DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

Loosely based on the real life Canadian manhunt for `Mad Trapper' Albert Johnson, director Peter Hunt (On Her Majesty’s Secret Service) proves once again to be stellar behind the camera as Death Hunt belongs in its own genre.  Is it completely action-filled? ....

A slimmed-down (or well-concealed) John Travolta plays a cold-blooded Serbian war criminal (wait, what?) and Robert De Niro forgets his southern accent over Jaeger shots in director Mark Steven Johnson’s Killing Season.  This combination of talent should have worked ...

Once upon a very brief time, Dolph Lundgren was being groomed to be the next badass superstar.  And then Hollywood woke up, realizing he was already a parody.  Made at the very peak of his brief rise to superstar fame here in America, Dark Angel – now considered ...

Oh, but no.  Just no. Having no idea what to expect from a movie entitled Pawn Shop Chronicles but sporting an interesting cast, I thought I would give it a fair shake.  Unfortunately, that’s where my fairness ends.  This redneck attempt at Pulp Fiction is neither ...

I’m being generous with a 3 star review for Larry Cohen’s flawed movie, I know.  Kick dust at me.  Go ahead.  The gimme-my-paycheck acting of David Carradine is terrible; the court scenes are grueling at best; the twitching of Michael Moriarty, the dopiness ...

Finally, the long wait is over. Angela Baker is coming home … again. There are very few writers who truly understand how comedy can support horror and vice versa in the filmmaking community. Fritz Gordon, the screenwriter of Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers and Sleepaway Camp ...

I mean, truly there are 3 stars in this plastic-wrapped corpse collection of a whodunnit if only for the vibrant crash-zoom opening which features Edwige Fenech dancing in her golden bra as if at a European Go-Go with a vibrant energy few women can match  ...

Who’d have thought that vikings in ridiculous costumes could be this endearing?!  Certainly no one I know . . . especially if you just gradually tune in and out of this western-inspired adventure.  Throw in some shoot-outs (by way of knives) and a showdown in the sunset and you have director Mario Bava’s nod   ...

If the opening moments of Kill, Baby, Kill aren’t enough to set you on edge, then I suppose nothing else in Mario Bava’s bloody good movie will either.  Move along, kid.  There’s literally nothing for YOU to see here if you remain unaffected by its suspense.  This film, celebrated immediately upon its release  ...

Mario Bava’s thriller, The Girl Who Knew Too Much, is really where the Italian giallo began.  Yes, it is borrowing heavily from Hitchcock  But there is a breathless agility to its overall mystery that operates a bit more fantastical than Hitch dared as a young woman (Letícia Román), while vacationing   ...

I’m not going to mince words here. Truck Turner is one seriously badass flick. It is the type of B-movie that gets me so excited for the unlimited possibilities of low budget cinema. It is sooo much better than Shaft and the countless other Blaxploitation films offered up in the wake of 1971’s Sweet    ...

Directed by Mario Bava (Planet of Vampires), Black Sabbath remains an influential horror film. It is, after all, where Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward, and Ozzy Osbourne (who all marveled at the fact that people actually paid money only to leave theaters that scared) got their band name from. But one quick   ...

Originally titled The Mask of Satan, Mario Bava’s feature length debut, released here in the United States as Black Sunday, was a gothic-sized hit for Roger Corman’s American International Pictures.  The hype was all about its shocking images.  While tame when compared to today’s horror, Bava’s film  ...

Crime is a disease.  He is STILL the cure.  That’s right, Marion “Cobra” Cobretti is back on the streets!  This time in stunning 4K thanks to Arrow Video, who have remastered and restored this 1980’s classic from the original 35mm negative and given it a sun-kissed audio uptick as well! ...

Written and directed by Larry Cohen (The Stuff, It's Alive, Q: The Winged Serpent, Original Gangstas), Black Caesar is essentially a remake of 1931’s Little Caesar with Edward G. Robinson.  To its credit; however, Cohen’s film has enough stylized action and Harlem locale in it to make it   ...