DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

Details: Created: 07 November 2020; Published: 07 November 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Shot in black-and-white on a shoestring budget of nickels and dimes, Lake Michigan Monster is - at once - alarmingly successful in its goal of sending-up the whole monster hunting motif in horror films as a wronged sea captain living in a lighthouse mounts a hilarious hunt involving a ...

Details: Created: 24 March 2020; Published: 24 March 2020; Written by Michelle Duy

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There’s a shocking, telling moment late in the movie Harriet (2019). Referring to a group of escaped slaves, the villain Gideon (Joe Elwyn) calls them “three bucks and a female with foal.” Of course, he does much worse throughout the movie. But that ...

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Details: Created: 03 November 2020; Published: 03 November 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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From dry deserts to tropical islands, Tremors shows no signs of stopping anytime soon, but - if this is the end of the road for the franchise - it goes out on a hell of a high note thanks to Tremors: Shrieker Island ...

Details: Created: 20 March 2020; Published: 20 March 2020; Written by Frank Wilkins

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The latest iteration of Bob Clark’s ultra-gory yule tide slasher, Black Christmas, promises a modern take on the cult horror classic that stoked the fears of every sorority girl back in 1974 ...

Details: Created: 01 November 2020; Published: 01 November 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Greetings, Starfighter! Arrow Video invited you to watch this 1984 science fiction classic in a way never before thought possible. With a newly restored 4k scan of the original negative and the 4.1 sound mix originally created for the 70mm release, The Last Starfighter returns to your living ...

Details: Created: 24 February 2020; Published: 24 February 2020; Written by Christopher Symonds

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I’ll start this review with a question. 4K has been out for a few years now, and although this reviewer has only recently dipped into this new resolution, I wonder why companies like Arrow are still going to the effort of releasing restored definitive and feature-laden movies from days gone by, at scanned ...

Details: Created: 24 October 2020; Published: 24 October 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Watch polio get pulverized by a primate! When a circus burns down, a mustached Boris Karloff, as Dr. Bernard Adrian, finds himself battling a loose ape in his laboratory. What? What? What. You heard me. It’s one of the wildest scenes - and maybe the best scene ...

Details: Created: 22 November 2019; Published: 22 November 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

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There’s a key scene about halfway through A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood in which cynical journalist Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys), utters under his breath, "he's about the nicest person I've ever met.” Of course, Lloyd is talking about Fred Rogers, the host of ...

Details: Created: 23 October 2020; Published: 23 October 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Housesitter . . . The Night They Saved Siegfried’s Brain has an interesting history and it makes for a great lead. Originally filmed in Kalamazoo in 1987, this horror/comedy sat unfinished for over 30 years because no one wanted to deal with it. Now, thanks to Skywalker Sound and Paramount ...

Details: Created: 08 November 2019; Published: 08 November 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

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Hollywood needs more war films. Despite the pig-headed durability of the world’s war machine providing an unending supply of source material, the genre has largely become abandoned with only the occasional passion project popping up from time to time around Veteran’s Day. For decades, the underserved ...

Details: Created: 15 October 2020; Published: 15 October 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Planet Drool, here we come . . . again! This is what happens when you go in expecting worse. You are constantly surprised. Max (Cayden Boyd) has had an incredible summer. He’s made new friends and is super stoked to tell all his friends at school about them. The problem is their ...

Details: Created: 01 November 2019; Published: 01 November 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

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Interior: DARK, GIN-SOAKED MOVIE THEATER CAMERA - SLOW PAN LEFT TO RIGHT. It was a dark and stormy night. Flickering frames of light pierced the smoky darkness, casting shadows on the tattered silver screen. The projector’s jittery rays revealed the forlorn faces of a checked-out audience while the stormy night’s deafening ...

Details: Created: 11 October 2020; Published: 11 October 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Hi-yo, Silver . . . . Bullet, away! Arriving just in time for our quarantined Halloween is Curse of the Undead, an oft neglected B-grade horror/western about a vampiric gunfighter (played by Michael Pate, Hondo) and the trouble he kicks up when he arrives in a small town and falls for ...

Details: Created: 04 November 2019; Published: 04 November 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

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There are few directors out there that have the distinction of making sequels to hit films that not only reach the quality of the original, but surpass it. James Cameron is one of them. He is an auteur that never rested on his laurels, always coming at things with a fresh take for a follow up and never settling for ...

Details: Created: 08 October 2020; Published: 08 October 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Dark Infinity and genre filmmaker Dustin Ferguson (who is comparable only to Roger Corman when it comes to impressive B-movie offerings) have yet another horror hit on their hands with the FIVE terrifying stories absolutely crawling and clawing their way through the innards of Tales for the Campfire 3 ...