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God bless Samurai Cop. Seriously. Ranking alongside The Room and Troll 2, Samurai Cop rounds out a trio of films so fucking bad that they are unyieldingly hilarious. You want to set the tone of a party right? Rent this bitch. The result of stitching together an action movie ...
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“But, Miss Hammond... Helga! No Hammond ever ventures into the rocky lane on a foggy night,” is the warning. It’s the siren song of an entire family line. You see, the Hammond family IS cursed. Some might say they are cursed by wealth. Others will suggest it is ...
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Nevermind the fact that the theme song – performed by Yes’ Jon Anderson – plays something like four times throughout the movie. Please ignore the mess the film leaves as questions go unanswered. And, for the love of all that is holy, just appreciate what John ...
Read more: Biggles: Adventures in Time (1986) - Blu-ray Review
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“I’m a hungry man!” When Vestron Pictures originally released C.H.U.D. 2: Bud the C.H.U.D. back in 1988, they knew exactly the type of movie they had on their hands. And it wasn’t a horror flick. The sheer lunacy of following up a horror film with a straight comedy might ...
Read more: C.H.U.D. 2: Bud the C.H.U.D. (1988) - Blu-ray Review
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Melinda Clarke, who stars in Brian Yuzna’s Return of the Living Dead 3, might just be the hottest zombie ever to grace the silver screen. She is, after all, the original living dead girl. She’s a wild girl, complete with flaming red hair and ice-cold eyes. Her edgy personality and ...
Read more: Return of the Living Dead 3 (1992) - Blu-ray Review
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It is the first film to receive an X rating solely for its violent content. I Drink Your Blood is also a masterpiece of the drive-in. Its debut on blu-ray, thanks to Grindhouse Releasing, is an important one. It is not to be missed. Writer/director David Durston (ABC’s Tales of ...
Read more: I Drink Your Blood: Limited Horror Hypo Edition (1971) - Blu-ray Review
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Windows up. Doors locked. Such is the paranoid view that David Cronenberg’s Rabid presents in his commercial follow-up to his debut, Shivers. Quebec and Montréal, due to a highly suspect procedure received by Rose, the lead character actress Marilyn Chambers ...
Read more: Rabid: Collector's Edition (1977) - Blu-ray Review
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While the results are far from perfect, The Neptune Factor probably began its life as an imagined undersea adventure with some unexpected moments of the bizarre. It’s certainly creative with what it offers, but the results are beyond disappointing. The film cuts its characters ...
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It came from outer space to eat the living! With this tag, Fred Olen Ray’s The Alien Dead arrived in theaters. This was his first theatrically released film and, while it underperformed, there’s no denying that a legacy for schlock was born. While the B-movie disappeared ...
Read more: The Alien Dead: Limited Signed Edition (1978) - Blu-ray Review
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Jack Frost has been granted an extended life, Ghouls and Boils! With more schlock than shock, this earnest slasher is truly a gift to manunkind. Wait. Don’t tell me you’ve never heard of this one, fellow freaks. No, it does NOT star Michael Keaton as a harmonica-blowing ...
Read more: Jack Frost: Limited Edition Lenticular Artwork (1997) - Blu-ray Review
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“Get me off this FUCKING show,” mutters one contestant on the television game show Live or Die. With contests like Dance of the Seven Boners and one involving transporting two heavy gas canisters through rings of fire, it is the most controversial show to ever be filmed ...
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Reputation Road, here we come! With that sentence, a young man’s wildest sexual fantasies come true. Overlooking Los Angeles from high in the hills, Kyle’s (Steven Boggs) attempts to get laid finally come to fruition thanks to the support of those zany fantasy-fulfilling ...
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Now, THIS is how you successfully pull off a B-movie. The Waxwork series of movies - Waxwork & Waxwork II: Lost in Time – were made during a very special time in the horror genre, all thanks to the video market. Celluloid magic was everywhere and distribution deals ...
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When Canadians do horror, good things tend to happen. The Pit, directed by Lew Lehman, is a great example of that statement. Released in 1981, this low budget horror film tells the tale of a weird kid who stumbles upon something stranger than himself deep in the ...
