DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

For this installment of Kaiju Korner, we tackle the screen debut of Rodan, Godzilla’s best and worst frenemy in a number of kaiju sequels, as he takes to the skies in his film debut over an erupting Mount Aso and wreaks all sorts of havoc for the4 civilians below thanks to his  ...

“Once they were men; now they are land crabs.” The late GREAT Roger Corman was not one to shy away from kaiju territory, no matter the ridiculousness of the story. His early B-movies are absolute marvels at what he was able to pull off on a dime-sized budget and that’s where we take things ...

Mutated by the H-bomb one octopus takes its deformity into its own hands and attacks!!  That’s right, Kaiju Kravers, it’s time to ramp up those fears of a nuclear attack with It Came From Beneath the Sea!  ...

In which the Yakuza enter into a Godzilla flick.  Yes, those badass dudes.  Sure, their involvement in the plot of Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla proves to be little more than shoot-out to add some conspiracy to the failed implementation of Project T - a psychic way to control  ...

Monsters. Mutants. And mayhem from the skies above! It’s all here in Godzilla: Final Wars, the one movie designed to end the kaiju reign of terror once and for all  ...

“Did it ever occur to you that beneath the superficial you’ve learned about, there could be a great and passionate devotion to this god?” When it comes to The Mummy, few films have delivered anything close to Universal’s original 1932 film with Boris Karloff in the role of Imhotep, an ancient  ...

“It’s alive! It’s alive!” Thanks to the glorious electrical effects of Kenneth Strickfaden, most viewers know the key sequence in Frankenstein in which the mad Henry Frankenstein (a tremendous performance from Colin Clive) brings his stitched-together creation of random human ...

Frankenstein will never die.  Know this. While some form of the monster may come and go, the mad scientist responsible for all his carnage will never completely disappear.   Hammer’s final moments with their first incarnation of his evil, gloriously played by Peter Cushing, might have sent him to the gallows pole but, deep down inside, all of us knew that it wasn’t really the end of his  ...

“I am Dracula. I bid you welcome.” In which the Universal Monsters film series moves away from the silent era and legitimately begins!  Pre-Code Horror doesn’t get any better than here with Producer Carl Laemmle’s Dracula, a film which is often overlooked by some disciples ...

It’s a deadly game of bat and mouse!!! The steady beat.  The blistering horns.  That powerful theme of James Bernard’s pierces the walls of this cemetery; it is majestic even.  It sounds like a procession as the camera marches us toward the tomb of Dracula.  And then, because we’d not have it any other way, there is a sprinkling of ...

While the majority of people probably think of Andrew Lloyd Webber when they hear any mention of The Phantom of the Opera, there remains a loyal following of film lovers who, correctly, can’t help but picture Lon Chaney’s terrified expression in his full phantom regalia as he is unmasked for the first time.  It’s a frightening  ...

Monsters fascinate us.  Let that sink in before continuing because it says a lot about humans.  From the very beginning of time, it seems the darker elements of our societies continue to ignite our imaginations.  That being said, consider this: Monsters continue to fascinate us.  All of us.  Whether serial killers or laboratory ...

This is going to be difficult for some of you to understand.  Once upon a time ago, there was a Hollyweird without horror films.  Sure, there were Z-grade science fiction flicks with aliens invading Earth and all that but, when it came to Gothic thrillers with creaky old houses and mad scientists hellbent on robbing graves  ...