DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

A patient wakes up in a hospital room.  It is cold and sterile.  This is definitely not his mob-funded home.  The confusion wears off when he realizes he should be dead.  A vampire – his boss – devoured him last night.  So how is this possible?  His eyes begin to glow ...

The release of the fully restored 110-minute version of director Harry O. Hoyt's The Lost World on Blu-ray is a big fucking deal.  For the longest time, the original version of this silent film had long been thought destroyed and missing.  It was as if the film had simply been  ...

Ouch!  My head really hurts after watching this one from 1984.  The scene where a very much deformed and noggin-trumpin’ man suddenly finds his head growing three sizes too big is a real find.  He then growls and shoves a girl’s hand down the garbage disposal. That’ll teach ...

…in which the producers lie, cheat, and steal from star Lou Ferrigno so much so that he actually agrees to do reshoots for a movie that will never see the light of day for a much smaller price tag.  That’s right, folks, Mr. Incredible Hulk himself is victim to the wrath of producers ...

Beautiful women.  Mechanical Beasts.  And a floating thrift store water jug drifting in space.  There are so many weird and strange and low-budget visuals from this movie – like the sight of a greenless (but poorly dubbed) Lou Ferrigno – that are scratched into my retinas ...

Holy gonzo grindhouse flicks!  Effects is the ultimate high in DIY horror. ...

Turns out that one of New York City’s finest isn’t a cop at all.  She’s a pissed of victim of rape and violence and pretty much wants you to watch her put a bullet into the brain of any dude with a free swinging dick and a repulsive swagger to match.  Hell, after her brutal attack ...

Having journeyed down a Colorado mountainside highway when the brakes have just gone out, there’s certainly nothing funny about the tragic car accident that brutally takes the lives of a young mother and father in the opening few minutes of Butcher, Baker Nightmare ...

In one key scene of The Intruder, where the art of murder comes into full effect, Mickey Rooney is being led by a shadowy figure up the steep and winding steps of a lighthouse.  The lantern room is shimmering with light.  The sun pierces the glass of the storm panes and ...

A goddamn bottle of wine!  This is the statement uttered when a hard edged DC cop tries to bust a fellow brother threatening to shoot the bus driver over a miscount of his $.40 fare leads to accusation and suspicion.  This is followed by a dream sequence in which a naked ...

Deceptive dramatics.  Revisionist exploits.  Homoeroticism and male grunting up to the, ahem, hilt.  And absolutely no one has any sex.  Not even the $10 hookers get any love.  Wtf, mate?!  Ah, the wrongheaded Reagan action flicks from the 1980s!  Sylvester Stallone had ...

Purple satin jackets and the dead walk again and again and again in this genre gem from director Tom McLoughlin (Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives and Sometimes They Come Back).  One Dark Night is given a brand new lease on life with this blu-ray release from ...

Some things, like the growing legion of fans this dark comedy currently celebrates, are best left unexplained.  Shakes the Clown operates by its own rules.  And those laws don’t necessarily have to make sense.  They just are.  Low on budget and high in fumes, this is one ...

Slaughter in the South Bronx has returned! Let’s go knock over Styrofoam refrigerators onto people!  Big trashy fun and guns!  Any way you stab at or slice it, Tenement is a wicked little gem of ...

My brothers and sisters of slasher cinema, we are surrounded by bad news when it comes to global issues.  Forget about North Korea for a couple of hours.  Dump the Trump.  The only bit of decent news on the bullhorn today is the arrival of this blu-ray release from the ...