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Drive-in flicks are as badass as they are clueless. I will argue to the death that it definitely takes talent to successfully pull off the B-movie. If you listen carefully to director Paul Kyriazi, it sounds like the cast and crew he assembled for Death Machines knew enough about ...
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And another caveman classic is upon us. Writer/director Val Guest’s When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth gets the Warner Archive Collection treatment for its blu-ray debut. Essentially, all that means is that the film gets an HD transfer because the big boys still don’t know how ...
Read more: When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970) - Blu-ray Review
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Make no bones about it, Horror Hounds, The Gate is a MUST-HAVE release from Lionsgate’s handling of its on-going Vestron Video Collector’s Series. Written by Michael Nankin and directed by Tibor Takács, The Gate was an unexpected success for New Century Vista Film Co. ...
Read more: The Gate: Vestron Video Collector's Series (1987) - Blu-ray Review
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Most people are offended by the slaughter of animals. They like their bacon, mind you, but simply cannot deal with a defenseless pig being stunned, shaved, and then sliced and diced into tasty little strips of bacon. Yummy! For a lot of people slaughterhouses represent ...
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“It’s too dark! It’s too daaaaaark,” screams an eight-year-old boy. Bouncing on his bed, he is need of some bedtime stories to ease on into sleep. Unfortunately, his creeper of an uncle, Peter (Scott Valentine) is the only adult in the house and his idea of bedtime stories is ...
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With Ken Gampu (The Gods Must Be Crazy) at the front of the action and the team in this soccer-centered exploitation classic, Joe Bullet arrives on home entertainment platforms for a whole new generation of badass cinema lovers to discover. Personally, I can think ...
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“Let's see him dance for his organ grinder now!” Holy Hell, Horror Hounds, does this flick ever stink! And by stink, I mean exactly that. Oh, don’t misinterpret me A*P*E is hysterical (and if drunk enough, I’m sure its even more of a riot), but mostly in the manner that suggests ...
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Alright, alright, alright. I get it. I TOTALLY understand why so many critics railed against this Indiana Jones wannabe action adventure flick when it was originally released. Starring Richard Chamberlain as Harrison Ford (kidding), King Solomon’s Mines is as shallow as B-movies ...
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Released here in America as Strange Behavior, director Michael Laughlin (Two-Lane Blacktop) goes for the jugular in Dead Kids. The murderous results are indeed an Ozploitation classic that many have never seen before. The frightful flick is full of surprises for attentive viewers ...
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Motorcycles and gas-gobbling b-grade movies go hand in hand. These are the high-octane flicks that cost little to make, yet remain unforgettable. Slap their images on the larger than life drive-in screen and walk away and producers can count their dollar bills all the way to ...
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Released by RKO Radio Pictures in 1933, director Felix E. Feist’s Deluge, a super-soaker of a destruction film, was long thought lost due to neglect. It was almost as if the film never existed. For the longest time, it seemed that only a ragged Italian print remained of this special ...
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The British go prehistoric with this wild adventure. One Million Years B.C. is a special effects bonanza with a variety of creatures created by the famed Ray Harryhausen himself. Of course, none of that matters in this film because all eyes are on the amazing special effects ...
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With stunning landscapes and a healthy dose of gore, Stake Land 2 stands tall right next to its heavily praised first outing. Not much has changed in the landscape, but the delivery is a bit more charged. In my review of the first film, I described the Stake Land atmosphere ...
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Nipple inpalements, even in a movie, are just too painful to watch. Bloody Moon is probably director Jesús Franco’s most accessible movie. I’m not saying it is his best movie, mind you, but – considering the unique weirdness of his vast body of work – it is a relative straight shooter ...
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“She’s not crazy, she’s being chased by a cheetah!” And in this way, Italian filmmaker Franco Prosperi brings animal attraction to a whole new level. Having broken free of the mondo documentaries he is partially responsible for, he went feral with his first horror film. Now ...
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The Survivor has finally made its landing on blu-ray. Never heard of it, eh? Honestly, I’m not surprised as it is an interesting experiement in horror that doesn't always do what it needs to do in order to be successful. British author James Herbert’s novel might have been ...
