DVD Reviews

Okay, so 2003 horror was… how do we put this kindly… the cinematic equivalent of a mall fountain. Everything was glossy, safe, and engineered to offend absolutely no one. Studios were terrified of real gore, real grime, or anything that smelled like the weird, dangerous VHS energy Gen X grew up  ...

“Big bada boom.” There’s this moment early on—Korben Dallas slumped in his cramped apartment, cigarette filter glowing blue, the city outside stacked like a cosmic junk drawer—that tells you everything about The Fifth Element before the plot even kicks in. It’s the way the camera lingers on the ...

If you want to understand why Lethal Weapon still hits like a shot of cinematic espresso, start with the Christmas‑tree‑lot shootout. It’s pure 1987 chaos: Mel Gibson’s Riggs, all hair and unmedicated intensity, trying to buy cocaine from guys who look like they were cast directly from a Whitesnake  ...

Okay, so The Amazing Bulk is honestly one of the weirdest movies I have ever seen in my entire life, and I’ve watched the original Super Mario Bros movie like 5 times. This movie was released in 2012 and is supposed to be similar to The Incredible Hulk, but if the Hulk   ...

Bob Clark’s Black Christmas isn’t just a horror film—it’s a masterclass in suspense, dark humor, and pure holiday terror. Critics at the time may have punted it around, but the joke’s on them: this Canadian classic helped define the slasher genre and still terrifies audiences today. Thanks to  ...

Get ready to get toxic. The janitor who fell into a vat of radioactive sludge is back in glorious 4K — uglier, gloopier, and nastier than ever. Four films of mutant mayhem, over-the-top gore, and darkly hilarious chaos await. Includes the original 1984 classic, the slapstick-stuffed sequels, and Citizen   ...

Monsters are the good guys? Yep. Cilve Barker flips horror on its head in this cult classic. David Cronenberg is terrifying, Danny Elfman’s score is epic, and Midian is the freak‑friendly underground city you wish you could move into. Grab some pizza, crank the VCR, and root for the outsiders. Warning: you  ...

Back in ’93, you didn’t just watch Jason Goes to Hell — you walked out of that theater and immediately started arguing in the parking lot like it was life or death. One buddy swore the slug‑demon body‑hopping thing was genius, another was yelling that if Jason isn’t in a hockey mask, it’s not ...

1990’s Misery is one of the finest book to screen King adaptations of all time, in my humble opinion. While this new dearth of King adaptions continues unabated with varying degrees of success or abject failure (*cough: The Stand), no one has (as yet) touched it, or even broached remaking it ...

Primal terror has never looked this good before. Joe Dante’s The Howling is back from the woods, cleaned up, sharpened, and ready to bite again. You could argue it’s the most important werewolf movie ever made — and you wouldn’t be wrong. Before Gremlins made him a household name, Dante  ...

It’s like Scooby-Doo met David Bowie in a haunted house and decided to throw a burlesque show.  There are B-movies, and then there’s The Rocky Horror Picture Show—a glitter-drenched fever dream that crawled out of a sci-fi graveyard, stole a corset, and never looked back. And now - The  ...

Because Marvel won’t make movies this gross. So, The Toxic Avenger is back—because apparently we’ve run out of superheroes who can see out of both eyes and don’t leak glowing sludge. The original was the crown jewel of late-night cable rot, a glorious dumpster fire from the fine folks at Troma  ...

Finally, the long wait is over. Angela Baker is coming home … again. There are very few writers who truly understand how comedy can support horror and vice versa in the filmmaking community. Fritz Gordon, the screenwriter of Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers and Sleepaway Camp ...

I mean, truly there are 3 stars in this plastic-wrapped corpse collection of a whodunnit if only for the vibrant crash-zoom opening which features Edwige Fenech dancing in her golden bra as if at a European Go-Go with a vibrant energy few women can match  ...

Who’d have thought that vikings in ridiculous costumes could be this endearing?!  Certainly no one I know . . . especially if you just gradually tune in and out of this western-inspired adventure.  Throw in some shoot-outs (by way of knives) and a showdown in the sunset and you have director Mario Bava’s nod   ...

