DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

This release from Synapse Films of Suspiria is a work of pure art.  It is also important and impactful, belonging in a time capsule AND in your collection of horror titles.  It is, hands down, my pick for the best blu-ray release of the year.  With only 6000 units produced ...

It begins with a whole lot of screaming and that's exactly how it ends, too.  Strait-Jacket is one tense flick.  That's what happens when Joan Crawford is allowed to become all sorts of unhinged with an axe in her hand. ...

Hot rods!  Heatwaves!  Voodoo dolls!  Fish Creatures!  Nubile babes!  And beach parties galore!  And it is all set to the wickedly fresh tunes of The Del-Aires.  Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick, if The Horror of Party Beach isn’t the best campy cult flick to ever hit the sandy shores ...

Get the beer ready.  You’re going to need it for this goofy (and gross!) after-birth of a horror flick. The Unborn is a horror film allowed to go full-on gonzo with its killer baby motif as Brook Adams (Invasion of the Body Snatchers) discovers that the child growing inside of her is actually a ...

In which satire turns to the slasher genre as its next pulpy target. You get your invite to the party of … three years ago?  I hope so because someone killed all the beer!!!!!!  ...

Super tongue strikes again!  Bob Clark’s Black Christmas is a masterpiece of horror (and humor) that you truly can deck the halls with. There’s no other way to put it. Oh, the print critics had a field day punting it around at the time of its release, but the joke is on them ...

Damn you, Trioxin 245!  I mean, seriously, again!?!?!?  Four years later, did we need a sequel to the original spoof?  Maybe not.  But it's hella fun to think we did!!! ...

The basement.  It is the place of unspeakable horror: thrills, spills, kills, and chills.  Sometimes ghosts reside there.  Sometimes monsters.  It is a place of long hidden secrets.  No daylight, only fright.  Regardless of its purpose for providing safety from storms and such ...

Fuck the rules of feature filmmaking!  When you are having this much fun, who needs character development?  In the upside down world of cult cinema (where the absolute worst the film, the more it appeals to film freaks) ...

Picture it.  Two men are sitting across from each other at a table in a diner.  Their conversation is quick and intense.  One is a very panicked Anthony Starke (best known for his role as the third-person speaking Jimmy in the Seinfeld episode “The Jimmy”) and the other is a  ...

My birthday party at McDonalds was nothing like the impromptu dance sequences at the fast food joint in this movie.  And Ronald McDonald never came to my parties.  Why not, Mom?  Damn it.  I want a refund…or something.  Maybe a free Happy Meal? ...

"How did you die, Joseph? Did you die in this house?  Why do you remain?" There are few films as frightening as The Changeling.  I originally saw this film when I just a little boy and the banging in the ...

Rock‘em schlock‘em grooviness returns! There’s something really strange growing on Billy’s chest.  It’s silver, metallic, and looks very, very alien.  His girlfriend (Cheryl Smith) is concerned about his growing dark side and his doctor (Roddy McDowell)...

Severin Entertainment, having recently released two of Jess Franco's more renowned films in High Definition, continues their horror exploitation roll out with the release of one of Barbara Steele’s most memorable films.  Full of great atmosphere and a solidly gothic will of ...

…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   ...