DVD Reviews

Eurotrash cinema by way of slinky and naked snake handling?  Yummy. If gorgeous and exotic topless women dancing open-mouthed with a damn big snake wrapping around them as an organ soundtrack plays with a chorus of female voices chanting  “Gee-gee-I” turns you on ...

Sick thrills for hotheaded teenagers! The Cuban Missile Crisis!  Bring in the nuked and still marching ants, too!  My God, I love this film.  I, too, have a serious crush on William Castle, the producer the film is based upon.  His independently made horror films, no matter how ...

“Yor’s world!  He’s the man!  Yor’s world!”  With these puzzling lyrics, Oliver Onions, a duo best known for their cheesy soundtrack work, perfectly matches their cosmic melody with a downhill (and hilariously goofy) introduction to our hero.  He’s trying really hard to be all ...

Finally.  With this release from Australian home video company Umbrella Entertainment, a long requested top 10 horror film arrives on blu-ray. Stephen King’s Silver Bullet, starring Gary Busey, Everett McGill, Corey Haim, Anne of Green Gables’ Megan Follows, and LOST’s ...

Holy Frying Felines!  How are YOU going to explain the C-A-T in the rotisserie?  It is, of course, one of my favorite questions in this cat-centered cult classic that Scream Factory puts back into circulation this week.  The bizarre film, with its lurking cats and mysterious music ...

"You have no future," read the signs and flyers populating this flick.  With those words, a whole new world of arm-wrestling, cyborgs, truck drivers, and low-flying helicopter chases over bridges begins.  Hands of Steel goes rogue soon after it begins and concerns itself  ...

Don Johnson has A Boy and His Dog long before there was any idea of Sonny Crockett.  It’s only fair then, in those pre-Miami Vice days, that Philip Michael Thomas had an exploitative cult hit under his no-belted waist, too.  Stigma, a movie that tackles a nasty sexually ...

A killer cult classic gets cleaned up for its HD debut!  And, no, I am not clowning around.  Heh heh. Written and directed by Mark Rosman (The Blue Yonder), The House on Sorority Row is a slasher film about a wicked prank gone horribly wrong ...

Bad acting, bad sex, and organic tea.  Count me in!  What more could five loose women on the run from a prison want on the long and winding road back to the real world?  Violent hippies with awesome moustaches and chains?  Ed Wood in a dual role?  Hell, this ...

His fingers have been eaten away.  He will no longer be able to use them.  Well, that sounds like a challenge to me!  Game on!  Long live the Texas-based American Genre Film Archive as, once again, they make movies fun again! AGFA goes the distance in rescuing director ...

The Italian giallo, my fiends, was still going strong in the 1980s.  Yes, two decades after its debut, the surreal qualities of the sub-genre were still solidly at play in theaters and also still very popular among cult enthusiasts.  Due to the rise of the slasher in America ...

Orgies! Cocaine! A bug-eyed hypnotist!  And women, women, women!  Lucifer's Women is a nutso exploration between evil energy sources as satanic possession makes one woman's skin crawl. ...

I’m not sure anyone should hold a gun to the back of Sid Haig’s legendary bald head.  There’s always Hell to pay later.  Thankfully, the lasers in The Aftermath are not set to stun.  Long neglected, it is now time to welcome a true cult ...

Half-man, half-sea serpent; all thrashing rubber!  Filmmaker Harry Essex is at it once again.  Yes, the writer of Creature from the Black Lagoon and It Came from Outer Space is once again striking fear into the hearts of ecologists with his stock footage-padded warning about ...

All we wanted was a bigger and healthier tomato, what we got was a ripe parody that paved the way for such comedy classics like Airplane! and all the other beloved and relatively tasteless gag-filled comedies that populated the scene at the time of its release ...

Being in the wrong place at the wrong time just might save your life. Martel "Too Sweet" Gordone (Leon Isaac Kennedy) has an axe to grind.  If he has to do it against the skulls of the two bikers who kick dust and sand up into his makeshift tent while he sleeps ...

Class of 1999 is, of course, the film that reveals the truth behind the magic of Pam Grier's glorious breasts.  The scene, happening in a school hallway after she takes down two gang leaders on their motorbikes with one swift motion, is both awe inspiring and cringeworthy ...

Anarchy and hedonism!  The Romantic writers, according to this fictionalized account of the creation of Shelley's Frankenstein and Polidari's The Vampyre, were a bunch of cock-gobbling druggies.  This is probably true.  And, as the sex is as rampant as the wild visual  ...

She’s smart.  She’s sexy.  She’s new in town and she’s all sorts of sweet sixteen.  She also likes making it with boys on sacred Native American burial grounds in the desert.  What a way to get your rocks off, honey!  The bad thing for the boys, though, is that they have a ...

Always pay your cab drivers, kids. That’s one lesson to take from watching Code Red’s Blu-ray release of The Apartment on the 13th Floor, a psychological horror film about a slaughterhouse worker who loses his shit one night and just snaps. Eventually, he finds it ...

Mutant cats, sabertooth rats, and gold lamé outfits! Nothing good can ever come from an evil that’s been buried for over 2000 years.  That, my friends, is something that you can take to the bank.  But what if that ancient horror found its way into a Blaxploitation martial arts flick?...

This Italian-Spanish co-production is a shoddy horror film. Know that first. Panic is; however, quite interesting in its own way, weaving a tale about scientists who create something they cannot even hope to control through failed bacteria experiments, as it has more ...

Four films in, I think it is safe to say that Honey Island Swamp is getting crowded. Writer/Director Adam Green’s Hatchet series just crash-landed (and I mean that both literally and figuratively).  Hitting its stride in the second and third installment, Victor Crowley, an unneeded ...

Artsy kink.  This is what awaits you inside one of director Jesús "Jess" Franco best and most masterfully shot films. With Spanish-born filmmaker Jess Franco’s eerie feature, The Diabolical Dr. Z, things begin to get sexy and strange.  Truthfully, there’s no going back either as  ...

Holy Hatchets!  The moving severed limbs of one deceased wife attacking the people who plotted her basement murder are all you need to see in order to believe in the IMPACT of Amicus Productions.  Chop. Chop. Chop.  ...

Even primal therapy was never this raw. Produced and directed by Don Jones, the opening montage of china dolls set to a really cheesy song that, simply put, is beyond tortuous for its audience is just about the most disquieting way to begin this lurid tale of madness and murder ...

When this film was originally released NINE YEARS AGO, we really wanted writer/director Sam Raimi to be back in the business of scaring the pants off of us and making us howl with laughter. We got exactly what we wanted with Drag Me to Hell even if Raimi remained relatively ...

While it is way too slick in comparison to the first two Texas Chainsaw Massacre films, New Line Cinema’s rebranding of the series – as confusing as that opening scrawl is – remains of interest because, originally set to be released as the 1980s came to a close, this film would ...

Code Red does fans of the Drive-In a very cool favor with the release of the Chaos and Don’t Look in the Basement double feature. While Don’t Look in the Basement has been released on Blu-ray previously, never before has the cult classic been presented in a twofer ...

A shell of a building. An empty room. And a line of monitors all tuned in to the same dead channel: a close-up of a corpse. It is the face of Don Luigi Costa, a religious man who gave up his vows after his horrible diagnosis. How bizarre! How eerie! How utterly unusual! What ...