There’s something really strange growing on Billy’s chest.  It’s silver, metallic, and looks very, very alien.  His girlfriend (Cheryl Smith) is concerned about his growing dark side and his doctor (Roddy McDowell)...

Severin Entertainment, having recently released two of Jess Franco's more renowned films in High Definition, continues their horror exploitation roll out with the release of one of Barbara Steele’s most memorable films.  Full of great atmosphere and a solidly gothic will of ...

…in which Canada makes its very first wide-release horror movie. Wait. What?! It’s true. It wasn’t until the early 1960s that our polite friends up north decided to tingle their spines with the psychological art-house 3D terror of director Julian Roffman’s The Mask (AKA   ...

Opening with the familiar notes of Glen Miller’s “In the Mood”, Zone Troopers is a fresh take on the clichéd WW2 war movie with its combination of American soldiers, Nazis, and aliens. Charles Brand (Puppet Master) strikes again, right? Seriously. Once you climb inside this supersonic ship  ...

This is homegrown horror, my friends.  As loopy as it is, The House of the Dead (originally released as Alien Zone) can’t be knocked for being inauthentic.  This Amicus-like horror anthology –  connected by one main storyline as one man, having an affair, gets dropped off ...

Here comes yet another John Carpenter film on blu-ray! Chevy Chase in a John Carpenter movie?  Yes, indeed.  Memoirs of an Invisible Man, while not a commercial success, remains a favorite among Carpenter’s fans.  It also one of Chase’s top ...

The phone rings.  You answer.  “I like you better without the robe.  Take it off.”  Oh, snap.  Someone is looking right at you.  Shit.  This is the territory of one of John Carpenter's most disturbing and psychologically bent horror movies.  The things that go on in our ...

Supergirl is not a great movie.  But something AWESOME happens when you watch it repeatedly.  The damn thing clicks.  This is what happened to me while moving into my new house and it was the only blu-ray on my person.  There is a magic spell that is unleashed ...

James Cameron's first movie as a director isn’t very good.  Even by B-movie standards Piranha II: The Spawning leaves much to be desired.  The film, being a sequel to Roger Corman and Joe Dante’s successful flick, should have been wilder, funnier, and a bit more on point in ...

In what has to be one of the most startling introductions ever put to film, Village of the Damned begins with a series of shots in which it appears all the adults in Midwich have collapsed.  There are groceries scattered throughout the streets.  Common items discarded and ...

Proving there is still some mojo left in the bottle for the Re-Animator series (or maybe it was just a desire to get the gang back together), director Brian Yuzna and star Jeffrey Combs as Dr. Herbert West return, some 13 years later, to the series that put schlock back on ...

It’s big and overweight. It has weird hair. It’s white. It eats skiers and children and, no, it’s not Donald Trump. It is, in fact, the SNOWBEAST and, if you are moving at a high rate of speed down a mountain, chances are good that he will gobble your ass up in his mouth and grind your bones into powder ...

Rabbits.  They aren’t as cute as they seem.  Ask any Australian and they will tell you the truth: underground mutton.  In Night of the Lepus, now on blu-ray thanks to the horror hooligans over at Scream Factory, these furry critters grow and grow and grow and then they ATTACK!  ...

When the Italians go dark with their westerns, there’s no room for heroes. That’s what happens in Cut-Throats Nine, a serious-minded spaghetti western that is more Tarantino than the man himself. It is disturbed, gory, and twisted as hell and it tells one hell of a story ...

The evil eye might be bad luck but so is jacking off a goat, Boils and Ghouls. Tread lightly. Welcome this version of a fleshy and fantasy-ridden Hell, mofos! It is a place where touching yourself is permitted! Woot woot! This is Rosemary’s Baby with more skin, more Satan ...

“Have you ever seen animals make love?”  The question is not as innocent as it sounds.  Neither is the answer.  Especially when Madonna, portraying a suspected bedroom murderer, is the one asking the questions.  She’s being accused of fornicating a rich man to ...

Some girls have all the luck.  Nora Mae Edwards (Elizabeth Mannino), a bummed-out waitress at an all-night diner, just accepted an offer for marriage from a well-dressed dude who likes his women a little cold.  Okay, so maybe she’s not so lucky, but the dude ...

Because sometimes that wild animal magnetism doesn’t stay dead. “We never have any fun with Amy.  She spoils everything,” is the general consensus about one young girl.  She’s a bit odd.  Her parents have noticed certain things in her that cause concern ...

There is a disturbing loneliness that is central to this low budget horror flick from 1975.  Its subject matter is disturbing.  Its sexuality is raw.  It is a movie about a vampire with no fear of crosses or garlic.  And in Mexico, there is no escaping the sun.  An American Vampire  ...

Celebrities Tom Selleck and Roger Mosley, before they starred in Magnum P.I. together, were stuck on a different island located on a different sea. And it definitely was not as scenic as Hawaii. Well, Phyllis Davis (Sweet Sugar) was there so I guess there were definitely massive ...

It has to suck to watch a film suffer in its comprehension due to a missing reel. It almost screams of sabotage. But such is the case for A Breed Apart, now on blu-ray thanks to Shout Factory. Featuring Rutger Hauer protecting an island sanctuary and crawling nude ...

Know this, brothers and sisters: the underworld ALWAYS drags you down. Curtis Mayfield knew how to hit you hard with his soft voice.  He knew all about challenges and what is right and wrong for a society ...

To the victor, long life and happiness!  And, in a movie about the search for the last fertile human woman on the planet (with over 500 uncontaminated eggs in her ovaries), that life had better be a damn good one. Welcome to the New Middle Ages on this garbage dump of ...