DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

Opening by ripping off Evil Dead with its own talking book of the dead, Evil Toons announces itself early on as a dead end b-movie as David Carradine, looking all sorts of wizardly, hides in the shadows.  With a grim face and white straw-like hair, he casts a spell with his undead ...

Slaughter High, even for a b-movie, just barely gets a passing score.   Written and directed by George Dugdale, Mark Ezra and Peter Litten and co-starring Carmine Iannaccone and Gary Martin, this cult flick favorite survives the passing of the VHS-era of home ...

Cheeseburger!  Cheeseboiger!  Cheeseboiger! Everybody knows that machines don't get hungry.  They also can't reproduce or think for themselves.  Or can they? ...

Sixty minutes of Bela Lugosi brow-beating back a recently thawed cave man with a rolled-up piece of paper that is on fire?  Oh, man.  Where do I sign up for this zany B-movie madness?  Return of the Ape Man is rich, I tell you, super rich.  Just wait until the cave man sits behind ...

“I cannot rest.  I cannot rest.” With those words, a casual line becomes a warning as a vampire – dressed all in white – takes the life of yet another victim.  She is asleep.  The little dog in her...

The Living Dead saga was alive and well back in 2005.  Keep in mind that this was long before the rise of Donald Trump and his own peculiar brand of brain dead followers.  Yet, thanks to a scathing political commentary, the horror film was already keenly aware of where we ...

When we get to any discussion on the films of William Castle, there are so many to consider that it becomes overwhelming. The famed director, producer, screenwriter, and actor never found a promotion he didn’t like. He was, in fact, a sheer master of filling theaters with  ...

Get the Yuletide fears this Halloween season.  Red Christmas has arrived! ...

It’s green.  It radiates.  It spreads.  And it’s on the surface of a rogue asteroid headed toward our planet.  The Green Slime must be stopped ...

I’m not sure there is a more timely release date for The Hidden than right now.  This forgotten and largely ignored tale of cops and aliens is a fun festival of all our recent greatest hits.  A creepy crawly alien taking over the mind of a wannabe president?  Wowser.  I am all ears ...

The river appears cold and an old man – silent and sullen – has a weighty expression drawing his lips together into a fierce single line as he tolls a forlorn bell. His eyes are full of the bleak landscape; immediate and mean.  His is a face dirty and grim with the soiled handiwork ...

Kids and corporations go hand-in-hand. Don’t believe me? Just watch any cartoon show and count the number of commercials tailored for them. It should be no secret; Corporations DEPEND on their brand being imprinted upon these tiny tots and the earlier the better ...

Have you seen the new girl?  Elizabeth (Nicola Diana) is her name.  And she’s a weird one, demanding protection from the adults who try to tame her curious influence over all the other kids in the orphanage.  She’s got two little devotees by her side all of the time ...

Devil worshipping and zombie rapes.  Oh my!  When did SOV titles get so risqué?!  The answer, of course, is ALWAYS!  Hell, yes! ...

Disembodied voices from a bygone era; the sound of the restless sea; moonlight crashing against the rocks surrounding the island’s lighthouse, and the heavy fog endlessly spilling in from an unnamable source.  All of these are spectacular qualities that surround the mysterious  ...