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- By Loron Hays
Suburban Sasquatch is what happens when a nubile Native American on her vision quest, a budding reporter, and some dimwitted cops join forces in order to stop the rampage of a bloodthirsty bigfoot in a local park. Suburban Sasquatch is completely ridiculous, over the top, and so unbelievably ...
Read more: Suburban Sasquatch: Collector’s Edition (2004) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Christopher Symonds
It seems impossible that there was any year where I didn’t see Chevy Chase litter his house with enough Christmas lights to be seen from space. But I was in fact fourteen when this now Christmas staple debuted in 1989 (a stellar year for classics of the future). Being a little Aussie, the concept ...
Read more: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) - 4K UHD Review
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- By Emily Strong
“Why do people have to love people, anyway?” By the time the 1960’s rolled around in America, the infamous Production Code that was implemented in the 1930’s was clearly losing its grip in Hollywood. The years of filmmakers sliding in double-meaning lines of dialogue and skirting ...
Read more: The Apartment 4K Restoration (1960) - 4K UHD Blu-ray Review
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There are few moments in the 1980’s output of horror titles as effective as the opening minutes of Tom Holland’s Child’s Play. Serial-killer Charles Lee Ray (Brad Dourif), wearing a righteous brown trench coat, is being chased through the dingy streets of south Chicago by homicide detective Mike ...
Read more: Child’s Play - 4K Ultra HD + Blu-Ray Collector’s Edition Review (1988)
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- By Christopher Symonds
What a month! Not only did I get to extol the virtues of The Lost Boys on UHD this Halloween, but what should arrive in the mail but Tom Holland’s equally classic 1985 vampire flick, Fright Night. The 80s is known for many classic horror flicks, most of which—including this one—have been remade ...
Read more: Fright Night (1985) - Steelbook 4K UHD + Blu-ray Review
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- By Emily Strong
“Talk to me later. I’m killing myself.” With a noose hanging around his neck, dramatically (and quite insincerely) calling out the name of the gorgeous chambermaid he is in love with, this is probably one of the most brilliantly understated ways of introducing Bob Hope’s title character in Monsieur ...
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“Dirkie, Dirkie, Wild Turkey.” This might be the movie you have been waiting for Midnight Marauders! Especially if you love to see cacti stab at people wandering the desert as they attempt to free themselves from the guilt they feel for murdering their teacher. The cacti have ...
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- By Emily Strong
“Please let me keep this memory, just this one.” What do you get when you combine the weird and innovative nature of a Charlie Kaufman script with the daring visuals of director Michel Gondry? Obviously, the only answer is the cult classic Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. With its totally ...
Read more: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) - 4K UHD Blu-ray Review
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- By Emily Strong
Cue the music and pull back the “safety curtain.” You are in for a fun one. It is one of the most over-looked projects in Alfred Hitchcock’s filmography, but Stage Fright, has no shortage of suspense from the master himself. In this piece of theater, virtually every character plays the roles of ...
Read more: Stage Fright: The Warner Archive Collection (1950) - Blu-ray Review
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The water! It’s the goddamn water! From the very beginning, there is something very forward-thinking about 1964’s The Flesh Eaters. It is as if the black-and-white creature feature absolutely predicted what teens and young adults would be wanting to see on the matinee silver screens as one ...
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- By Christopher Symonds
1989 would see the last of a trilogy of films that Halloween fans now dub The Thorn Trilogy. This would be the last Halloween film to feature the character of Jamie Lloyd (not played by Danielle Harris sadly) and the first sequel to bring back original Halloween kid Tommy Doyle (with Ant Man ...
Read more: The Halloween 4K Collection 1995-2002 4K UHD + Blu-ray - Review
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- By Emily Strong
“I like being shipwrecked!” As far as Hitchcock romantic comedies go, well…you probably did not even know one existed! (I did not even know one existed). In fact, the whole idea that Alfred Hitchcock has quite a few comedies credited to his filmography seems more unnerving than any of his ...
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The beach is alive with the sound of screaming!? You’ve heard about Beach Blanket Bingo, well, now - thanks to Scream Factory’s love of all things schlocky and science fiction - get a load of what washes ashore to party with the rest of the beach bums in The She-Creature, a low budget ...
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“That’s what it is all about: rust and decay, ya know. But within that are warm houses and cars.” Originally released in November of 1999, American Movie, director Chris Smith’s documentary about Wisconsin-based filmmaker Mark Borchardt’s trials in getting his feature length independent ...
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Loretta Young is a wholesome brunette no more! As a naive blonde bombshell, this one-time gangster’s moll finds herself with a deep, dark secret. Because of You is the film that launched Tony Bennett's career as the title song became his first Number 1 hit, but it is also progressive for its era ...