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Ah, the 1970s! There are few things more terrifying than cinematic vanity projects – especially when the results are far from fantastic. Vinegar Syndrome – now diving into Crown International’s backlog of obscure titles – presents two of actor Peter Carpenter’s more ...
Read more: Blood Mania/Point of Terror: Limited Edition (1970, 1971) - Blu-ray Review
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There’s a solar eclipse this Friday. There’s also a visible green comet streaking across the skies. It will, in addition, also be a full moon that night. If you are a teacher, get a substitute. If you are elsewhere in the public sphere, know that the only safe place will be under ...
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We’re baaaack!!!! Poltergeist III is a better idea than it is a movie. Maybe it should never have been connected to the franchise at all. But it was and – due to the sudden death of Heather O’Rourke – it became something everyone but the studio wanted to write off....
Read more: Poltergeist III: Collector’s Edition (1988) - Blu-ray Review
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Written, directed and produced by Ken Russell, The Lair of the White Worm remains a phallic-obsessed journey through an endless barrage of serpent double-entendres by way of Bram Stoker. Russell would have it no other way either. He was, after all, a self-confessed ...
Read more: The Lair of the White Worm: Vestron Video Collector's Series (1988) - Blu-ray Review
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It is a dark night. The sky is pregnant with distant stars. A lone fire lights the desert canyon wall. Two Native Americans sit next to it. There is chanting. Soon, spirits are inhaled. If the opening to Poltergeist II: The Other Side throws you for a loop, know that you aren’t ...
Read more: Poltergeist II: The Other Side (Collector’s Edition) (1986) - Blu-ray Review
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Exploitation filmmaking rarely gets ANY trashier than with 1980’s Don’t Answer the Phone. Shot in and around Los Angeles, it is definitely one of the scuzziest flicks produced during the beginning of that century, yet it somehow left its mark on people and, however surprisingly ...
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From the brassy swing of the Perez Prado mambo to the hot pink splash of the movie’s title against the front of an Oldsmobile, the opening to director Bob Balaban’s Parents suggests this horror film is not like the others. Parents, with its witty dialogue, its critical lens, and ...
Read more: Parents: Vestron Video Collector’s Series (1989) - Blu-ray Review
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Japanese film director and screenwriter Kinji Fukasaku (Battle Royale) has certainly left his mark on filmmaking. Notable for his extensive use of shaky camera techniques in the 1970s, his influences on film spread worldwide over his lifetime with his final film being ...
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King Tut, how’d you get so funky? Comedian Steve Martin certainly knew the reasons why. Famed B-movie producer Roger Corman thought he knew why and offered this slow-moving excavation of the 18th dynasty pharaoh’s tomb to Dimitri Villard to oversee. The PG rated results ...
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Dun Dun Duuuuun! Even the island of Maui is not immune Roger Corman’s monster-making machine. Up from the Depths is a salvage film. Rescued from the Philippines by legendary B-movie producer Roger Corman, a lot of the film was already in the can before Corman ...
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Alienation, thy name is David Bowie. The Man Who Fell to Earth is one of those movies so incredibly odd that it exists in a sacred sphere that is outside of time itself. It has, in fact, improved with age becoming more emotionally impactful as David Bowie, playing the part ...
Read more: The Man Who Fell to Earth: Limited Collector’s Edition (1976) - Blu-ray Review
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Only the weirdest of the weird gravitate toward the slasher comedy. Every weirder are those who fall in line with the goofy sequels when the satire has all but dried up. Scream Factory, knowing that its rabid fanbase of freaks largely fall into the latter group of collectors ...
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Roger Corman’s Death Race 2050 is the film America needs right now. Loaded with comments about where we are headed as a nation, the b-movie – a new release from New Horizons and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment – races across a post-apocalyptic future ...
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The odds of being remembered were never in Band of the Hand’s favor. Most people only recall the explicit violence and the pop-minded title song that Dylan wrote and performed with The Heartbreakers. I guess the odds never really mattered anyway as they were ...
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- Suicide and the Hollywood Sign - The Girl Who Jumped from the Hollywood Sign
- 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