DVD Reviews

Number Five is alive…and armed to the teeth!  Imagine if the robot in Short Circuit was programmed by the government to wipe out certain members of our society.  Electronic genocide in an easy bake machine!  Now, imagine if that said robot could also rebuild itself and ...

Poor Rachel Foster.  The joint-smoking singer did nothing wrong except witness the brutal execution of a family by one of its members.  BANG! BANG!  And, because it is convenient (being a stranger in a strange county), she pays the ultimate price for the blood spatter ...

Films like William Castle's are sorely missed these days.  Especially when the object of the terror winds its way into a movie theater.  The Tingler is in the audience!  What fun!  Highlighted by a crazy scene in which a mute woman is targeted and nearly tortured in her own ...

This release from Synapse Films of Suspiria is a work of pure art.  It is also important and impactful, belonging in a time capsule AND in your collection of horror titles.  It is, hands down, my pick for the best blu-ray release of the year.  With only 6000 units produced ...

It begins with a whole lot of screaming and that's exactly how it ends, too.  Strait-Jacket is one tense flick.  That's what happens when Joan Crawford is allowed to become all sorts of unhinged with an axe in her hand. ...

Hot rods!  Heatwaves!  Voodoo dolls!  Fish Creatures!  Nubile babes!  And beach parties galore!  And it is all set to the wickedly fresh tunes of The Del-Aires.  Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick, if The Horror of Party Beach isn’t the best campy cult flick to ever hit the sandy shores ...

Get the beer ready.  You’re going to need it for this goofy (and gross!) after-birth of a horror flick. The Unborn is a horror film allowed to go full-on gonzo with its killer baby motif as Brook Adams (Invasion of the Body Snatchers) discovers that the child growing inside of her is actually a ...

In which satire turns to the slasher genre as its next pulpy target. You get your invite to the party of … three years ago?  I hope so because someone killed all the beer!!!!!!  ...

Super tongue strikes again!  Bob Clark’s Black Christmas is a masterpiece of horror (and humor) that you truly can deck the halls with. There’s no other way to put it. Oh, the print critics had a field day punting it around at the time of its release, but the joke is on them ...

Damn you, Trioxin 245!  I mean, seriously, again!?!?!?  Four years later, did we need a sequel to the original spoof?  Maybe not.  But it's hella fun to think we did!!! ...

The basement.  It is the place of unspeakable horror: thrills, spills, kills, and chills.  Sometimes ghosts reside there.  Sometimes monsters.  It is a place of long hidden secrets.  No daylight, only fright.  Regardless of its purpose for providing safety from storms and such ...

Fuck the rules of feature filmmaking!  When you are having this much fun, who needs character development?  In the upside down world of cult cinema (where the absolute worst the film, the more it appeals to film freaks) ...

Picture it.  Two men are sitting across from each other at a table in a diner.  Their conversation is quick and intense.  One is a very panicked Anthony Starke (best known for his role as the third-person speaking Jimmy in the Seinfeld episode “The Jimmy”) and the other is a  ...

My birthday party at McDonalds was nothing like the impromptu dance sequences at the fast food joint in this movie.  And Ronald McDonald never came to my parties.  Why not, Mom?  Damn it.  I want a refund…or something.  Maybe a free Happy Meal? ...

"How did you die, Joseph? Did you die in this house?  Why do you remain?" There are few films as frightening as The Changeling.  I originally saw this film when I just a little boy and the banging in the ...

Rock‘em schlock‘em grooviness returns! There’s something really strange growing on Billy’s chest.  It’s silver, metallic, and looks very, very alien.  His girlfriend (Cheryl Smith) is concerned about his growing dark side and his doctor (Roddy McDowell)...

Severin Entertainment, having recently released two of Jess Franco's more renowned films in High Definition, continues their horror exploitation roll out with the release of one of Barbara Steele’s most memorable films.  Full of great atmosphere and a solidly gothic will of ...

…in which Canada makes its very first wide-release horror movie. Wait. What?! It’s true. It wasn’t until the early 1960s that our polite friends up north decided to tingle their spines with the psychological art-house 3D terror of director Julian Roffman’s The Mask (AKA   ...

Opening with the familiar notes of Glen Miller’s “In the Mood”, Zone Troopers is a fresh take on the clichéd WW2 war movie with its combination of American soldiers, Nazis, and aliens. Charles Brand (Puppet Master) strikes again, right? Seriously. Once you climb inside this supersonic ship  ...

This is homegrown horror, my friends.  As loopy as it is, The House of the Dead (originally released as Alien Zone) can’t be knocked for being inauthentic.  This Amicus-like horror anthology –  connected by one main storyline as one man, having an affair, gets dropped off ...

Here comes yet another John Carpenter film on blu-ray! Chevy Chase in a John Carpenter movie?  Yes, indeed.  Memoirs of an Invisible Man, while not a commercial success, remains a favorite among Carpenter’s fans.  It also one of Chase’s top ...

The phone rings.  You answer.  “I like you better without the robe.  Take it off.”  Oh, snap.  Someone is looking right at you.  Shit.  This is the territory of one of John Carpenter's most disturbing and psychologically bent horror movies.  The things that go on in our ...

Supergirl is not a great movie.  But something AWESOME happens when you watch it repeatedly.  The damn thing clicks.  This is what happened to me while moving into my new house and it was the only blu-ray on my person.  There is a magic spell that is unleashed ...

James Cameron's first movie as a director isn’t very good.  Even by B-movie standards Piranha II: The Spawning leaves much to be desired.  The film, being a sequel to Roger Corman and Joe Dante’s successful flick, should have been wilder, funnier, and a bit more on point in ...

In what has to be one of the most startling introductions ever put to film, Village of the Damned begins with a series of shots in which it appears all the adults in Midwich have collapsed.  There are groceries scattered throughout the streets.  Common items discarded and ...

Proving there is still some mojo left in the bottle for the Re-Animator series (or maybe it was just a desire to get the gang back together), director Brian Yuzna and star Jeffrey Combs as Dr. Herbert West return, some 13 years later, to the series that put schlock back on ...

It’s big and overweight. It has weird hair. It’s white. It eats skiers and children and, no, it’s not Donald Trump. It is, in fact, the SNOWBEAST and, if you are moving at a high rate of speed down a mountain, chances are good that he will gobble your ass up in his mouth and grind your bones into powder ...

Rabbits.  They aren’t as cute as they seem.  Ask any Australian and they will tell you the truth: underground mutton.  In Night of the Lepus, now on blu-ray thanks to the horror hooligans over at Scream Factory, these furry critters grow and grow and grow and then they ATTACK!  ...

When the Italians go dark with their westerns, there’s no room for heroes. That’s what happens in Cut-Throats Nine, a serious-minded spaghetti western that is more Tarantino than the man himself. It is disturbed, gory, and twisted as hell and it tells one hell of a story ...

The evil eye might be bad luck but so is jacking off a goat, Boils and Ghouls. Tread lightly. Welcome this version of a fleshy and fantasy-ridden Hell, mofos! It is a place where touching yourself is permitted! Woot woot! This is Rosemary’s Baby with more skin, more Satan ...