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-enca...
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...
"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...
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 surrea...
And the cradle will rock. Motherhood is a game changer. You don’t have to be a woman to recognize that. The additional stress of a newborn overwhelms many young mothers. In director Darrell Roodt’s Th...
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...
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...
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 ta...
The plane shoots out over the Pacific Ocean and angles ever so slightly. I look down. It is dark but you can see that there are piers below; long stretches of wood in man’s attempt to walk on water. T...
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 exti...
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...
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 afte...
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 previous...
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 becaus...
The Dead live... again! There’s no denying that Criterion’s handling of writer/director George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead just might be the most important blu-ray release of the year...