When I first became a true cinephile almost 20 years ago, one of the first areas I began to explore was the French New Wave. I was fascinated by a group of film critics and writers who transitioned to some of the most impactful directors in the history of the medium. One of my favorites…
Old Dracula (Vinegar Syndrome) Blu-ray Review
Count Dracula (David Niven) is laying low in the modern-day. He enjoys his quiet time but finds the rest of the world to be a weird and alienating place. He grows more and more lonesome without his wife, Vampira, at his side. His castle is now a tourist attraction and vampires are “hip”. So hip…
Blu-ray Review – Beautiful Bones Sakurako’s Investigation (Sentai Filmworks)
OK, I love a nice atmospheric mystery series and Sentai Filmworks have just released one in the form of Beautiful Bones: Sakurako’s Investigations based on the light novel series by Shiori Ota. The series is 12 episodes long, and is compromised of a series of individual short mystery stories, and also a series of 2-parters….
Flesh-Eating Mothers (Vinegar Syndrome) Blu-ray review
A small town in Upstate New York becomes infected with a strange virus that makes all the women hungry for human meat. A pack of “wild” Teenagers soon discover that they now have Flesh Eating Mothers! I’m not a huge fan of horror comedies. I enjoy most of the classics, but when it comes to…
Aenigma (Severin) Blu-ray Review
A bunch of stuck up jerks at a private school decide to play a cruel prank on Kathy (Milijana Zirojevic), the cleaning lady’s daughter and least popular girl among the student body. They set her up on a date with a hunk and then humiliate her as soon as she lets her guard down. It…
Mikey (MVD) Blu-ray Review
11-year-old Mikey (Brian Bonsall) seems like the most adoptable orphan in the world. He’s smart, he’s cute, and will look good on next year’s family Christmas card. There’s just one little problem with Mikey. If he doesn’t get his way, he will go on a murderous rampage, make it look like an accident, and then…
Fulci for Fake Blu-ray Review
Actor Sandro Bitetto is hired to play Italian horror director Lucio Fulci in a film about his life. The problem is that he doesn’t know jack squat about the “Godfather of Gore”. So, he goes around interviewing Fulci movie experts, his former colleagues in the Italian film industry, and even the man’s daughters to help…
The Sign of the Cross Blu-ray review
The Sign of the Cross is a pre-code biblical film from iconic director Cecil B. DeMille, the man behind some of the greatest classic films in cinema including Reap the Wild Wind, Samson and Delilah and The Ten Commandments. This picture stars three of the best performers in cinema, Fredric March (Dr. Jekyll and Mr….
The Eleventh Commandment Blu-ray review
Paul Leder, a director responsible for some seriously so bad its good schlock films on his resume including A*P*E and I Dismember Mama and a few mediocre films such as My Friends Need Killing is back it again with another average thriller called The Eleventh Commandment. This yarn is about Robert Knight (Bernard White, The…
She Shoulda Said ‘No’ & The Devil’s Sleep Blu-ray review
Kino Lorber taps into the Something Weird Video vaults once again as they have released a pair of 1949 exploitation films on Blu-ray. She Should’a Said “No” aka Wild Weed and The Devils Sleep. These two films are what is included in Volume 6 of the Forbidden Fruit series. Both films are a throwback to…