Toning down the pornography and turning up the violence, Joel Schumacher ’s 8mm remains a disturbing look at the uglier side of the pornography business. The film stars Nicolas Cage as private detecti...
There is a sudden peace next to the river here. Amidst all the brown colors in this barren jungle of mud, this one moment of fertile green breaks through: a native woman cradles her newly born baby. A...
. . . in which the Greeks go giallo. . . Greek filmmaker Nico Mastorakis ( The Zero Boys , Hired to Kill , Island of Death ) is widely known for his affinity and his production of B-grade films. Blind...
Sometimes a movie is so insanely cool that there can be no stopping its ascension through the gates of classic cinema. Let the Corpses Tan ( Laissez bronzer les cadavres ) is one of those movies. From...
The reverb. The chopped-up smooth jazz. The POWER and the hypnosis of it all. What I immediately LOVE about default.cfg’s i hope you get wet with the rain is the fact that what was once disposable bac...
The 6th Friend is not a new arrival to the horror-filled block of new titles. Perhaps you have heard of it? An uninvited guest torment estranged friends now held up in a vacation home that is isolated...
Los Angeles. Sometime in the not too distant future. This is where we start in writer/director Albert Pyun ’s Nemesis , a film that – thanks to a heavy spray of bullets and swagger – puts the PUNK in...
Produced for television by Aaron Spelling , T he House That Would Not Die is a one-time ABC Movie of the Week atmospheric creeper that, thanks to some old-fashioned style melodrama, doesn’t always wor...
Are you ready for it? Giant snakes. Dazzling fireworks displays. Confetti streamers. Glitter everywhere. Screaming fans who know every lyric. And costume changes galore. Heck, there are even choreogra...
Once again, I do NOT get the critical backlash against this Amblin -esque tale of a boy and his dog. A-X-L rocks. I mean, for those teens out there that are forever the outcast or picked on by the ass...
Stairway to Heaven or Highway to Hell? That is the question that writer/director Jenni Ivers ( The Cabin ) attempts to answer when the gene for violence has been discovered. Suddenly, mass hysteria ta...
Steve Martin ’s The Jerk remains a comedy classic. That is made clear thanks to Shout Select ’s brand-new 2K transfer of the 1979 hit film. Put this film in a time capsule already because, thanks to t...
Beginning with a crackling version of “ House of the Rising Sun ” playing in the background, Terror Tales gets off to a jolly GREAT start. We are immediately thrust into a family discussion as one tee...
Because Santa Claus only comes once a year, why not go back to the well? Silent Night, Deadly Night Part Two has to be one of the most fantastically awful sequels out there. Sure, sure, sure, it’s a p...
And you think your neighbors are weird?! With an introductory title card that is damn legendary, Don Dohler ’s Fiend begins. Certain legends have mentioned the Fiend. They talk of its red phantasmagor...