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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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