The triple feature, ahem, sorry. I meant to say triple frightmare. The three movies contained in this release are all very short, one under thirty minutes and two around an hour. The run time is padded a little with AGFA’s always entertaining drive-in mode where they intersperse clips and trailers from old drive-in showings. Two…
2020 Texas Gladiators [Severin Films] 4K UHD Review
It’s the end of the world in Texas. Nisus (Al Cliver) along with the rest of his gang including Jab (Harrison Muller), Halakron (Peter Hooten), Red Wolfe (Hal Yamanouchi) and Catch Dog (Daniel Stephen) travel around trying to salvage what’s left of this hellhole by helping others (kind of…eventually). After Catch Dog attempts to rape…
The Howling 2: Your Sister Is a Werewolf [Vinegar Syndrome] 4k/Blu-ray review
In 1981, The Howling and An American Werewolf in London brought werewolves back into the zeitgeist and studios were seeing dollar signs. The Howling was a Joe Dante film that was a enough of a success to land him the gig directing Gremlins. Obviously, The Howling needed a sequel. Enter Australian filmmaker, Philipe Mora. What…
The Block Island Sound [Synapse Films] 4K UHD Review
Tom Lynch (Neville Archambault) is a fisherman that lives on the Block Island Sound with his son Harry (Chris Sheffield). Gradually Tom starts behaving very strangely, taking the boat out in the middle of night and not remembering what was happening as well as other erratic and unstable shifts of mood. Meanwhile, hundreds of dead…
Hard Wood: The Adult Features of Ed Wood [Severin] Blu-Ray Review
Ed Wood is a director who needs no introduction, but despite being the schlock visionary of such “films” as Plan 9 from Outer Space and Bride of the Monster, Wood’s later years were plagued with financial difficulties, alcoholism and depression which dampened his creativity, forcing him to mostly get by on writing porno novels. In…
Poverty Row Classics – King of the Zombies / Miss V from Moscow Blu-ray review
VCI Entertainment has released a Blu-ray with a pair of low-budget grade Z movies, King of the Zombies and Miss V from Moscow as part of a ‘Poverty Row Collection’. I know there are plenty of fans, including myself that love these types of pictures, and are happy to see them get a little Blu-ray…
Last Shadow at First Light [Indiepix] DVD Review
Sixteen-year-old Ami (Mihaya Shirata) is a Singaporean teen haunted by the echoes of the mysterious disappearance of her mother in the wake of the cataclysmic tsunami that tore through eastern Asia in 2011. Her dreams torment her leading her to seek answers from her father who initially acts very cagey and emotionally shut down. He…
The Ghost Dance [Vinegar Syndrome] Blu-ray Review
The late 70s and early 80s were considered the golden age of the slasher film. With a saturated market of low-budget slashers, a lot of well-crafted horror movies did not get the attention that they normally would have. The Ghost Dance is a slasher that revolves around a Native American killer with supernatural elements that…
The Cat and The Canary (1927) [Eureka! The Masters of Cinema Series] Blu-ray Review
The Cat and the Canary is a 1927 silent film based on a stage play by John Willard. The film version is described as being in the “horror/comedy” genres. There are multiple film adaptations of this play, one including Bob Hope. The 1927 version was directed by Paul Leni, a German director responsible for Waxworks,…
The Warrior and the Blind Swordsman/The Warrior and the Ninja [Mondo Macabro] Blu-ray Review
The Warrior series started off with a bang. When I saw the opportunity to review the sequels, I jumped at the chance. Mondo Macabro released them both in a Blu-ray double feature. The first of these sequels is “The Warrior and the Blind Swordsman”. The character of Jaka Sembung is back but the movie focuses…