DVD Reviews

Big hair. Shoulder pads. Casual sex. And Andrew Dice Clay. Anyone else miss the 1980s? I mean, who’d have thought the words “safe” and “sex” would ever appear in the same sentence? ...

“What have you done to Judy?!” It begins with a godawful cover of “House of the Rising Sun” and it ends with the world’s longest (and highly preventable) head-on collision as Judy LaRue (Penthouse's own Patty Mullen) and her fiancee are ...

Because dreamers can also be healers. Otherworldy.  That is one word that best describes the stark black-and-white opening of The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey.  In it, we are thrust into a world that is both disturbing and deadly ...

Always a smoke.  Never a light.  Except this time is different: Enter the Devil is a diamond in the rough of cheap and greasy drive-in flicks.  It is to be experienced and marveled at as a stunning example of effective and shocking regional thrillers.  And it still works ...

To the sea! To the sea!  It is what Tom Burlinson commands as windsurfer Stewart “PC” Simpson in director Vincent Monton’s romantic comedy, Windrider.  This Australian film is as fun as the buggy Simpson drives to work.  I don’t know what it is about Australia’s ...

Poor Barbara.  Barbara.  Barbara.  Barbara.  They truly are coming to get you, Barbara.  In what might go down as one of the most gruesome (and serious) horror deaths of the early 2000s, this poor woman is strung up nude and slashed repeatedly as she is lowered ...

“What I did tonight, I did for my family.” Print critics, back in the day, might have kicked its ass but, damn, people STILL love the characters in the highly-quotable Lionheart.  It is, as far as Jean-Claude Van Damme is concerned, a very important film as it proved that he could  ...

Ridiculous.  Funny.  And now on blu-ray thanks to Scream Factory!  Cheap and cheesy, Alien Predators, originally released on VHS as The Falling, was one of my many go-to flicks at the video store back in the day.  Oh, to be held in the arms of the lovely Lynn-Holly Johnson ...

Time to sleep! Making its blu-ray debut is a retrograde schlock fest, The Sleeper, that gets quite a number of horror elements right in its 90-minutes. It is a film that embraces the ABSOLUTE Disturbing as one man, with milky-blue eyes and one hell of sick whisper, stalks the halls and ...

A decade is a long time to wait.  But, sometimes, it pays off.  That's the case here with The Strangers: Prey at Night.  The same steady pace. The same unwinding feel. And, oh, the same horror. Strangers: Prey at Night is as unsettling as the original film, making it a worthy ...

Any film that credits Orson Welles as Magic Consultant must be, at the very least, viewed once in a person’s life. Even if the film is a big pile of stinky poop. Horror film or cult comedy? You decide. The film is not successful at either and yet it continues to exist and, as you’d ...

Who knew that Bigfoot was an overgrown peeping Tom? Someone did because, in the fully restored version of Abominable, fans get to see that hairy bastard spy on a showering girl and then, as she comes near the window to close it, witness him reach right in, pull ...

In which a schlocky cult classic - complete with beauty, brawn, and brains - is REBORN! Time to dance your fear away, fight in a dusty graveyard, and sharpen those badass blades of fury. Just know this about that long missing deleted scene: it isn’t included and is likely gone ...

Paul Verhoeven does not make bad films. Argue with me all you want to about the massive raspberry that you claim is Showgirls and I will defend it to my last breath. It is everything that it is BY DESIGN. Verhoeven, the Dutch filmmaker that gave us RoboCop, Total Recall ...

First and foremost, director Rob Cohen's latest flick does NOT rock you like a hurricane.  It might, in fact, do the opposite and put your ass to sleep.  Somehow the director of The Fast and The Furious, Dragonheart, xXx, and Daylight inexplicably drains the mighty ferociousness ...

Because there is life after death … if you are a zombie! Director Claudio Fragasso (Troll 2) returns the zombie lore back to basics with a tale of voodoo (Who do? You do!) and a curse that has widespread repercussions in this Italian trashterpiece of island schlock rock. With this hot and ...

When birds attack! Being pecked in the face repeatedly is no laughing matter. I once had a run-in with a chicken when I was a small boy. It’s no fun. Those dinosaur descendants will peck your eyes out if you aren’t careful. In Zombie 3, now on blu-ray thanks to ...

“It’s as if it is deliberately trying to ram us!” When it comes to farewell lines in seafaring history, there might not be a more prophetic sentence spoken… unless, of course, someone on the Titanic uttered something about needing ice for a drink mere seconds before the ...

Venice is now a dead city. No, I am not talking about “Vexit” or any other number of concerns that currently plague Italy’s beautiful city. I’m talking solely about director Bruno Mattei’s 1989 Italian science-fiction rip-off of two of the most awesomely awesome films ...

Get those squirt guns loaded, Freaks and Geeks! There are nuclear age creatures living below San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.  These psychotic dudes are fierce, too.  When not munching on oversexed teenagers, they eat pigeons and are armed to the teeth ...

Where’s Sweetback?  He started from the bottom now he's here, man. I t is a movie made for the cool in you. Yes, Babyface, I am copping that title as well for this review. You see, this landmark movie, written, co-produced, scored, edited, directed ...

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...