DVD Reviews

Because everyone has a secret. The stand-up bass; the muted trumpet; and those ominous chords.  It’s all about the cool jazz of composer Angelo Badalamenti, folks.  But the close-up on the static-filled television suggests...

If the deliberate pace of Lurkers (and its photographic effects) doesn’t get you, then the presence of a two-foot tall rubber Satan in Prime Evil certainly will. ...

Beyond the Seventh Door, on its string bean budget and with its Jigsaw-like way, is every bit the very definition of a cult classic.  And any negative thing you can say about it merely adds to the film’s growing fandom.  That’s power right there, folks, and, truly, this bizarre ...

There’s something wrong with Karen (Tara Chung).  She’s dry humping the beach again.  Truthfully, while she does display a whole hell of a lot mental instability during writer/director Roberta Findlay’s skin flick, she’s not as fucked up as the people around her.  And ...

Few of us can say that we’ve been baptized by a hot stream of piss.  That’s probably not something people list when asked about their individual life goals.  I’m sure there’s someone out there that thinks being on bended knee in front of a gigantic pagan God as he ...

Model-turned-actress Isa Jank (Forbidden Love), with her stunning looks, is good at getting attention.  The camera, at one time, really loved lingering on her high cheek-boned ways.  Considered hot property by the late 1980s, she was pretty much leveled to a pillar of ash ...

Pay attention, fools!  When a horse – broken, trained, and otherwise tame – has a nasty reaction to a person and then, later, breaks free from its pen and charges the same person, trying to stomp them into the ground, it usually means something.  That’s what happens to ...

If the opening moments of Kill, Baby, Kill aren’t enough to set you on edge, then I suppose nothing else in Mario Bava’s bloody good movie will either.  Move along, kid.  There’s literally nothing for YOU to see here if you remain unaffected by its suspense.  This film ...

There’s something funky tasting with the meat in this bowl of chili.  The owner of the restaurant wants to find out why.  He pours the vat of chili out into the sink.  It plop, plop, plops with thick gumminess as it hits the silver, trickling slowly out in clumps.  He sees nothing wrong ...

"Thou shall not steal!  Thou shall not steal!" For anyone long overdue for some nasty revenge by way of a supernatural phone call, this is the film, warts and all, for you.  And all you have to do is pick up the phone and dial seven digits....

Opening by ripping off Evil Dead with its own talking book of the dead, Evil Toons announces itself early on as a dead end b-movie as David Carradine, looking all sorts of wizardly, hides in the shadows.  With a grim face and white straw-like hair, he casts a spell with his undead ...

Slaughter High, even for a b-movie, just barely gets a passing score.   Written and directed by George Dugdale, Mark Ezra and Peter Litten and co-starring Carmine Iannaccone and Gary Martin, this cult flick favorite survives the passing of the VHS-era of home ...

Cheeseburger!  Cheeseboiger!  Cheeseboiger! Everybody knows that machines don't get hungry.  They also can't reproduce or think for themselves.  Or can they? ...

Sixty minutes of Bela Lugosi brow-beating back a recently thawed cave man with a rolled-up piece of paper that is on fire?  Oh, man.  Where do I sign up for this zany B-movie madness?  Return of the Ape Man is rich, I tell you, super rich.  Just wait until the cave man sits behind ...

“I cannot rest.  I cannot rest.” With those words, a casual line becomes a warning as a vampire – dressed all in white – takes the life of yet another victim.  She is asleep.  The little dog in her...

The Living Dead saga was alive and well back in 2005.  Keep in mind that this was long before the rise of Donald Trump and his own peculiar brand of brain dead followers.  Yet, thanks to a scathing political commentary, the horror film was already keenly aware of where we ...

When we get to any discussion on the films of William Castle, there are so many to consider that it becomes overwhelming. The famed director, producer, screenwriter, and actor never found a promotion he didn’t like. He was, in fact, a sheer master of filling theaters with  ...

Get the Yuletide fears this Halloween season.  Red Christmas has arrived! ...

It’s green.  It radiates.  It spreads.  And it’s on the surface of a rogue asteroid headed toward our planet.  The Green Slime must be stopped ...

I’m not sure there is a more timely release date for The Hidden than right now.  This forgotten and largely ignored tale of cops and aliens is a fun festival of all our recent greatest hits.  A creepy crawly alien taking over the mind of a wannabe president?  Wowser.  I am all ears ...

The river appears cold and an old man – silent and sullen – has a weighty expression drawing his lips together into a fierce single line as he tolls a forlorn bell. His eyes are full of the bleak landscape; immediate and mean.  His is a face dirty and grim with the soiled handiwork ...

Kids and corporations go hand-in-hand. Don’t believe me? Just watch any cartoon show and count the number of commercials tailored for them. It should be no secret; Corporations DEPEND on their brand being imprinted upon these tiny tots and the earlier the better ...

Have you seen the new girl?  Elizabeth (Nicola Diana) is her name.  And she’s a weird one, demanding protection from the adults who try to tame her curious influence over all the other kids in the orphanage.  She’s got two little devotees by her side all of the time ...

Devil worshipping and zombie rapes.  Oh my!  When did SOV titles get so risqué?!  The answer, of course, is ALWAYS!  Hell, yes! ...

Disembodied voices from a bygone era; the sound of the restless sea; moonlight crashing against the rocks surrounding the island’s lighthouse, and the heavy fog endlessly spilling in from an unnamable source.  All of these are spectacular qualities that surround the mysterious  ...

There is an unsettling darkness that washes out over the lake at the center of this haunted tale.  With plenty of warnings and a bunch of drawings thanks the talents of a small child, we shouldn’t really be surprised when a strange figure emerges from the water and  ...

Nebraska.  Springsteen territory.  Think the howls in the dark songs featured on his album of raw demos.  This is your auditory entrance into the bleak horizon that overlooks Children of the Corn and the outside world, represented by the sudden arrival of the unsuspecting  ...

Hells Bells!  That kinky night of S&M you’ve always wanted finally has its soundtrack thanks to composer Claudio Natili’s devilish use of the saxophone.  One taste of The Devil’s Honey and, sweetie, you’re going to be coming back for more and more.  I promise. ...

When done correctly, the giallo can be quite the cinematic experience.  And Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci has his fair share of effective thrillers.  He also can’t escape the occasional dud either.  That's not what we have here, though.  Not at all.  Combining a mood-stirring ...

“Son of a bitch.” Those are the words mouthed by the freshly decapitated head of a gore-gore dancing member of a punk band called The Killer Barbies.  They aren’t your average brand of punk but she, after being chased naked through a dense spot of trees for the night ...