DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

Details: Created: 09 January 2022; Published: 09 January 2022; Written by Loron Hays

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“The worm is the spice! The spice is the worm!” David Lynch’s Dune might not be the director’s favorite movie-making experience. It also might not be on any science fiction fan’s top 10 list (although it probably should be). Those sentences alone do not make Lynch’s attempt at bringing ...

Details: Created: 10 November 2020; Published: 10 November 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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A minister-turned-serial killer in one of the most beautiful films ever made by Hollywood? Sure. Why not? When the results of exaggerated set designs and a directing style reminiscent of early silent cinema are as good as they are in The Night of the Hunter, no one is going to complain ...

Details: Created: 06 January 2022; Published: 06 January 2022; Written by Loron Hays

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The man with the straw hat is back! And so are his ghoulish finds in the windy city of Chicago. Watergate era television doesn’t get much better than with Kolchak: The Night Stalker. And that, my friends, is a certified fact. It begins in a dingy motel room. A cassette player is on. A disheveled ...

Details: Created: 21 January 2022; Published: 21 January 2022; Written by Frank Wilkins

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Ghostface is back! Though it has been ten real-life years since we last saw the sad-faced masked murderer on the big screen, he’s still terrorizing the teens of the fictional town of Woodsboro where all the killing began some 25 years ago in 1996’s Scream ...

Details: Created: 27 October 2020; Published: 27 October 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Was he trying to kiss or kill her on that hilltop? The verdict is still out as Suspicion makes its debut on blu-ray thanks to the efforts of the Warner Archive Collection. Alfred Hitchcock’s adaptation of Francis Iles's novel Before the Fact - which is as dissimilar as they...

Details: Created: 16 November 2021; Published: 16 November 2021; Written by Christopher Symonds

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1990’s Misery is one of the finest book to screen King adaptations of all time, in my humble opinion. While this new dearth of King adaptions continues unabated with varying degrees of success or abject failure (*cough: The Stand), no one has (as yet) touched it, or even broached remaking it ...

Details: Created: 04 January 2022; Published: 04 January 2022; Written by Loron Hays

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) “Can you still do the things with your eyes? You’re not crazy if you can still do the thing with your eyes.” I will NEVER forget the first time I saw Philip Kaufman’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I wouldn’t go outside in the rain for weeks afterwards thanks to the opening few minutes of ...

Details: Created: 21 October 2020; Published: 21 October 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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You can’t say that Hitchcock didn’t warn audiences of Hitler. He made several films with Hitler’s world view overhanging the shadows in each frame. But, after a decade in Hollywood, Alfred Hitchcock took that warning to a new level and gave audiences the ultimate romance between a ...

Details: Created: 24 December 2021; Published: 24 December 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Folk Horror. The very combination of the words suggest a clash of ideologies and, true to its nature, this seems to be its roots. It is a concept of evil so entwined with the land that it is damn near impossible to ever tear its threads clean. The voices in the woods; the pagan ceremonies on the ...

Details: Created: 18 February 2022; Published: 18 February 2022; Written by Frank Wilkins

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So, you think you’re carrying some emotional baggage? Wait until you see the giant gorilla-proof hardside suitcase of emotional trauma Lulu, the retired military dog, and former Army Ranger Briggs (Channing Tatum) are toting around in the new road trip buddy film called Dog. Masking many ...