DVD Reviews

If I ever needed a ride and the driver of the car that stopped to pick my broke ass up greeted me with a casual line like “you’d complete my collection”, well, I do believe I’d start running quickly away. Fuck this and fuck you; I’m out. Blue Vengeance would have been a quick ...

“What’s the matter? Haven’t you ever seen a banana before?” With those words, one nude man greets Honey (Sarah Kennedy), who is new in town and in the apartment where Denise (Laurie Rose) has invited her to stay. You see, times are tough; the economy is in the tank ...

Jean jackets, big guns, and some backdoor action. Oh my! When the hits are this hard, it helps for them to be delivered by a woman "so fucking smooth" like this wiseass cop. Her name is Silk and she’s no joke. Her slick hair, pulled tight into a bun, tells you all you need to ...

Keep those tongues firmly in your cheeks, Horror Hounds and Gore-Gore Girls. A true cult classic is back in circulation to make sure you treat the water and all your fishing poles with respect OR ELSE! ...

Before you press play on Terror, you need to throw logic out the window.  Don't think.  Just do it. ...

Otherwise known as the world as metaphor.  When you talk about originality in cinema, you best not forget to mention filmmaker Slava Tsukerman.  Tsukerman, a soviet born artist who moved to New York City in 1973, created something unique with the release of 1982’s cult classic ...

“That’s what I call a brain freeze!” Clint Howard: the man, the myth, the legend.  Only he could bring the crazy character at the bottom of the Ice Cream Man to life and he does it with aplomb, clawing the change dumped by grubby hands into the bucket as he growls ...

“I shot a cop . . . so what!” Good citizenship.  Self-restraint.  Politeness.  Loyalty.  These four words of social graces are written on a chalkboard that four girls pass by during the pre-credits scene in Ed Wood’s penned cult classic, The Violent Years.  They are four words that ...

“I feel like I am stuck inside a low budget horror film,” says Carmine Capobianco as he stares into the camera.  He’s right, of course, he is stuck inside a low budget horror film and it is a glorious sight indeed to behold.  Disconnected might not make a whole lot of sense ...

The movie begins with a lightning strike and then another.  A cascade of rain pounds against the backs and heads of a team of hikers who take shelter in a cave while the storm rages on.  It is there they meet the bearded narrator of One Million B.C.; an anthropologist ...

Because safe is a state of mind. The first warning happens right in front of the Pompidou Centre when a tourist’s camera, while he is recording his thoughts on one of the best-known sights in Paris, is stolen by an unidentified male.  Hauling ass through a crowded...

Chi-Town.  Karate.  Chuck Norris.  And a killer soundtrack from David Michael Frank. Is there anything – and this includes the synthesized score – that Code of Silence doesn’t get right?  It is both character driven and intense, filling each scene with violence and ...

It begins on a beach.  A woman is laughing.  She’s seeing all the muscles on display; the men hulking out in their shorts on the beach.  Lots of ogling is going on.  And she starts to laugh.  She sees them working out and then she sees them with blood spurting out of fresh ...

This theatre is damned!  Sorry, Aronofsky, you aren’t as unique as was once thought.  Étoile reveals all the reasons why. With Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake” at its center, Étoile – a rather enigmatic movie concerning ghosts, satanic possessions, and ballerinas – provides  ...

Surrender.  Forget the common and known world.  Once you enter the wild and wacky world of Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood, life, as you know it, becomes permanently altered.  There is a dream but you are not the dreamer ...

The damn doll at the center of this tale of kidnapping and insanity is an unsettling looking toy indeed.  The curly-haired plastic child is always with the disturbed mother who is trying to get her daughter returned to her by any means necessary and, as the toy is oversized, it looks ...

Released in 1984, Charles E. Sellier Jr’s Silent Night, Deadly Night did for Christmas what John Carpenter did for trick or treating: memorialize the day with a seriously twisted flick that continues to live on long past its expiration date.  And here we are yet again with another ...

Survivor’s guilt is a real thing. Just ask Thom Eberhardt (Night of the Comet), the writer and director of Sole Survivor, a psychological twisted horror film that concerns itself with the lone survivor of a doomed commercial airliner and the haunted visions that follow her as she ...

I’m unsure if there is anything creepier than adults, dressed as children, behaving exactly as one would expect kids to behave.  For Fanny and Woody, playing on an old swing that goes out over the sea, theirs is to lure guests into their traps and then watch as they go ...

There’s really nothing I can do to save you from yourself if the first five minutes of director Vicente Aranda’s The Blood Spattered Bride does absolutely nothing for you.  Tarantino has alluded to its mesmerizing effectiveness, going so far as to name one of his chapters in ...

It happened again.  Whatever side of the coin you land on when it comes to appreciating Twin Peaks: The Return and its use of Tulpas, the point is that it happened.  And we should ALWAYS be grateful – no matter if there is another season or not – that Twin Peaks soldiered ...

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  ...

September 26.  To my knowledge that’s the only day Jeepers Creepers 3 was granted access to theaters.  You know why and I’m not about to go into all the details surrounding writer/director Victor Salva (Powder, Jeepers Creepers) past here.  The point is that  ...

When was the last time you bowled with a severed head?  Fought off possessed humans with bowling pins?  Freed an imp from a bowling trophy?  If you never have, then Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama is the gutterball-minded flick for you. ...

Know this: Bone Tomahawk, the horror western that tore at our guts last year, was no fucking fluke.  Writer/director S. Craig Zahler is the real deal when it comes to B-movie minded badass pictures and Vince Vaughn, bald and in shape as the drug dealing focal point of ...

This movie, directed by Hell Night’s Tom DeSimone, is why I don’t go skiing. That white powder on the ground? It’s not always snow and, once discovered, it could land you in a prison for the baddest of bad little girls. And, trust me, I don’t want to belong to someone ...

Blood and whipped cream.  That's the party you can expect when Jungle Jimmy comes home. Mighty human meatballs!  If the first few moments of Cut and Run don’t churn your stomach than you, my friend, are dead already.  It’s a ferociously bloody and brutal opening ...

The Half Moon Killer strikes again! First and foremost, there is the undying groove as Seven Blood Stained Orchids, a crimson-spattered film in which a brown-haired prostitute meets her nickel-sized fate in a cornfield, opens upon the streets in an expressionistic manner ...

Score another one for the good guys!  Hell Night, being a fun-loving meditation on the very nature of gothic haunts and twisted terror by the man who brought you The Concrete Jungle (which I reviewed just last week), Chatterbox, and Reform School Girls, is finally back ...

“Alright, ladies, from here on out your machete is your best friend.  Keep it clean.  Keep it sharp.  And keep it well oiled.”  With those specific instructions, the burly guards of one sugarcane harvesting prison program in Costa Rica unleash Hell itself by arming the ...