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Japanese film director and screenwriter Kinji Fukasaku (Battle Royale) has certainly left his mark on filmmaking. Notable for his extensive use of shaky camera techniques in the 1970s, his influences on film spread worldwide over his lifetime with his final film being ...
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King Tut, how’d you get so funky? Comedian Steve Martin certainly knew the reasons why. Famed B-movie producer Roger Corman thought he knew why and offered this slow-moving excavation of the 18th dynasty pharaoh’s tomb to Dimitri Villard to oversee. The PG rated results ...
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Dun Dun Duuuuun! Even the island of Maui is not immune Roger Corman’s monster-making machine. Up from the Depths is a salvage film. Rescued from the Philippines by legendary B-movie producer Roger Corman, a lot of the film was already in the can before Corman ...
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Alienation, thy name is David Bowie. The Man Who Fell to Earth is one of those movies so incredibly odd that it exists in a sacred sphere that is outside of time itself. It has, in fact, improved with age becoming more emotionally impactful as David Bowie, playing the part ...
Read more: The Man Who Fell to Earth: Limited Collector’s Edition (1976) - Blu-ray Review
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Only the weirdest of the weird gravitate toward the slasher comedy. Every weirder are those who fall in line with the goofy sequels when the satire has all but dried up. Scream Factory, knowing that its rabid fanbase of freaks largely fall into the latter group of collectors ...
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Roger Corman’s Death Race 2050 is the film America needs right now. Loaded with comments about where we are headed as a nation, the b-movie – a new release from New Horizons and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment – races across a post-apocalyptic future ...
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The odds of being remembered were never in Band of the Hand’s favor. Most people only recall the explicit violence and the pop-minded title song that Dylan wrote and performed with The Heartbreakers. I guess the odds never really mattered anyway as they were ...
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Shocking. Poignant. Tear inducing. Whatever word I could use to describe this 1981 exploitation documentary that STILL resonates with its intense look at the far-reaching impact of homicide in America would simply not do it justice. The Killing of America deserves more than its ...
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Director Arthur Penn’s Dead of Winter is pretty much forgotten today, which makes its appearance on blu-ray – thanks to the efforts of Scream Factory – a real find for fans of old school chills and thrills ...
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And THIS is why mothers should never breast feed their freaky-looking children recently turned zombie. Directed by Strip Nude for you Killer’s Andrea Bianchi, Burial Ground is an Italian grindhouse romp through and through. Complete with a paper-thin plot about a professor ...
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Bring on the rush of nostalgia! Crank up the cheesy synths and relax because BMX Bandits is back, baby! Return with me, won’t you, to the era of Day-Glo colors and freestyle BMX styling. Give the middle finger to the humdrum reality of modern life and celebrate the ...
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Who knew nuclear fallout could be so wild? Guns belch across a wasted continent. Wild women run around in torn leather hot pants, football shoulder pads, and not much else. Beat up Ford Mustangs with dented doors are the new chariots. And those who control the water ...
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It is a movie best left for a super gloomy day. Only the mood created by the sound of falling raindrops and a sky of swollen clouds could satisfy the dark dwellings of The House That Screamed (aka La Residencia). There’s no denying that this creaky old Spanish flick – even ...
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Mr. King, I think it is safe to say that Clive Barker is STILL the future of horror ...
Read more: Hellraiser: The Scarlet Box Limited Edition Trilogy - Bluray review
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...in which the whole Nature VS Nurture argument finally gets its hands bloody. Okay, so maybe Morgan isn’t all that original. The story about an artificial intelligence being raised in a laboratory and the human assigned to evaluate her when she goes rogue and actually...
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Zombie is not finished with Halloween just yet, Boils and Ghouls. Rob Zombie’s 31 is not nearly as good as you’ll want it to be. It’s also not as bad as other critics are suggesting it is. The film does EXACTLY what it needs to do, but without establishing any real purpose ...
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For those of you out there wanting to gain access into the celebrated madness that is the b-movie world, Dreamscape is a certified rite of passage. You. Must. Enter. Here. All paths lead through its twisting corridors. Scream Factory celebrates this fact with their updated 2K ...
