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This theatre is damned! Sorry, Aronofsky, you aren’t as unique as was once thought. Étoile reveals all the reasons why. With Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake” at its center, Étoile – a rather enigmatic movie concerning ghosts, satanic possessions, and ballerinas – provides ...
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Surrender. Forget the common and known world. Once you enter the wild and wacky world of Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood, life, as you know it, becomes permanently altered. There is a dream but you are not the dreamer ...
Read more: Malatesta's Carnival of Blood (1973) - Blu-ray Review
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The damn doll at the center of this tale of kidnapping and insanity is an unsettling looking toy indeed. The curly-haired plastic child is always with the disturbed mother who is trying to get her daughter returned to her by any means necessary and, as the toy is oversized, it looks ...
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Released in 1984, Charles E. Sellier Jr’s Silent Night, Deadly Night did for Christmas what John Carpenter did for trick or treating: memorialize the day with a seriously twisted flick that continues to live on long past its expiration date. And here we are yet again with another ...
Read more: Silent Night, Deadly Night: Collector’s Edition (1984) - Blu-ray Review
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Survivor’s guilt is a real thing. Just ask Thom Eberhardt (Night of the Comet), the writer and director of Sole Survivor, a psychological twisted horror film that concerns itself with the lone survivor of a doomed commercial airliner and the haunted visions that follow her as she ...
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I’m unsure if there is anything creepier than adults, dressed as children, behaving exactly as one would expect kids to behave. For Fanny and Woody, playing on an old swing that goes out over the sea, theirs is to lure guests into their traps and then watch as they go ...
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There’s really nothing I can do to save you from yourself if the first five minutes of director Vicente Aranda’s The Blood Spattered Bride does absolutely nothing for you. Tarantino has alluded to its mesmerizing effectiveness, going so far as to name one of his chapters in ...
Read more: The Blood Spattered Bride (1972) - Blu-ray Review
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It happened again. Whatever side of the coin you land on when it comes to appreciating Twin Peaks: The Return and its use of Tulpas, the point is that it happened. And we should ALWAYS be grateful – no matter if there is another season or not – that Twin Peaks soldiered ...
Read more: Twin Peaks - A Limited Event Series: Season 3 (2017) - Blu-ray Review
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To this day, there remains something insanely special about director Brian De Palma’s Carrie. It is based on the once-discarded novel by Stephen King, but was painstakingly adapted for the screen by Lawrence D. Cohen. Cohen got everything about King’s first novel right ...
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September 26. To my knowledge that’s the only day Jeepers Creepers 3 was granted access to theaters. You know why and I’m not about to go into all the details surrounding writer/director Victor Salva (Powder, Jeepers Creepers) past here. The point is that ...
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When was the last time you bowled with a severed head? Fought off possessed humans with bowling pins? Freed an imp from a bowling trophy? If you never have, then Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama is the gutterball-minded flick for you. ...
Read more: Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama (1987) - Blu-ray Review
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Know this: Bone Tomahawk, the horror western that tore at our guts last year, was no fucking fluke. Writer/director S. Craig Zahler is the real deal when it comes to B-movie minded badass pictures and Vince Vaughn, bald and in shape as the drug dealing focal point of ...
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This movie, directed by Hell Night’s Tom DeSimone, is why I don’t go skiing. That white powder on the ground? It’s not always snow and, once discovered, it could land you in a prison for the baddest of bad little girls. And, trust me, I don’t want to belong to someone ...
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Blood and whipped cream. That's the party you can expect when Jungle Jimmy comes home. Mighty human meatballs! If the first few moments of Cut and Run don’t churn your stomach than you, my friend, are dead already. It’s a ferociously bloody and brutal opening ...
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The Half Moon Killer strikes again! First and foremost, there is the undying groove as Seven Blood Stained Orchids, a crimson-spattered film in which a brown-haired prostitute meets her nickel-sized fate in a cornfield, opens upon the streets in an expressionistic manner ...
Read more: Seven Blood Stained Orchids (1972) - Blu-ray Review
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Score another one for the good guys! Hell Night, being a fun-loving meditation on the very nature of gothic haunts and twisted terror by the man who brought you The Concrete Jungle (which I reviewed just last week), Chatterbox, and Reform School Girls, is finally back ...
Read more: Hell Night: Collector's Edition (1981) - Blu-ray Review
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“Alright, ladies, from here on out your machete is your best friend. Keep it clean. Keep it sharp. And keep it well oiled.” With those specific instructions, the burly guards of one sugarcane harvesting prison program in Costa Rica unleash Hell itself by arming the ...
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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 ...
Read more: Emmanuelle and the Deadly Black Cobra (1976) - Blu-ray Review
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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 ...
Read more: Matinee: Collector's Edition (1993) - Blu-ray Review
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“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 ...
Read more: Yor, The Hunter from the Future: The 35th Anniversary Edition (1983) - Blu-ray Review
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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 ...
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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 ...
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"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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
Read more: Fugitive Girls (1974) - Blu-ray Review - Limited Edition
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
Read more: Lucifer's Women/Doctor Dracula (1974, 1978) - Blu-ray Review
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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 ...
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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