DVD Reviews

Because a life on the run is never that much fun! America loves its guns. It is possible that this film noir classic, featuring a bevy of fascinating performances, best explains why. The power they wield is an attraction that cannot be matched. Bang, bang, ...

“Damn. That incidental music is scary!” They are baaaaack! Writer/director Glen Coburn’s creature feature remains a B-grade classic of camp and horror. Vinegar Syndrome gloriously embraces the return of these Bloodsuckers from Outer Space! Chainsaw beheadings never looked this good! ...

“Darling, I’m home!” A child’s birthday should be a special occasion. Full of balloons, kazoos, and party hats, there ought to be smiles on every child in attendance…especially when the cak guye is being presented. The obligatory birthday song follows. And then, as the ...

Sickly sweet trashterpieces made for Gore-Gore Gorillas and Horror Hounds are rarely this good. We tend to like them because we laugh at them and understand the humor involved; some of us appreciate the lo-fi vibe of such DIY efforts. Others just dig the grit and ...

"You move me, Sail, you really do. You mark me the deepest," says Laura Dern as Lula to Nicolas Cage. It is a haunting moment in an equally haunting tale that features an unforgetable Willem Dafoe as an accident prone bank robber, a blonde-haired Isabella Rossellini ...

Nipples. Why’d it have to be nipples? From the very beginning of this Italian sexploitation-cannibal flick, nipples are the target. They don’t stop being one either. Of course, that’s after a flaccid penis has been hacked off and fed to a bunch of cannibals. Nom nom nom. ...

Six people. One house. Sex at the drop of a hat. What could go wrong?! Oh, what a web we weave when we cannot leave! Director Stefanie Rothman (The Working Girls) returns to the arena of the sex comedy with a very hilarious romp in which twosomes become threesomes ...

Bigheaded mutant babies that kill? Forget the toys and balloons. We need guns! Filmmaker Larry Cohen is one hell of a writer. Sure, at the height of his career, he was crafting low budget exploitation tales but, for the most part, his work was ...

Against the Ninja! Let me see those hands in the air! Miami Connection is on blu-ray! Watching a movie as gonzo as Miami Connection, it’s seriously great, helps one understand just how incredibly awesome the 1980s were when it came to moviemaking and...

“Peter! He’s alive!” With that sentence, one surgeon’s ugly truth is revealed. Killer psychotics dressed in white, yes, this thriller is a bit twisted but then what else could you expect from the team behind The Boy Who Cried Werewolf and The Snake Woman? A straight edged  ...

It. Has. Arrived. Science Fiction comic book comedies rarely get this good. Can a plant also be a boyfriend? If the girl is a vegetarian, then yes.  Over the top. Absurd. And EXACTLY what I want in a Swamp Thing movie. This is indeed The Return of Swamp Thing and it arrives ...

Kiddos, when it comes to moviemaking, films RARELY get this ambitious. Primal Scream is what happens when Dashiell Hammett and Arthur C. Clarke get together, smoke a little weed, and decide to make a movie. Outside of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, there is ...

Because Speckled Sussex’s never looked this good before.  That's why. “Hey, Betty, you better get cleaned up. That isn’t exactly perfume you are covered with.” That’s what a newly transported city dweller  ...

“It’s a beautiful world; I shall enjoy it,” says Spain’s Paul Naschy as he, playing The Devil himself, launches on a trek of mayhem across the countryside of 16th century Spain. He knows what will happen and he’s down for it; ALL of it as both virtue and vice come out from ...

Doctor Who’s John Pertwee as an actor possessed by a vampires’ cape? Sign me up! From Amicus Productions comes one of the very best anthology tales to ever appear on the terror scene. Spooky and atmospheric, The House that Dripped Blood is a classy affair ...

Not everyone can fend off a rapist with a car cigarette lighter. Kat (Roxanna Michaels), as in Pussy, and Dollarhide (Rhonda Wallace) can, though, and, in this chicks-in-chains flick, it’s moments like that makes this unrated grindhouse flick a total gutter-dwelling keeper of a ...

Motorcross Madness! Watch a bike get put in the slammer in this kid-friendly adventure that sees one boy go all the way in saving his favorite hot dog … stand ...

Shot on video, meta as hell, and directed by Ron Bonk, Vicious Sweet is psychological terror straight from VHS Hell. The film begins with a super sexy make-out session in the woods. I mean these two lovebirds are really going at it. Tongue swapping and head rotating ...

Mothertruckin' mamas in pink rigs are not to be messed with! Truck Stop Women, starring Claudia Jennings, Lieux Dressler and John Martino, might just have one of the better openings out there in B-movie land. In an oversized tub  ...

Breakdancing gets BOSS! Bernie and Chic are the best of buds. They dance around in an underground warehouse of stolen and smuggled goods and sing along (or try to) with a simple song that blasts out from the boombox. They are completely out of touch with ...

Bad kung fu. Horrible acting. Bad bikers. And gratuitous nudity. Who knew life up and down the PCH 101 could be so damn wild? ...

Big guns. Big traps. Bigger worms. I absolutely love it when a franchise switches it up and still delivers a rocking affair. This is the case for Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell. Instead of the desert vistas, we get ...

Tom Selleck is one bad motherfucker. I’m just going to go ahead and throw that out there. Even when he plays an art collector, he still has the skills to smash skulls together. Forget Magnum P.I.; we already know from that show that he is. Daughters of Satan is all you ...

It begins like a bomb going off. Frantic and haphazardly edited together, two unrelated scenes – a truck barreling down the highway and a woman about to be beaten – converge to create a fast paced beginning to this Ozploitation flick. Savage Attraction (aka Hostage) is a ...

The study of human aggression goes astray when the experimenting turns toward a primate.  At least that is what we are led to believe.  Poor Shakma.  The biggest baboon in the room just got spinal tapped and he’s not too happy about it.  In fact, this damn primate ...

ETA to splashdown in 2 seconds! With those words, after an innocent night of drugs and partying with a pimp and some ladies of the night, one supreme geek finds his inner super pimp and becomes a demented agent of change named Doctor Detroit. ...

Get forklifted, baby!  Poodle zombies are on the loose! It’s the damn giggling that always gets me. Mummified children brought to life on a fog-drenched night be terrifying enough for some people, but when they fucking snicker in high-pitched delight as they approach  ...

Cyborg is a prime of example of why the action flicks of yesteryear kicked so much damn ass. With a charismatic performance from Jean-Claude Van Damme and more than a fair share of gnarly and over-the-top action sequences, it’s no wonder that this flick is a top request  ...

So maybe 3000 birth control pills are hard to come by. Code Red; however, doesn’t have a problem supplying us with the goods thanks to its handling of this all new high definition transfer of a cult classic. ...

When bears attack. That’s a thing, right? Because that’s EXACTLY what this movie is selling. But it’s not just any bear. No. The killer at the center of this horror film is a hungry 15-foot grizzly bear that is damn deadly with his paws and its attitude. Thankfully, we have female ...