Read more: Dreamscape: Collector's Edition (1984) - Blu-ray Review
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Director Abel Ferrara (of Ms. 45 and Bad Lieutenant fame) and his long-time collaborator, screenwriter Nicholas St. John, are certified madmen of the NYC gutter scene. They are art punks through and through, tirelessly splattering their canvas with a bit of the old ultra-violence ...
Read more: The Driller Killer (1979) 2-Disc Special Edition - Blu-ray Review
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I’m not sure if it is Tangerine Dream’s electronic score or Tommy Lee Jones’ performance as the veteran who takes over Central Park for about two days or the subject matter itself of pushing back against the system that makes The Park is Mine work so insanely well ...
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The follow-up to the 1982 hit Creepshow probably arrived three years too late. While George A. Romero and Stephen King are involved with the project, it simply doesn’t have the same deadly bite that the first one did. Directed by Michael Gornick and written by Romero, the ...
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Thanks to J.J. Abrams and everyone’s efforts at Bad Robot, I have – to date – watched Phantasm more times in the past 2 months than in the whole of my entire life. The reasons are clear. It is, warts and all, one of the most perfect B-movies of all time. It’s re-release in ...
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Laird Cregar. I’d like to spend a minute or two dwelling on just how awesome he is as an actor. Hilarious in the screwball comedies he was cast in, Cregar was a very tall man of many hats and he never failed to deliver a memorable performance. He was an imposing figure ...
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The Phantasm series completes its offbeat rotation around the sun with the release of Phantasm: RaVager this Friday. It is a movie that is both a fitting goodbye to the late Angus Scrimm and, operating as the fifth and final movie in the series, a fitting conclusion. As you are more...
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With funding provided by the Packard Humanities Institute, the members of the UCLA Film & Television Archive have worked tirelessly to restore a small black-and-white crime potboiler that was thought long lost due to the unforgiving ravages of time. The edgy film is a prophetic ...
Read more: Private Property: Limited Edition (1960) - Blu-ray Review
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Never fear, Doc Savage is here!
With that joyous announcement, one of the campiest flicks to ever hit the 1970s leaps off the screen and into the hearts and minds of cinephiles everywhere. Let’s get something straight first. Doc Savage is completely ridiculous. Full of knowing winks to the camera ...
Read more: Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (1975) - Blu-ray Review
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Bad Acting. Bad dialogue. Bad movie, right? Not quite. There are exceptions. The Majorettes, starring Kevin Kindlin, Terrie Godfrey, Mark Jevicky, and Thomas E. Desrocher, is one of those. This psychosexual charged flick owes much of its creative prowess to its creators’ ...
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And so we come to the blatant rip-off. Perhaps that’s too harsh. After all, there are some interesting things in the mechanics of Larry Stewart’s slasher (the finale inside the multi-level Dallas Market Center being one), but not enough to keep audiences focused on its ...
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Bubba Ho-Tep and I have finally made up. I get it. I finally get why the movie absolutely works and why my punk-ass comments when it was originally released were so naïve. To borrow a line from from Gatsby's Nick Carraway, “in my younger and more vulnerable years”I was a complete ...
Read more: Bubba Ho-Tep: Collector's Edition (2002) - Blu-ray Review
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Ha, Criterion Collection. It seems that little April Fools Day joke (back in 2011) has come to bite you in the ass. C.H.U.D. has made it to blu-ray! There was a time in America when we surrendered to the idea of nuclear war. It was bound to happen. Why fight it? This attitude ...
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I first saw Dario Argento’s Phenomena when it was released here in the United States as Creepers. That version – heavily edited by 30-minutes (for no other reason than to save Americans from actually thinking) – was essentially one long music video. Goblin and Simon ...
Read more: Phenomena: Limited Edition Collector’s SteelBook (1985) - Blu-ray Review
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Morbidly Hollywood
- Colorado Street Suicide Bridge
- Death of a Princess - The Story of Grace Kelly's Fatal Car Crash
- Joaquin Phoenix 911 Call - River Phoenix - Viper Room
- Screen Legend Elizabeth Taylor Dies at 79
- Suicide and the Hollywood Sign - The Girl Who Jumped from the Hollywood Sign
- The Amityville Horror House
- The Black Dahlia Murder - The Death of Elizabeth Short
- The Death of Actress Jane Russell
- The Death of Brandon Lee
- The Death of Chris Farley
- The Death of Dominique Dunne
- The Death of George Reeves - the Original Superman