DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

Because safe is a state of mind. The first warning happens right in front of the Pompidou Centre when a tourist’s camera, while he is recording his thoughts on one of the best-known sights in Paris, is stolen by an unidentified male.  Hauling ass through a crowded...

Chi-Town.  Karate.  Chuck Norris.  And a killer soundtrack from David Michael Frank. Is there anything – and this includes the synthesized score – that Code of Silence doesn’t get right?  It is both character driven and intense, filling each scene with violence and ...

It begins on a beach.  A woman is laughing.  She’s seeing all the muscles on display; the men hulking out in their shorts on the beach.  Lots of ogling is going on.  And she starts to laugh.  She sees them working out and then she sees them with blood spurting out of fresh ...

This theatre is damned!  Sorry, Aronofsky, you aren’t as unique as was once thought.  Étoile reveals all the reasons why. With Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake” at its center, Étoile – a rather enigmatic movie concerning ghosts, satanic possessions, and ballerinas – provides  ...

Surrender.  Forget the common and known world.  Once you enter the wild and wacky world of Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood, life, as you know it, becomes permanently altered.  There is a dream but you are not the dreamer ...

The damn doll at the center of this tale of kidnapping and insanity is an unsettling looking toy indeed.  The curly-haired plastic child is always with the disturbed mother who is trying to get her daughter returned to her by any means necessary and, as the toy is oversized, it looks ...

Released in 1984, Charles E. Sellier Jr’s Silent Night, Deadly Night did for Christmas what John Carpenter did for trick or treating: memorialize the day with a seriously twisted flick that continues to live on long past its expiration date.  And here we are yet again with another ...

Survivor’s guilt is a real thing. Just ask Thom Eberhardt (Night of the Comet), the writer and director of Sole Survivor, a psychological twisted horror film that concerns itself with the lone survivor of a doomed commercial airliner and the haunted visions that follow her as she ...

I’m unsure if there is anything creepier than adults, dressed as children, behaving exactly as one would expect kids to behave.  For Fanny and Woody, playing on an old swing that goes out over the sea, theirs is to lure guests into their traps and then watch as they go ...

There’s really nothing I can do to save you from yourself if the first five minutes of director Vicente Aranda’s The Blood Spattered Bride does absolutely nothing for you.  Tarantino has alluded to its mesmerizing effectiveness, going so far as to name one of his chapters in ...

It happened again.  Whatever side of the coin you land on when it comes to appreciating Twin Peaks: The Return and its use of Tulpas, the point is that it happened.  And we should ALWAYS be grateful – no matter if there is another season or not – that Twin Peaks soldiered ...

To this day, there remains something insanely special about director Brian De Palma’s Carrie.  It is based on the once-discarded novel by Stephen King, but was painstakingly adapted for the screen by Lawrence D. Cohen.  Cohen got everything about King’s first novel right  ...

September 26.  To my knowledge that’s the only day Jeepers Creepers 3 was granted access to theaters.  You know why and I’m not about to go into all the details surrounding writer/director Victor Salva (Powder, Jeepers Creepers) past here.  The point is that  ...

When was the last time you bowled with a severed head?  Fought off possessed humans with bowling pins?  Freed an imp from a bowling trophy?  If you never have, then Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama is the gutterball-minded flick for you. ...

Know this: Bone Tomahawk, the horror western that tore at our guts last year, was no fucking fluke.  Writer/director S. Craig Zahler is the real deal when it comes to B-movie minded badass pictures and Vince Vaughn, bald and in shape as the drug dealing focal point of ...