Dr. Stewart and her colleagues are seeking a long sought-after treasure but some villains employing ninjas -both the living kind and the undead kind- stand in their way. It’s up to government agent and martial arts expert Magneta Faze (William Lee) and his teenage genius sidekick Monique to save the day. That’s two sentences of…
Back Street(1961) Blu-ray review
Imagine being in a relationship with someone that you will not have a future with but decide to be with that person anyway because you love him or her so much. That’s what we have here in the 1961 film, Back Street. Back Street is the tragic love story about a couple who cannot be…
Blu-ray Review – House on Sorority Row – MVD Rewind
Horror seems to become popular in waves. Every decade or so some movie seemingly reinvents the wheel of what is scary for the time. This decade for example has seen the rise of Saw inspired “torture porn,” and Americanized versions of foreign (especially Japanese) horror films. In the 90’s it was the pseudo-giallo Scream rip…
Blu-ray Review – Cannibal Man – Severin/Subkultur
Review and Notes on Subkultur Edition by Tyler MillerUpdated Comments on Severin Edition by Scott MacDonald Marcos (Vicente Parra) is a lonely slaughterhouse worker, who seems to be just drifting through life. He dreams of having a higher paying job, and marrying his girlfriend Paula (Emma Cohen). One night after a heated date, the two…
UHD Review – Two Evil Eyes – Blue Underground
In the late 1980’s Dario Argento and George Romero tried to work together to create an anthology horror film based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Initially they were going to get 4 directors together, but ended up just making 2 short films at the length of one hour each between Romero and Argento….
UHD Review – Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Bird with the Crystal Plumage is the debut film by director Dario Argento. It is not the first film in the giallo genre, having been preceded by nearly a decade by Mario Bava’s Blood and Black Lace and The Girl Who Knew Too Much. That being said the film pretty much put the giallo into…
I Wouldn’t Be in Your Shoes Blu-ray review
Imagine being accused of murder because you wore a certain pair of dancing shoes. Well, that’s what happened here in the 1948 American crime film with the classic title, I Wouldn’t Be in Your Shoes. In this movie, you probably wouldn’t! I Wouldn’t Be in Your Shoes is a crime drama about a Tom Quinn…
The Last Man on Earth Blu-ray ( Kino Lorber release)
Movies about plagues and pandemics with a few survivors used to be a lot of fun to watch in the “reel” world until a real pandemic hit over a year ago. Okay, they are still fun and enjoyable to watch, and taught us how to survive but viewing films like this today does add a…
Book Review – Devil’s Advocates: Daughters of Darkness
Young and attractive newlyweds, Stefan and Valerie, are approached while on their honeymoon by the mesmerizing Countess Elizabeth Báthory and her lovely companion, Ilona. Spoiler alert: the Countess and Ilona are vampires! There are many cheap, unremarkable, and just plain bad vampire films from the 1970s (and I myself love almost all of them). But…
Take Me Out to the Ball Game Blu-ray review
Take Me Out to the Ball Game, aka Everybody’s Cheering is a 1949 Technicolor musical comedy film starring the iconic singer-actor Frank Sinatra along with Gene Kelly and Ester Williams. The film is directed by Busby Berkeley, who was known for choreography in musicals and dance numbers such as 42nd Street and Footlight Parade. The…