The best exploitation movies, the ones that really stick with you long after the end credits roll, often conceal within their hard-coated shell of violence and sex the sweet, nurturing candy of the ugly truth. That’s how I see it anyway. Mark of the Devil, infamous for its U.S. marketing campaign that promoted it with…
Mindwarp (Twilight Time) Blu-ray review
Fangoria Films seemed like an amazing idea when I first heard of the concept as a kid. America’s Number 1 horror magazine getting into the production, and distribution of actual horror films I thought to myself,how could it possibly go wrong? Fangoria Magazine especially when I was younger was like my bible into horror in…
Mosquito (Synapse) Blu-ray Review
Visual effects artist Gary Jones (Army of Darkness, Moontrap) made his directorial debut with 1995’s Mosquito, an entertaining tongue-in-cheek homage to the giant monster and killer bug B-movies of yesteryear. Jones’ labor of love receives its long-awaited debut on Blu-ray courtesy of Synapse Films with a beautifully upgraded transfer and some terrific supplements that dig…
Blu-ray Review – Tales from the Darkside – The Movie (Scream Factory)
I can still recall as a kid in the 80’s older kids in my neighborhood talking about the show Tales from the Darkside as if it was scariest thing ever. Considering that we only had one small video store in the neighborhood with a limited and inaccessible horror selection to us (run by my soccer…
Blu-ray Review – Gemini (Mondo Macabro)
I know that the almost legendary Asian film distro Third Window Films has released many of Shinya Tsukamoto’s films to Blu-ray format previously. However, in the last 3 months with the insanely near comprehensive box set by Arrow Video Tsukamoto box set, and now the outstanding Gemini release by the iconic Mondo Macabro it truly…
Blu-ray Review – Why The Hell Are You Here, Teacher?
Some of my favorite director’s (non-anime) are cats like Jess Franco, Walerian Borowczyk, Jean Rollin, so admittedly I like sleazy stuff. I don’t mean like directly hardcore porn stuff, because that’s almost too easy, like shooting fish in a barrel, but stuff that just carries a cool sleazy vibe to it. So when I saw…
Blu-ray Review – Run With the Wind – Complete Collection (Sentai Filmworks)
I am not athletic by nature, and to double down a bit I really really hate sports. Watching them, playing them, the whole she-bang. Running has always been a task for me, I remember in middle school and high school in gym classes we’d have to run “the mile”, and my friends and I would…
Solid Metal Nightmares: The Films of the Shinya Tsukamoto (Arrow) Blu-ray review
Solid Metal Nightmares: The Films of the Shinya Tsukamoto is one of the best home video releases of 2020. It may be a little early to say this (it’s August as I write this), but this is my favorite release of the year. This boxset is a love letter to one of the most transgressive…
Blu-ray Review – American Rickshaw (Cauldron)
College student Scott Edwads (Mitchell Gaylord) is trying to make ends meet by covering his injured best bud Daniel’s (Glenn Maska) shift as a rickshaw driver while his broken leg heals. One rainy day, he helps a kindly Chinese woman named Madame Luna (Michi Kobi) and her Siamese cat get from the bus stop to…
Son of Ali Baba Blu-ray review
Son of Ali Baba is a fantasy adventure film starring one iconic actor (Tony Curtis) one iconic actress (Piper Laurie) and directed by Kurt Neuman, the man responsible for The Fly and other whacky sci-fi B pictures. In Son of Ali Baba, Curtis plays, Kashma Baba, son of a thief from Baghdad, Ali Baba (Morris…