“Radu, I will get you a sacrifice for tonight.” Goth maids being disemboweled, freelance foot fetishes on display, helpless damsels tied up and struggling or strangled to death, mermaids rising from quicksand like a phoenix taking flight, gabby gossip, a long-haired naked beauty shrunk and eaten and a good ol’ fashioned mummy dungeon are some…
Severin Films – Mid Year Sale – Blu-ray/UHD Reviews
Twice a year for the last few years, Severin has put together an epic sale for fans of the label to pick up backlog items they have missed at solid prices, while at the same launching an epic swath of amazing cult cinema at a waiting fanbase. This year’s mid-year sale is no different in…
Pulsating Peplums, Manic Mondos and Sexy Subversions: A 1960s Italian Genre Marathon
As a follow-up to my previous marathon of Italian genre films of the ’70s, I thought I’d step back in time and do the same for the swinging ’60s. While the blood and gore might not be as generous in this decade, the Italians still hopped from genre to genre with shameless aplomb, latching onto…
Blu-ray Review – Hero Mask – Sentai Filmworks
Hero Mask is the latest Blu-ray release to come from Sentai Filmworks that was a “Netflix Original” anime. I hate to say these have been more miss than hit, but for the most part I feel that way. This one is a Sci-Fi Actioner, with a crime plot running through it, and well it has…
Blu-ray Review – Karakuri Circus – Sentai Filmworks
Karakuri Circus is a 36 episode shonen anime that is conceptually interesting. It is based on a manga that ran for 43 volumes starting in the late 90’s, and ending in 2006. Needless to say that leaves a lot to be left on the proverbial cutting room floor even when the series runs for a…
Blu-ray Review – Nightmare Alley (Criterion)
Nightmare Alley is a film I was introduced to back in the 90’s after reading an old interview with the Ramones where it was stated this was an older favorite film of the band, and an inspiration behind the song “Suzy is a Headbanger”. The Ramones being a band I haven’t gone a week without…
Confuso e nervoso in una stanza buia: A ’70s Italian Genre Marathon
So I got the notion in my head to watch a genre film every year from 1920 to 2021 this month. While I probably won’t post about all of them, I thought I’d at least publish a couple of decades of my watches for shits ‘n’ giggles. To start it all off, I chose that…
Blu-ray Review – Supernatural Season 15 (Warner)
It’s been an impressive fifteen years and a whopping 327 episodes, but we’re here at last: the final season of Supernatural has landed on physical media. No one saw this coming, I’d wager—least of all me. Who would have expected this quirky WB show to amass such a devoted fanbase, to sustain itself for so…
Messalina / Messalina Venere Imperatrice Blu-ray review
British actress Belinda Lee, who passed away much too young, plays the lead role as Messlina in director Vittorio Cottafavi’s 1960 Italian sword and sandal film Messalina (aka Messalina Venere Imperatrice) which was one of her final films. In this story, Valeria Messalina is arranged to be married to an older man Claudius, who just…
Blu-ray Review – Howl of the Devil – Mondo Macabro
We had a few Paul Naschy flicks make it to domestic DVD. But it feels as time goes on, we have received a rainfall of Naschy’s work on the Blu-ray format. Now, we’re starting to get films from Naschy that I NEVER anticipated seeing outside of awful bootlegs like the latest Mondo Macabro release of…