DVD Reviews

Augmenting a person’s DNA with limited technology during the Cold War is probably not the best of ideas.  At least, for this group of soviet superheroes it isn’t.  While it does provide them with extraordinary abilities – like ground and rock manipulation, turning into a werebear ...

Heavy. Metal. Horror.  Rock on! I don’t know about you but a longhaired GIANT zombie, wearing gray sweats and a navy hoodie, stumbling through a recreation center swinging an aluminum bat sounds all sorts of crazy fun to me. The zombie eventually corners the ...

The Russians won the space race with the launch of Sputnik-1.  They quickly followed their success with a bunch of interesting science fiction flicks that caught the eye and interest of famed producer Roger Corman.  Some of these cinematic tales were peace offerings to  ...

Women! Witchcraft! And b-movie maestro Jim Wynorski!  This tightlipped tale has it all. Producer Roger Corman always has been a big fan of Edgar Allan Poe.  Even before he made bank with his Poe pictures featuring Vincent Price, he was often returning to Poe’s ...

Deep in the Louisiana swamps, a strange man tackles a woman – who just stepped out of said swamp – to the ground.  She is killed, marked with a hex symbol, and hung upside down from a cypress tree by her feet.  She is then drained of her blood with a slash to her neck ...

Filmed in less than 30 days, The Lift answers the question that has long plagued mankind.  If a blind man falls down an elevator shaft and no one sees him, does he make a sound when he lands?  Why yes, yes he does.  With a kickass spirit and a merciless kill ratio ...

“You know something, George?  I think we’re dead.”  Some films, no matter when they were made, remain connected with whatever audience comes its way.  Topper, a supernatural comedy directed by Norman Z. McLeod ...

Satanic Scooby Snacks for everyone!!!  Yea!!!! With a tiny church at its center, The Devil’s Rain gets some seriously good notes when it comes to its use of imagery and its overall quick pace.  It is also seriously ...

“I think we’ve all learned a valuable safety tip here!” Darkman II: The Return of Durant shouldn’t exist.  I mean, how Durant survives a viscous bridge-meets-helicopter fiery crash with only a few scratches on his head seems beyond...

The world didn’t need a Darkman trilogy.  We got one, thanks to the Direct-To-Video  route, but both films in the series take our beloved and mostly insane Peyton Westlake down a kinder and gentler path in the narrative department, twisting the first film’s ending to  ...

Rah! Rah! Rah!  Devil worshipping and ice-cold beer makes me want to cheer! First these cheerleaders touch and then they tackle.  These young girls mean business and Hell follows wherever they go, especially when they discover that Satanists in a small town in ...

There’s something really wrong with Mr. Franz (John Hoyt, When Worlds Collide).  He talks to the dolls in his office as if they were real people.  He even dresses them in all the latest fashions.  And what’s with the secret laboratory with the NO ADMITTANCE sign painted ...

Writer/director George A. Romero was so much more than that "zombie dude" with the "big goofy" glasses.  His legacy, stretching across four decades, is as tasty as a celebrated hound of horror’s best slobbered on bone.  From 1968’s Night of the Living Dead to the pre-production done ...

If the unforgettable "skeletonized" ending doesn't get to you, Piper Laurie in a low-cut blazing red dress will. Nicky Rocco, over a decade after his violent murder, is indeed coming back to claim what is rightfully his.  But first he’s going to have to deal with the blind dude in the wheelchair and his...

Holy Helloween, Kiddies.  The Barn is, as the “Peanuts” gang used to say, all sorts of “tricks or treats” and it is now on Blu-ray!  Thankfully, Helen’s Valley lives to see another Halloween.   Great, now let’s make some pumpkin pie! ...

Oscar Winners Martin Landau and Jose Ferrar in a monster movie with grand laughs?  Sign me up! A very nude girl paints her toes in her bedroom.  It is night and she’s clueless as to what foul beast is lurking just outside her house.  It is a slug-like monster ...

Radioactive cultists and transient meth-heads unite! Slithis has returned from the contaminated depths of the canals to kill again.  Grab the 6-pack from the fridge, Horror Hounds and Gore-Gore Girls, we're going to need a steady stream of 12 fluid ounces to get through ...

That didn’t take long, Scream Factory.  Thank you! Hot on the heels of their first collection of off-kilter Naschy titles (which came out earlier this year) comes the second round of five titles from the legendary genre character actor. Turns out, with this release, newcomers to ...

James Whale.  Boris Karloff.  The year after Frankenstein was released.  Need I say anything more on why, even today, The Old Dark House absolutely slaughters its audience?  The tension and the creep factor are ratcheted up to levels that seem astounding considering the ...

Imagine you suffered from what the main character in this black-and-white atmospheric chiller suffers from when it comes to auditory vibrations.  A series of loud sounds – whether they are the breaking of dishes on the floor or the crashing of a car out on the street – sends ...

Egads!  An amazingly large creature is on the loose in Los Angeles hunting down women (and it’s not Harvey Weinstein).  It swallows its victims whole sucking them down from finger to toe (again, not Weinstein).  Wailing as it does while slurping them down its throat ...

Psychedelic dream sequences; wild orgies; LSD; and a scene of grotesque canine disemboweling experiments that nearly sent A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin’s famous director to prison.  This is the beating heart of an Italian cinematic masterpiece that explores the fuzzy ...

The Dynamic Duo return to sweep the filth from off the streets of Gotham City this week on Blu-ray and, thanks to Warner Bros Animation, their latest animated adventure is destined to become a Warner Bros-released classic.  It certainly is one of the more exciting entertainment ...

Laissez les bons temps rouler!

Low in budget and high in attitude, Mardis Gras Massacre is a film so deplorably badass ...

A balloon fetish.  Why’d it have to be a balloon fetish?

Bathed in the now familiar green glow of night vision, a camcorder records ...

Out of this world!  Remote Control finally found its HD batteries! ...

“Eat this!” Standing with their backs together and their guns loaded, two friends, Chuck and Stacy, find themselves unloading round after round at the growing undead population that has surrounded them.  The gruesome twosome are  ...

Wreck the halls with kinky jollies!  Masturbation mixed with psychic-linked samurai kills are truly the gifts that keep on giving.  Blood Beat has to be one of the oddest co-productions out there.  It's horror on horseback as some French surrealists meddle with American slashers to ...

Exploding from the innards of a barn comes a roaring beast.  It’s not supernatural; it’s all man-made and, just ask the driver, this machine is an extension of every ill thought he currently has trapped in his skull.   The angst and hurt are real.  And so is the rage that fuels ...

The cats are attacking!  The goddamned cats are attacking!  Everyone flee! ...