DVD Reviews

KAPOW! GLURP! CRRAAACK! BIF! BAM! BANG! KAYO! There’s no way in hell you can convince me that director Robert O’Neil’s Wonder Women isn’t inspired in some part by the uproarious camp of Batman, the television show.  This B-movie might be the only film in history that sexualizes ...

Even by Atomic Age standards, this low grade exploration into the effects of radiation on living animals is pretty terrible.  Maybe drunk enough, this low budget matinee flick comes alive.  As it is, The Cyclops is hit-and-miss adventure that features rather large lizards, snakes,  ...

Don’t you dare cover your eyes!  Once Body Melt begins, there is no looking away. This is a movie concerned about the equipping the human body with the right fuel in order to make it run better.  It is also a movie about enlarged tongues and exploding boners that grow to  ...

"26 million miles from Earth, and the dolls are still the same!" Bedazzling certain items in your wardrobe is nothing new.  Cute! Cute! Cute! Just look at what Queen Yllana does to her mask in the laser-brained adventure that is Queen of Outer Space.  The glitter!  The sparkles! ...

I am STILL not sure of what I have seen.  My first trip with this sequel was in high school. But the idea of hypnosis as a vehicle for good and evil just didn’t take hold.  It still doesn’t. All I remember liking about this movie was Linda Blair in a see-through nightgown. Seriously ...

Remember the Master-Blaster character combo from Mad Max Beyond the Thunderdome?  The Master, played by Angelo Rossitto, was positioned on top of The Blaster, played by Paul Larsson and together they operated the methane-heavy Underworld ...

It begins in a dingy motel room.  A cassette player is on.  A disheveled looking man, worn out but determined, is listening to his own recording.  That voice speaks honesty.  He is determined to get his story published.  It is important.  No matter how ridiculous it sounds ...

A solid synth score leads things off.  GREAT.  A spooky setting is quickly made clear as the titles begin and end.  AWESOME.  There’s a jump scare early on and then…and then…nothing.  What the hell, man?!  Blessed Are the Children starts right out of the gate  ...

To this day, there remains something insanely special about director Brian De Palma’s Carrie.  It is based on the once-discarded novel by Stephen King, but was painstakingly adapted for the screen by Lawrence D. Cohen.  Cohen got everything about King’s first novel right  ...

Perhaps it is the close-up on the eyeball in the shadows.  Piercing.  Constant.  Terrifying.  Or maybe it is the SCREAM that stops a silent movie, separating the audience into steady streams of shock as a motion picture stops its own rollout to pay tribute ...

“Blessed be the New Founders! Blessed be the new America!” The Tea Party, born out of frustration from having their conservative voices and agenda ignored, are now in power.  What a difference five long years make!  When the original film was made  ...

It’s been eleven long years since I first saw this horror film and, yeah, I am still talking about it.  Why?  Because it’s THAT good and it turns out that there are still people out there who are virgins to its twisted tales of morbidity.  And now Scream Factory gives us a ...

There’s a spot on the wall.  It wasn’t there before.  You move closer.  What is it? And so, you move even closer.  Closer still.  And then the spot moves.  It’s an eye!  Someone is inside the house.  Holy shit, man.  Screaming and running away are the only choices! ...

In which the showman, with spotlights and all, actually becomes the show. I hold William Castle with high regard when it comes to horror.  Entertaining as hell, he could always be relied on to create an atmosphere with his many films.  Audiences are only now just ...

Who needs booze when you have practical gore effects as nasty as the ones on display in this nonstop party?! Writer/director James Riffel (Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Terror) made a masterpiece for ...

The esteemed work of celebrated producer/director Dan Curtis (The Night Stalker, The Night Strangler) continues to roll out on blu-ray thanks to the fine 4K remastering efforts of Kino Lorber Studio Classics.  This week’s release tackles an anthology that, once seen ...

Lewd! Rude! Gutted and STEWED!  Because you can't look away!!! There are still lifeforms living in the jungles of New Guinea that we know nothing about.  New species are routinely being discovered, too.  To suggest that there it an unknown tribe of cannibals living ...

It’s time to go APE! Producer Jack H. Harris, with his long stretch of AWESOME and INFLUENTIAL monster movies, created quite the underground movement in cinema.  B-movie after B-movie came following in the wake of his successes ...

Hammer Films shakes off the cobwebs with Dracula A.D. 1972, their funkiest flick to date.  Never their best effort, this baptism of the walking dead is certainly entertaining in its effort to resurrect the original “Bat” man.  And our first glimpse of Christopher Lee resurrected  ...

Marvel’s Green Goblin mask on the grate of the black Western Star semi-truck; that is one key memory I have of Vestron Video Collector’s Series latest release.  A steamroller without a driver crushing the body and skull of a little league baseball player is another.  Wilmington,  ...

This is a low budget horror/comedy in which an exorcism is performed on a motorcycle.  If you are already groaning, stop reading.  The shit isn’t going to get any better for you. Still here?  Good.  Allow me to continue ...

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 ...