BADass SINema Unearthed - Blu-ray Review

…in which Canada makes its very first wide-release horror movie. Wait. What?! It’s true. It wasn’t until the early 1960s that our polite friends up north decided to tingle their spines with the psychological art-house 3D terror of director Julian Roffman’s The Mask (AKA   ...

Bruce Dern attaching two heads to a monkey.  Hell, Dern attaching two heads to anything!!!  If that image doesn’t get you excited for a schlock film full of nastiness, then I doubt little else will.  You should probably stop reading and click somewhere else. Still here?  Okay ...

Genre fans rejoice!  The creature feature B-movie category just got a brand spankin’ new addition to its roster of gore, charm, and cheese.  Stung, directed by Benni Diez, is just the type of garden party turned story of survival you’ve been waiting for.  Full of genetically-mutated   ...

While considered a rather weak film serial when compared to other flicks of the era, Flying Disc Man from Mars – a 12-part science fiction offering from Republic – is a solid example of just how silly and fun the format was for moviegoers.  Olive Films, who released The Invisible  ...

Five men board a train. They don’t know each other. They hardly acknowledge one another until a sixth joins them in the same small compartment. Little do they know that their final destination is linked together by this mysterious figure and the tarot cards he carries with  ...

Billy Zane.  Billy Zane.  Billy “You fucking ho-dunk, po-dunk, well then there motherfuckers!” Zane.  Demon Knight, the first “Tales from the Crypt” movie, finally arrives on a newly minted HD transfer thanks to the Horror Hounds at Scream Factory, an imprint of Shout Factory  ...

Swiping its title from an Edgar Allan Poe short story, The Oblong Box is American International Pictures’ answer to life after Roger Corman, who stopped his Poe & Price AIP film cycle in 1965.  This time, Gordon Hessler (The Golden Voyage of Sinbad), takes his first step behind  ...

I have to say that in the vampire category of horror flicks there are very few I find to be actually worthy of a true scare.  The Return of Count Yorga is one of those.  This new age take on sunny Californian vampirism succeeds where the original near skinflick, Count Yorga  ...

Riddle me this. Besides being movies I like, what do Evil Dead II, Moontrap, Army of Darkness and John Woo's Hard Target all have in common? It's not Bruce Campbell. It's the not the splatterific amount of gore either...but close. It's special effects artist Gary Jones  ...

Operating along the same guidelines as a raging bull in a china shop, James Roday’s directorial-debut Gravy, now appreciating a solid release on blu-ray thanks to Scream! Factory, is a gonzo-spirited horror-comedy that definitely does not disappoint.   This freewheeling comedy  ...