If the opening moments of Kill, Baby, Kill aren’t enough to set you on edge, then I suppose nothing else in Mario Bava’s bloody good movie will either.  Move along, kid.  There’s literally nothing for YOU to see here if you remain unaffected by its suspense.  This film, celebrated immediately upon its release  ...

Mario Bava’s thriller, The Girl Who Knew Too Much, is really where the Italian giallo began.  Yes, it is borrowing heavily from Hitchcock  But there is a breathless agility to its overall mystery that operates a bit more fantastical than Hitch dared as a young woman (Letícia Román), while vacationing   ...

I’m not going to mince words here. Truck Turner is one seriously badass flick. It is the type of B-movie that gets me so excited for the unlimited possibilities of low budget cinema. It is sooo much better than Shaft and the countless other Blaxploitation films offered up in the wake of 1971’s Sweet    ...

Directed by Mario Bava (Planet of Vampires), Black Sabbath remains an influential horror film. It is, after all, where Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward, and Ozzy Osbourne (who all marveled at the fact that people actually paid money only to leave theaters that scared) got their band name from. But one quick   ...

Originally titled The Mask of Satan, Mario Bava’s feature length debut, released here in the United States as Black Sunday, was a gothic-sized hit for Roger Corman’s American International Pictures.  The hype was all about its shocking images.  While tame when compared to today’s horror, Bava’s film  ...

Crime is a disease.  He is STILL the cure.  That’s right, Marion “Cobra” Cobretti is back on the streets!  This time in stunning 4K thanks to Arrow Video, who have remastered and restored this 1980’s classic from the original 35mm negative and given it a sun-kissed audio uptick as well! ...

Written and directed by Larry Cohen (The Stuff, It's Alive, Q: The Winged Serpent, Original Gangstas), Black Caesar is essentially a remake of 1931’s Little Caesar with Edward G. Robinson.  To its credit; however, Cohen’s film has enough stylized action and Harlem locale in it to make it   ...

Barry Shear's Across 110th Street remains a hard-hitting look at racial violence in the streets of New York City. Loaded with hundreds of F-bombs, there's no denying its visceral power and, while the film gets lumped in with a lot of other Blaxploitation flicks from the era, the gritty realism  ...

Sky Captain And The World of Tomorrow remains an absolute joy ride through pure imagination.  It is - by design - retro in feeling, high on nostalgia, pulpy in its comic book fantasy, and - thanks to Shout! Factory - now hitting its stride on home video thanks to this 4K treatment.  It seems the times  ...

The Long Kiss Goodnight, the critically-panned 1996 American action thriller film co-produced and directed by Renny Harlin and written by Shane Black, has finally arrived on 4K thanks to the fine efforts of Arrow Video.  This brand new 4K restoration has been minted from the original 35mm  ...

Once upon a time ago, Pam Grier – with her name proudly resting ABOVE the titles – could sell a movie. Hell, she WAS the movie. What a powerful time in movie history that was; an African-American woman selling an action flick. Such is the case with William Girdler's Sheba, Baby,  ...

Shout Factory has taken us back to the grit and grime of the Los Angeles streets circa 1973, thanks to their restoration and release of Jack Hill’s blaxploitation cult classic, Coffy, which is part of their Blaxploitation Classics, Vol. 1 release, a set which features THE BADDEST CATS TO STEP  ...

“I know what you're thinking: 'Did he fire six shots or only five?' Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I  ...

“I’m on TV!  I’m on TV!” Because we all love the scene-stealing LUNACY of a Cage-centered meltdown, especially when his character is named Rick Santoro!  Go, Tyler! Go, Tyler! Goooooooooo!  ...

Essentially, Battle Beyond the Stars can be described as Akira Kurosawa’s The Seven Samurai meets Star Wars on a restricted budget that employs egg and milk cartons for its interior spaceship designs. It remains nothing but a good time! ...