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- By Loron Hays
In cine-massacre history, there are few films that compare to the in-the-gut feeling Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre leaves you with. Every imperfection in this low-budget Slasher works in the movie’s favor and adds to the overall grisly experience. The movie is not as violent or as ...
Read more: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) - 4K UHD + Blu-ray Review
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- By Christopher Symonds
The anti-hero, the McGuffin, the duplicitous femme fatale, film noir, German expressionism seeping its way into western film—these things have influenced our movies for longer than this reviewer’s father was alive, and they’re things that we take for granted because they’ve become old hat. But ...
Read more: The Maltese Falcon (1941) - 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital HD Review
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- By Christopher Symonds
Every now and then competing studios find themselves making and releasing the same sort of product around the same time. In 1998, Touchstone Pictures (Disney) and Paramount went head-to-head with asteroid disaster ensembles. While Michael Bay’s Armageddon clearly trounced Mimi ...
Read more: Deep Impact (1998) - 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital HD
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- By Loron Hays
This Roger Corman-produced slasher/comedy was long overdue on blu-ray, but it makes a fairly early 4K release and for all of the right reasons, too. It was originally made in 1982 on a shoestring budget and featured as many boobs as grizzly power-tool murders. Directed by Amy Holden Jones ...
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- By Emily Strong
What do you get when you combine the elevated emotions of a melodrama and the seedy, back-stabbing beats and visuals of a noir? This concoction is the exact recipe for Michael Curtiz’s delectably dark Mildred Pierce starring the incomparable Joan Crawford as the iconic title character ...
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- By Emily Strong
“Is that what I was so afraid of?” What is the scariest kind of monster? Is it a knife-wielding, masked psychopath wreaking havoc in a small town? Is it an alien creature from another planet that can eat or mimic another species completely? Is it an unpredictable, reconstructed monster made by a mad scientist ...
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- By Loron Hays
Kitty’s back on the cell block! Woot! Woot! Let the sweat-dripping orgies begin! Violence in a Women’s Prison, originally released in 1982, is a damn ugly exploitation flick. Even when you lower the bar when it comes to Women in Prison flicks, this ...
Read more: Violence in a Women's Prison (1982) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Loron Hays
It’s been written that, “the woods are lovely, dark and deep” but are they really? After watching the opening 10 minutes of Guts On The Chainsaw (with narration from Robert Stone), you’ll be questioning that statement yourself. After all, according to the movie, there are over 407 open cases ...
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- By Emily Strong
Can a movie that is a mess also be considered genius? Well, that is the perpetual debate about Orson Welles’ The Lady from Shanghai. Based on the novel If I Die Before I Wake by Sherwood King, this film takes all of the noir essentials and twists them in such an entertainingly strange ...
Read more: The Lady From Shanghai (1947) - Special Edition Blu-ray Review
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- By Christopher Symonds
A few years back, I got to write a long form article about the Superman films, so if you’re looking for a deep dive then please check out: ‘Superman On the Big Screen: Parts 1-4’. For this new UHD release from Warner Bros, I’ll give a quick review of each of the five included Christopher Reeve ...
Read more: Superman 5-Film Collection (1978-1987) - 4KUHD + Blu-ray + Digital Review
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- By Loron Hays
You say want sex and violence? Well, the Masked Mutilator has EXACTLY what you are looking for. Just be respectful because this house parent will definitely kick your ass ...
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The introduction to this low budget feast tells us all we need to know . . . “The great virus started in 2019. In the first 2 years almost 5 million people died worldwide. In 2022 a new strain hit and 5 million people a month were dying. No vaccine was effective. This created high gas prices, food ...
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- By Emily Strong
On again, off again. In love, out of love. Going back to school, starting a new job. Everything is fluid and everything is changing in the whimsical and lustful drama from French director Jacques Audiard. Capturing the residential district of Les Olympiades in beautiful black and white photography ...
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- By Emily Strong
It’s 1908 in London, and Miss Sonia Winter (the great Diana Rigg), a strong-willed and staunch feminist who holds aspirations to become a journalist lays before the heads of a notable newspaper a story that will be sure to make a name for herself. She’s seemed to uncover an organization that offers ...
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Exploitation vigilantism never kicked so hard as it does here in the second installment of the Death Wish series. Newly remastered thanks to the efforts of Vinegar Syndrome and MGM, Death Wish II can now be seen ...
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