DVD Reviews

If the symbolism in this independent horror film doesn’t stitch the fear of the Goddess right onto your supple flesh then there’s little hope for the everlasting soul that your skin shields. Dark Waters is intense.  The art-house horror in this Nunsploitation masterpiece about ...

“The genitals are the door to evil! The vagina, the uterus, the womb; the labyrinth that leads to hell; the devil’s tools!” Father, please forgive me.  I have sinned and actually enjoyed a nunploitation flick last night.  I know I am not supposed to (just like I know I’m not ...

In which the real monsters are revealed to be us, brothers and sisters.  Welcome to Hell, motherfuckers! My friends and I often have conversations about the horror movies released during the 1990s and what is so painfully wrong with most of them.  And then we get to ...

“Sometimes I dare death to try to catch me.  Grab me.  Ya know what I mean,” confesses a stuntman named B.J. (James Stacy).  B.J., who lost his arm and leg on the left side of his body (along with his wife) after an unfortunate car crash, is just one of the many interesting ...

Being the obstinate fool that I am, I have had many run-ins with local law enforcers.  I just can’t help myself.  Most of them – mustached or not – have been surprisingly accommodating, using zip ties instead of handcuffs and so on.  Of course, there’s always that asshole ...

About twenty minutes into The Mephisto Waltz all hell breaks loose when a costume party literally goes to the dogs.  With a human mask securely fastened to its head, a black dog strolls into the room.  Don’t adjust the picture.  Yes, even the canines are into the devil’s work ...

Remember that time when famed Italian director Mario Bava co-directed a wacky tale of science fiction terror about a Mayan blob that tormented some researchers in Mexico?  What’s that?  You don’t remember Caltiki, the Immortal Monster or the pool of gold- ...

This film might kill you.  Honestly, truer words have seldom been spoken.  The banging window.  The knocking on the door.  Don’t investigate it, Jenni (Peggy Webber), just leave it alone.  Webber could be your plainspoken Auntie, folks, and you definitely don’t want anything ...

Vampire bat blood in pill form.  Taken three times a day, it guarantees a high that will leave you long in the tooth. Picture it.  A domestic scene.  A doctor, a little freaked by what he may or not have taken, confronts his young daughter.  "What the hell are these,"  ...

The films in the collection might be at random and, as a result, it might be incomplete but Shout Factory’s release of The Vincent Price Collection is truly something any fan of classic horror can celebrate with cake, decorations, and nonstop parties this Halloween season ...

Writer, director, producer Roger Corman, the celebrated King of the B-movie, has very rarely let me down as a member of his audience.  I found his book, How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime, to be a sort of oracle guiding me across the California   ...

It. Has. Arrived. Plan 9 from Outer Space is believed to be the worst movie of all time.  It was originally made in 1959, long before the days of M. Night’s The Happening or The Last Airbender which are examples of the worst movies ever made ...

Holy shit!  Tree roots from Hell!!  Edited together in such a way to kill any sense of forward momentum, the sheer lunacy of Contamination .7 (also released as The Crawlers, Troll 3, and almost any other title imaginable) makes this release from Scream Factory  ...

“I’m the red queen.  She’s the black queen,” chants Kitty’s sister, Evelyn.  The two siblings have grown up raised by their grandfather.  The family mansion has been their playground, but the two sisters have always been fighting.  His stories have often revolved around ...

Some men should never remarry.  Alan Cunningham (Anthony Steffen, Django the Bastard), a milk-obsessed lover of ginger-haired strippers, is one of those poor, unfortunate bastards.  Don’t boo hoo him.  He’s lost his shit a long time ago.  Plus, in this insane tale of lace  ...

Originally paired at the drive-in with 1,000 Convicts and a Woman, director Martin Scorsese scored a significant victory for producer Roger Corman with Boxcar Bertha, his take on the Great Depression’s many ravages upon the downtrodden. Yes, even the great Martin ...

When Vincent Price takes to the stage, fans of the Horror genre had best take notice.  His delivery is both campy and intoxicatingly brilliant.  There is no doubt in my mind that his classicisms of stage acting would have won over any hard-hearted critic.  His presence is  ...

Soft-core and vampirism go hand in hand.  Sometimes they even skip through parks together and skinny dip in ponds on moonless nights where the babes are bountiful and the skin around the neckline so very supple.  The creators of Count Yorga, Vampire know this ...

I will submit to you that no one my age can EVER forget how The Greatest American Hero actor takes the garbage out in House, the horror comedy directed by Steve Miner.  When his hot blonde neighbor stops to chat, the side foot kicks and absent-minded shovel sweeps ...

Holy Hairspray, Freaks and Geeks, a camp classic is reborn!!! Cue the cheesy synths.  Grab the saxophone, too.  It’s time for Vanity to hose herself down in director Gil Bettman’s Never Too Young To Die.  This film is easily the best thing John Stamos has ever done ...

Grab your groins, boys.  Demented is going to leave you wincing. The rape and revenge subgenre of the b-movie market is sometimes a mixed bag.  Dipping their hands deep into those murky waters, Scream Factory has pulled out and released on sparkling blu-ray 1980’s ...

Welcome back to the Interzone. This is not a place for those unfamiliar with the lasting effects of strong narcotics and paranoia. It is a place for the sad and lonely or quite possibly the sad junkie walking around wounded in an uncaring world. He strolls ...

I understand why Mill Creek is popular with some people. They offer low-rent movies at bargain basement prices. Hell, even their deluxe treatment – warts and all – of classic 1980’s television shows are priced below average. But all those cheapo bargains come with ...

Boobs!  Babes!  Bees!  Cue the insect-O-vision for this release!  Get “Also Sprach Zarathustra” ready to roll on the LP, too.  Boils and Ghouls, the killer bees are among us!  Walking and talking their way into our beds, no affair safe from their deadly stings! Oh, the  ...

American character actor Marc Lawrence is no stranger to genre fans.  Just Google an image of him and you will see that recognizable mug of his.  Your mind will immediately race to a series of “wasn’t he in…” recollections.  And, yes, you are probably correct in ...

Thank the Goddess for Severin Films.  With their new release of Cathy’s Curse, we can now dispose of our all our inferior Mill Creek DVD copies.  Severin, recognizing the power in the weirdness of this French-Canadian production, has seen fit to provide fans of the ...

Homegrown terror returns with the release of Retromedia’s The Wasp Woman/Beast from Haunted Cave.  This black-and-white double feature is absolutely killing it in my blu-ray player as both films – one directed by Roger Corman and one directed by Monte Hellman ...

Hey batter batter batter! Swing batter!!  Or is that, as Garth and Wayne used to suggest, schwing?!  With the amount of boobs and blood on the screen in this homerun, it’s hard not to see this tale of horror as anything but a win for the home team.  Peelers, with one confident ...

Poverty Row brings it again! Vintage horror films rarely get as good as the jewel uncovered here with The Film Detective’s release of a restored version of The Vampire Bat.  There is so much happening with this forward-thinking film that watching it – especially on blu-ray –  ...

Director Sophia Takal’s Always Shine is a disturbing tale of friendship gone wrong.  It is a twisted tale where the horror is mostly psychological but always edgy.  It is also the tale of female friendship and explores just how tense that territory can be, especially within ...