DVD Reviews

Sun-bleached and seedy as hell, Trip with the Teacher features a rather torturous teenage death as one student is slammed headfirst into desert sands and then held down to choke on every grain.  Talk about choking on a sandwich, Mama Cass. ...

It is suggested in Ed Wood’s last fleshy fable that, “to love the cat is to be the cat.”  Criswell’s own princess of the dark says that to him, peering up at his noodle-blonde hair.  Bring out the pussycat for the whipping then is the command.  They are born to be spanked.  Come again ...

This is the story of what happened when Joe met Kate ... and then rented the Debbie Reynolds workout tape.  Psychos in Love is a fully realized version of Annie Hall by way of Psycho.  It is, from beginning to end, a very funny film.  Forget the horror aspects, man, this is an ...

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 ...

Two years later (and largely thanks to the animated series that kept it alive and kicking in the popular culture), Teen Wolf was alive and kicking.  Everyone my age wanted a sequel.  Unfortunately, what we wanted – namely the return of Michael J. Fox in the role ...

Puberty, man, what a frigging nightmare.  So many changes in the body.  Complete with raging hormones, it’s a horror show in and of itself.  Well, for one high school dude, puberty brings on a whole hell of a lot of howling trouble.  Aroo!  Aroo!  Arooooooo! ...

Elijah Wood and Macaulay Culkin are going to be BFFs until the end of time.  At least, that’s the plan until it all goes incredibly insane thanks to the wicked antics of Culkin’s bratty character in 1993’s The Good Son.  Culkin, who was all of 12 years old at the time, finds himself ...

Holy fucking meat cleavers, Iris!  This shit is bananas.  Want to see a body hacked to pieces and then shoved into a bathtub of acid?  Want to see a severely bloody disembowelment for true love?  Want to then see a person cram a sort of messy beef stew into her mouth afterward? ...

God, I have missed this movie.  Slither has long been my go-to movie when folks I encounter have questions about the often-misunderstood horror-comedy subgenre.  This is highly quotable material and it goes for broke in its commitment to entertain as the zingers and its ...

It will go down as the movie in which Godzilla becomes truly terrifying (and a bit satirical).  There’s no fist pumping moments in this one, folks.  Godzilla is pissed the fuck off and all of Hell itself is unleashed to punish us, the transgressors ...

Imagine, if you will, a world in which a horror movie is made with the single objective to catch the killer the movie is about.  No, it’s not a premise to an episode of The Twilight Zone.  It is, in fact, what happened with 1971’s The Zodiac Killer at screenings in San Francisco,  ...

There’s no denying that Batman: Mask of the Phantasm has, over the years since its original release, developed a strong cult following.  There are those out there that consider this animated feature length movie – an extension of the popular animated series that debuted  ...

“Put it down, Judge!  Put it down!”  With that command, the first murder in Don’t Look In The Basement occurs.  Already we’ve been introduced to a mad woman who thinks a baby doll is, in fact, her real baby, a grown man who behaves like a child, a sergeant still at war ...

Sick! Sick! Sick!  I love it, though, I really do.  Bag Boy Lover Boy is a downward spiral of psycho exploitation into cannibalism as one hot dog vendor on the Lower East Side dabbles with his talents and creates something new.  The gooey results of this low budget affair are  ...

Movini on over, Cobra God!  There’s a new eagle in town.  Masters of mortality unite!  There ain’t nothin’ going to be the same now that a dweeb like Duff has taken roost. ...

Everybody out of the desert!  Huh?!  Bubbling up from the ground and spilling down canyon cliff walls, there’s a crawling brown mass of sticky ticky fist-sized monsters with fangs full of venom headed this way.  These spiders are incredibly pissed off, too.  First, they come ...