Chih-Hung Kuei was one of Shaw Studios’ best directors in the ‘70s and ‘80s and their go-to for horror and exploitation fare. At the time, he rarely garnered the success or praise that more well-known Shaw Bros. filmmakers like Chang Cheh and Chia-Liang Liu received, but over the years, his films have built an impressive…
Blu-ray Review – The Fear – Vinegar Syndrome
Richard (Eddie Bowz) is finishing up his degree in psychology and his final thesis is about fear. But instead of writing some stuffy old paper, he’s gonna stage a fear experiment with his friends and some strangers as guinea pigs at a remote cabin. This would be a terrible idea under the best circumstances, but…
Blu-ray Review – Rush Week – Vinegar Syndrome
Jeff (Dean Hamilton) is the hunky but moody head of BDB, a fraternity’s whose chief goal seems to be to traumatize as many people -including the audience of this film- as possible, and he’s set his sights on Toni (Pamela Ludwig), the new reporter for the school paper. At first, Toni ain’t too sure about…
The Undoing – 2020 Mini Series Blu-ray review
The Undoing is a 2020 television mini-series that features a few screen legends in Donald Sutherland, Hugh Grant and Nicole Kidman. If you want to see a successful family get torn to pieces, then this is the film for you! The story is nothing more than a modern day who-done-it tale which to some degree…
Blu-ray Review – Masculin Feminin (Criterion)
I hate to get all personal when writing reviews, but when I was in film school in the early 2000’s I went through a French New Wave obsessive phase, especially the early films of Jean-Luc Godard. This mixed with the New York independents of the 80’s like Jim Jarmusch, Spike Lee, Hal Hartley, Frank Henenlotter,…
DVD Review – Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In – The Complete Series
Before there was Saturday Night Live and beating Monty Python’s Flying Circus by a year (more years if you count how long it took to import it to America) was Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In. Dick Martin and Dan Rowan’s sketch comedy show was not the first sketch comedy show to hit American airwaves, not by…
Tabletop Review – Dungeons & Dragons – Candlekeep Mysteries – Wizards of the Coast
Candlekeep Mysteries is the Dungeons & Dragons book I have personally been waiting for… Sort of. When I got back into D&D during 5E I was admittedly without content to play with, Wizards of the Coast has made sure players had LOADS of campaign content, Curse of Strahd, Icewind Dale, Prince of the Apocalypse, and…
Gutter Trash Maestros Presents: Joe D’Amato
D’Am-AY-to, D’Am-AH-to. However ya say it, his films smell just as sweet. Actually, nevermind what his films may smell like (although I can probably imagine…). Joe D’Amato is the Italian director responsible for countless horror, action, adventure, western, erotic and actual hardcore pornographic flicks from the early ‘70s up until his unexpected death in 1999…
Blu-ray Review – Last Gasp – Vinegar Syndrome
While trying to build a luxurious resort in the jungles of Mexico, Leslie Chase (Robert Patrick) is forced to halt construction because a nearby indigenous tribe is sacrificing his workers. He calls in some local muscle to wipe the tribe out but one of them gets away and comes after him. After killing his attacker,…
Doctor X Blu-ray review (Warner Archive Collection)
Every October when I exclusively watch horror movies to celebrate the Halloween season, Doctor X is one of the films that I always watch. Known for its line “synthetic flesh” the creature in this picture is nothing short of hideous and is spookier than most, including those in contemporary horror cinema! Based on the play…