Bert I. Gordon, who, along with Roger Corman were two major pioneers of the low-budget B-movie genre which took place during the mid-late 1950s. The two made, at first, movies with man-sized creatures or giant beasts, with the shoddiest of effects and the slimmest of budgets. Bert I. Gordon, who continued to make monster movies…
Konga Blu ray review
If Gorgo was The United Kingdom’s answer to Godzilla, then Konga was most likely their answer to King Kong. Konga is the story of Dr. Charles Decker (Michael Gough), a well-renowned scientist and botanist who has returned from Africa with man-eating plants and a friendly chimpanzee that he uses for a size growing experiment. The…
Dr. Cyclops Blu ray review
After watching Doctor Cyclops on television in the middle of the night over thirty years ago, I instantly became of fan of this film and watch it often. I’ve had this movie on my shelf in all formats, twice on DVD and now on Blu-ray. Based on a short story of the same name by…
Blu-ray Review: A Snake of June (Third Window)
Rinko (Asuka Kurosawa) is a phone counselor at a suicide prevention hotline, and married to Shigehiko, a cleanliness obsessed salaryman who tends to spend a lot of time away from the apartment, so much so that he and Rinko are more like roommates than a married couple. That being said their relationship on the surface…
DVD Review: A Saint, A Woman, A Devil (Vinegar Syndrome)
Originally released under the title (Sylvia). This Is possibly one of the oddest, weirdest, craziest Grindhouse, sexplotation type of films that one would ever see or ever try to comprehend. The weirdness of it is perfect and the strange reality of what it captures holds the viewer in all of it’s odd and surreal atmosphere….
Blu-ray Review: A THOUSAND AND ONE EROTIC NIGHTS/ A THOUSAND AND ONE EROTIC NIGHTS 2: THE FORBIDDEN TALES (Vinegar Syndrome)
After discovering his wife is cheating on him, The Sultan (John Leslie) requests a wild night with a concubine named Scheherezade (Annette Haven) to forget his troubles. The only problem is afterward the poor woman is set to be killed. So in an effort to spare her life, she tells the Sultan a series of…
Blu-ray Review: My Son (Cohen)
Julien (Guillaume Canet) is called back to hometown for a family crisis. His 7-year-old son has gone missing during a camping weekend. The police first think it’s a simple case of a runaway, but Julien has his doubts. His ex-wife (Melanie Laurent) tells him that she is pregnant with another man’s baby and that maybe…
Blu-ray Review: Legend of the Demon Cat (Well Go USA)
Strange happenings start when a mysterious talking black cat show up to the Imperial Court. The whole kingdom gets shaken up when the wife of a General is suddenly possessed by an ancient demon that is hellbent on revenge. But an eccentric duo of a Japanese Monk, with a fondness for exorcisms, and an oddball…
Blu-ray Review: First Love (Well Go USA)
A successful young boxer named Leo (Masataka Kubota) discovers that he may be terminally ill with a brain tumor. His night soon gets worse when he saves a screaming woman and knocks out her attacker. But this is the first in a downward spiral of mayhem. First, the woman is actually a young hooker who…
Blu-ray Review: 10th Victim, The (Blue Underground)
I have been a fan of Marcello Mastroianni since I first saw 8 1/2 in film school. That first viewing made that film one of my top 10 favorite films of all time, and Marcello one of the greatest actors of the ’60s in my eyes. That being said I never fully explored his filmography,…