Read more: Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema, Volume V: Because of You (1952) - Blu-ray Review
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“Very good. You know your alphabet.” Life in the big apple can be so . . . draining. Literally. For the lawyer at the center of this black comedy, it begins with a bat flying around in his apartment and it ends with him discovering his own arousal while in mortal danger with the same damn rodent. ...
Read more: Vampire’s Kiss - MVD Rewind Collection (1989) - Blu-ray Review
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The more things change, the more they stay the same. The Munsters originally ran from 1964 to 1966 and, as it was often cheap and messy, the humor came across in fits and starts as monster caricatures tried to impersonate traditional mother and father roles found in American sitcoms ...
Read more: The Munsters: Collector’s Edition (2022) - Blu-ray Review
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Director Jack Arnold was Universal’s go-to guy when they wanted a quick hit. He proved himself mightily as he churned out classics like It Came from Outer Space (1953), Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), Revenge of the Creature (1955), Tarantula (1955), and The Incredible Shrinking ...
Read more: Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema, Volume V: Outside the Law (1956) - Blu-ray Review
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Shaft in 4K?! With a new digital restoration, too? Can you dig it? Funked up by Isaac Hayes’ incredible score and theme, Richard Roundtree is back in action as Harlem P.I. John Shaft in this signature blaxploitation offering from director Gordon Parks (Shaft, Shaft’s Big Score). The character's ...
Read more: Shaft: The Criterion Collection (1971) - 4K UHD Review
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In which Producer Harve Bennett and Director Nicholas Meyer climb aboard the USS Enterprise, adding a revenge element to the classic crew as the consequences of an episode in the original series entitled “Space Seed” comes full circle. It is, in fact, 1967 meeting 1982 and the scenario works ...
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Hell’s Kitchen in Manhattan was, at one time, a place of filth and absolute poverty. Back then, it was known as one of the roughest neighborhoods in Manhattan; a better place to be from than to be in. Bordered by the Hudson River on the west, Eighth Avenue on the east, 59th Street on the ...
Read more: Angels with Dirty Faces: Warner Archive Collection (1938) - Blu-ray Review
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“Hands off, or your hand is ham and I’m the slicer!” Filipino filmmaker Eddie Romero might be dead, but his movies - being cheapo depot horror offerings, exploitative skin flicks, and action vehicles, live on. Such is the case with Savage Sisters, an exploitation flick in title alone, which he directed in 1974, but ...
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- By Emily Strong
Ah, yes, the American Dream. It’s what has attracted countless immigrants to the land of opportunity, right? But shortly after arriving, there are so many instances in which said immigrants face the harsh reality that the American Dream seems to be a myth. This type of reality, while seldom told ...
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Think it’s just the rainy day blues that has this mind reader down in the dumps? Think again. Based on a Cornell Woolrich novel, Night Has A Thousand Eyes might be classic B-movie material (due to its supernatural sources), but the film is both poetic and engaging as one mind reader ...
Read more: Night Has A Thousand Eyes (1948) - Blu-ray Review
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Attention all shoppers! It’s going to be a crappy day when Sewer Gators is released! You mark your calendars now! June 3rd can’t get here fast enough. Don’t believe me? Go here and wait for the Sewer Gators to appear themselves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xahw04ZDgTM or ...
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- By Emily Strong
“I’m not an animal!” I don’t need to tell you that Robert De Niro is arguably one of the best and most committed actors to ever live. I don’t need to tell you that Joe Pesci’s mere presence in a countless number of films is nothing short of iconic. And I certainly don’t need to tell you that ...
Read more: Raging Bull (1980) 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray - Review
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- By Emily Strong
“Immoral women shouldn't work in banks, you know. They might corrupt the young dollar bills.” Small towns can be so wonderful, can’t they? Everybody knows one another so well. It can be like having one giant family with the sense of comfort and love gushing from the community. Well, why ...
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The zombie apocalypse is among us. You can either die easy or die fighting! Opening with the famous OUR FEATURE PRESENTATION, scratchy sound and all, and the panther ...
Read more: Hell Of The Screaming Undead (2021) - Movie Review
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- By Christopher Symonds
There are literally thousands of vampire films out there. In the sea of bloodsucker tales, it is truly a special occurrence when one stands above the crowd. Stepping away from any genre at all, it’s even rarer when a confluence of director and script produces something that is so perfectly blended ...
Read more: The Lost Boys (1984) – 4KUHD + Blu-ray + Digital Review
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Sometimes the good country air can be harmful to your health. Such is the frightening territory of this atmospheric thriller which sees a small-town recluse turn murderer. The woman projects nothing but EVIL while, at the same time, being nothing but pleasant in conversation. She’s a ...
Read more: The Spider Woman Strikes Back (1946) - Blu-ray Review
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- The Amityville Horror House
- The Black Dahlia Murder - The Death of Elizabeth Short
- The Death of Actress Jane Russell
- The Death of Brandon Lee
- The Death of Chris Farley
- The Death of Dominique Dunne
- The Death of George Reeves - the Original Superman