DVD Reviews
- Details
- By Loron Hays
I’m not sure anyone should hold a gun to the back of Sid Haig’s legendary bald head. There’s always Hell to pay later. Thankfully, the lasers in The Aftermath are not set to stun. Long neglected, it is now time to welcome a true cult ...
- Details
- By Loron Hays
Half-man, half-sea serpent; all thrashing rubber! Filmmaker Harry Essex is at it once again. Yes, the writer of Creature from the Black Lagoon and It Came from Outer Space is once again striking fear into the hearts of ecologists with his stock footage-padded warning about ...
- Details
- By Loron Hays
All we wanted was a bigger and healthier tomato, what we got was a ripe parody that paved the way for such comedy classics like Airplane! and all the other beloved and relatively tasteless gag-filled comedies that populated the scene at the time of its release ...
Read more: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978) - Blu-ray Review
- Details
- By Loron Hays
Being in the wrong place at the wrong time just might save your life. Martel "Too Sweet" Gordone (Leon Isaac Kennedy) has an axe to grind. If he has to do it against the skulls of the two bikers who kick dust and sand up into his makeshift tent while he sleeps ...
- Details
- By Loron Hays
Class of 1999 is, of course, the film that reveals the truth behind the magic of Pam Grier's glorious breasts. The scene, happening in a school hallway after she takes down two gang leaders on their motorbikes with one swift motion, is both awe inspiring and cringeworthy ...
Read more: Class of 1999: Vestron Video Collector's Series (1990) - Blu-ray Review
- Details
- By Loron Hays
Anarchy and hedonism! The Romantic writers, according to this fictionalized account of the creation of Shelley's Frankenstein and Polidari's The Vampyre, were a bunch of cock-gobbling druggies. This is probably true. And, as the sex is as rampant as the wild visual ...
Read more: Gothic: Vestron Video Collector’s Series (1986) - Blu-ray Review
- Details
- By Loron Hays
She’s smart. She’s sexy. She’s new in town and she’s all sorts of sweet sixteen. She also likes making it with boys on sacred Native American burial grounds in the desert. What a way to get your rocks off, honey! The bad thing for the boys, though, is that they have a ...
- Details
- By Loron Hays
Always pay your cab drivers, kids. That’s one lesson to take from watching Code Red’s Blu-ray release of The Apartment on the 13th Floor, a psychological horror film about a slaughterhouse worker who loses his shit one night and just snaps. Eventually, he finds it ...
Read more: The Apartment on the 13th Floor (1971) - Blu-ray Review
- Details
- By Loron Hays
Mutant cats, sabertooth rats, and gold lamé outfits! Nothing good can ever come from an evil that’s been buried for over 2000 years. That, my friends, is something that you can take to the bank. But what if that ancient horror found its way into a Blaxploitation martial arts flick?...
- Details
- By Loron Hays
This Italian-Spanish co-production is a shoddy horror film. Know that first. Panic is; however, quite interesting in its own way, weaving a tale about scientists who create something they cannot even hope to control through failed bacteria experiments, as it has more ...
- Details
- By Loron Hays
Four films in, I think it is safe to say that Honey Island Swamp is getting crowded. Writer/Director Adam Green’s Hatchet series just crash-landed (and I mean that both literally and figuratively). Hitting its stride in the second and third installment, Victor Crowley, an unneeded ...
- Details
- By Loron Hays
Artsy kink. This is what awaits you inside one of director Jesús "Jess" Franco best and most masterfully shot films. With Spanish-born filmmaker Jess Franco’s eerie feature, The Diabolical Dr. Z, things begin to get sexy and strange. Truthfully, there’s no going back either as ...
- Details
- By Loron Hays
Holy Hatchets! The moving severed limbs of one deceased wife attacking the people who plotted her basement murder are all you need to see in order to believe in the IMPACT of Amicus Productions. Chop. Chop. Chop. ...
- Details
- By Loron Hays
Even primal therapy was never this raw. Produced and directed by Don Jones, the opening montage of china dolls set to a really cheesy song that, simply put, is beyond tortuous for its audience is just about the most disquieting way to begin this lurid tale of madness and murder ...
- Details
- By Loron Hays
When this film was originally released NINE YEARS AGO, we really wanted writer/director Sam Raimi to be back in the business of scaring the pants off of us and making us howl with laughter. We got exactly what we wanted with Drag Me to Hell even if Raimi remained relatively ...
Read more: Drag Me to Hell: Collector's Edition (2018) - Blu-ray Review
- Details
- By Loron Hays
While it is way too slick in comparison to the first two Texas Chainsaw Massacre films, New Line Cinema’s rebranding of the series – as confusing as that opening scrawl is – remains of interest because, originally set to be released as the 1980s came to a close, this film would ...