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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 ...
Read more: Child's Play: Collector's Edition (1988) - Blu-ray Review
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To the outside eye, The Astro-Zombies is probably not regarded as the greatest of monster flicks. Clocking in at 91-minutes, the b-grade entertainment at the center of this Mad Scientist tale is far too long. Several scenes meander in and out of all rational thought as ...
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I am not a huge fan of Horror maestro Wes Craven. I tend to check out of the whole adoration club when the discussion turns to his most recent offerings. Yes, Scream included. I just think that, of all the names in horror, his filmography is one of the spottiest. ...
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Dude. Talk about a blast from the past. Duuuuude. Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure is already a comedy classic from the latter part of the 1980s. Had it failed to connect with audiences, there would be no Beavis & Butthead. There would be no Wayne’s World. While we ...
Read more: Bill & Ted’s Most Excellent Collection (1989 – 1991)
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Vinegar Syndrome isn’t through with writer/director Richard Casey just yet. Hot off the heels of their “loverly” HD handling of Horror House on Highway 5 comes his second feature, Hellbent. This punkish fever dream is awash with neon splashes and a hyper-realized set ...
Read more: Hellbent: Limited Edition (1988) - Blu-ray Review
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Hands down, It is the best killer clown movie around to ever roll out onto ANY screen. The miniseries itself might be a tad uneven, but nothing beats Tim Curry’s performance as the killer clown haunting one small town in Maine. I am just going to assume that NO ONE – especially ...
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Cruising rather comfortably on its low budget, Hammer Horror director Terence Fisher’s The Earth Dies Screaming has one of the fiercest and most engaging openings to every kick off a science fiction flick. The Earth Dies Screaming literally begins with THE END of the ...
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Writer/director Robert Hiltzik’s notorious slasherfest has returned to stalk the shelves right in time to celebrate the summer season. No need to pack your overnight bags, though. There’s no coming back from this batshit crazy camping experience. What will be seen can ...
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The B-movie. The Creature Feature. The Creepy Crawlies Double Feature. Whatever your name for the horror genre’s offshoot is, Scream Factory – with their twofer release of Food of the Gods and Frogs – is who you’ll want to thank if you are into (like me) these low-grade ...
Read more: Food of the Gods/Frogs (Double Feature) - Blu-ray Review
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Mutant mayhem strikes doubly hard in Scream Factory’s twofer release of 1977’s Empire of the Ants and Jaws of Satan, originally released in 1981. One flick has mutant ants growing as big as people in it and the other features a morbid python possessed by Satan himself. Both ...
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A classic is reborn! When it comes to cult films, Spider Baby, written and directed by Jack Hill, might just be the best example of the term’s definition. The film is a low-budget classic that nails its horror and its comedic elements like none other. While Hill – the director of Switchblade ...
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The defining moment in Kevin Connor’s The Land That Time Forgot occurs when a Triceratops, after protecting her eggs from a villainously horned Ceratosaurus, is defeated by the real predators: man. Based on a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Connor’s film has always ...
Read more: The Land That Time Forgot (1975) - Blu-ray Review
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Those barking mad hounds of horror over at Scream Factory are back at it once again with their latest creature double feature blu-ray release. This time they take the mutations under the water with 1976’s Tentacles and 1962’s Reptilicus. As much as I am a solid sucker ...
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Before you start struttin’ around town, wearin’ your high heels, and thinkin’ you’re hot shit, just remember that Coffy did it first. Before Alicia Keys sang about a girl on fire and before Bryce Dallas Howard earned street cred for outrunning dinosaurs in high heels there was ...
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Her name is Foxy Brown. Revenge is what she wants. Blaxploitation icon Pam Grier stars in Jack Hill’s Foxy Brown which delivers on what it promises: more sex and more violence. Written and directed by Hill, the film is definitely a step down from what he did with for ...
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Scarecrows, written and directed by William Wesley, is positive proof that, yes, 19-year-olds can create effective special effects and creature designs. Originally filmed in 1985 but released in 1988, this supernatural horror film involving bank-robbing mercenaries up ...
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