Read more: Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990) - Blu-ray Review
- Details
- By Loron Hays
Code Red does fans of the Drive-In a very cool favor with the release of the Chaos and Don’t Look in the Basement double feature. While Don’t Look in the Basement has been released on Blu-ray previously, never before has the cult classic been presented in a twofer ...
Read more: Chaos/Don't Look in the Basement (2005, 1973) - Blu-ray Review
- Details
- By Loron Hays
A shell of a building. An empty room. And a line of monitors all tuned in to the same dead channel: a close-up of a corpse. It is the face of Don Luigi Costa, a religious man who gave up his vows after his horrible diagnosis. How bizarre! How eerie! How utterly unusual! What ...
- Details
- By Loron Hays
Truthfully, New Wave would be nothing without certain bands. When I say DEVO you say what, ghouls and boils? The outfits? The music? Or is it the realization that Mark Mothersbaugh, DEVO’s lead singer and untiring Hollywood composer, is a certified genius? Because Mothersbaugh ...
- Details
- By Loron Hays
When in the jungle, it would be wise of happily married (and still sexually active) couples to actually keep the noises of their lovemaking down. It might attract all kinds of beasts once thought extinct…like the brontosaurus family at the center of Baby: Secret of ...
Read more: Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985) - Blu-ray Review
- Details
- By Loron Hays
Cannibalism! Purification! And really shitty southern accents! Keep on giving us the EuroSleeze, Severin Films! Banned in 38 countries for the dick slicing, women raping, and snake eating scenes of tasteless trash, Eaten Alive! finally gets a proper HD release. And I couldn't ...
- Details
- By Loron Hays
Out of the fire and into the meltdown! Threads finally makes its HD debut! Attack warning: RED! Attack warning: RED! Start the sirens. The bombs have been launched. You know it’s serious when classic works in our collective art history starts getting moved into ...
- Details
- By Loron Hays
Picture it: composer Vic Mizzy, writer Robert Bloch (Psycho), director William Castle, actress Barbara Stanwyck and actor Robert Taylor; all together in the same film. Already I’m in love with this thriller from 1964. William Castle’s The Night Stalker is packed with a million ...
- Details
- By Loron Hays
It begins with the longest piss ever. And it ends with a stuffed cat floating in a Florida swamp. Everything in between this trippy story about two hippy chicks hitching a ride is both sexy and surreal. There is a bizarre atmosphere surrounding this feature and it practically ...
- Details
- By Loron Hays
"Hi, I'm Max Keller." It's how each episode of this short-lived but beloved series kicks off. And fans will be happy to know that Kino Lorber has done them proud with this 3-disc HD release, featuring newly remastered versions of some of ...
Read more: The Master: The Complete Series (1984) - Blu-ray Review
- Details
- By Loron Hays
Aliens in drag serving up a hot mess of sexploitation stew? A thousand times YES! Zombies from outer space have landed and they are in search of, at least in this movie, leggy lesbian protein packs on two legs. Luckily, the earth is loaded with these “easy” targets – especially ...
- Details
- By Loron Hays
Gloves?! You want gloves? I’ll give you gloves!I don’t know when I first came to know the might and marvel of the swift-footed Penitentiary trilogy but I can tell you it was on a crummy clamshell-encased VHS copy ...
- Details
- By Loron Hays
With this film, the mythos of The Gate closed for good. I love forced perspective but, man, this one is bit of a letdown. Directed by Tibor Takács, Gate II is a film that lives in the shadows of its gloriously entertaining predecessor. It has big shoes to fill and, unfortunately, it can’t ...
- Details
- By Loron Hays
The Sect (also known as The Devil’s Daughter) proves that schoolteachers (of which I am one) probably shouldn’t be armed with a gun, let alone drive a car. Weird shit happens to us. The misadventure contained within The Sect, though, takes the cake thanks to a ...
- Details
- By Loron Hays
What’s in the basket? Easter Eggs? Nope. Just my not-so conjoined wart of a twin! Wanna looksee?! Basket Case, my fellow fiends and gore-gore ghouls, is the demented story of one set of twins who simply do not play by the rules of the natural order. But you already knew that and, I suspect ...
Read more: Basket Case: Limited Edition (1982) - Blu-ray Review
More Articles ...
Page 100 of 119
Movie Reviews
Morbidly Hollywood
- Colorado Street Suicide Bridge
- Death of a Princess - The Story of Grace Kelly's Fatal Car Crash
- Joaquin Phoenix 911 Call - River Phoenix - Viper Room
- Screen Legend Elizabeth Taylor Dies at 79
- 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