The Gay Girls Riding Club was a group of likeminded individuals that produced several films that were a huge hit in the underground gay and drag clubs of the 1960s. Their founder and director of said films, Ray Harrison AKA Connie B. De Mille, perfectly captures a snapshot of the vivacious and gloriously irreverent LA-based…
Ben Reads the Horror Classics: Folklore in Blood
Welcome to another chapter in my on-going quest to read a ton of horror novels that are supposed to be good. In this entry, I’ve got a gory slice of teen lit terror, an imaginative collection of tales inspired by Caribbean folklore, a genre-defining vampire classic, an intense modern take on demon possession and a…
Vinland Saga (Season 1) Complete Collection Blu-ray Review
On August 31, 2021, Sentai Filmworks unveiled on blu-ray the first season of the critically acclaimed viking epic Vinland Saga. Grab an axe and a pint of ale and join me on a bloody crusade of vengeance! The Plot: A young boy named Thorfinn lives his days in peace in a small village outside the…
Blu-ray Review – A Day of Judgement – Severin Films
Sometime in the 1920s, the inhabitants of a small town are struggling financially and morally in their (comically miserable) daily lives. The local bringer of bummer, Reverend Cage (Charles Reynolds and not Nicholas Cage), is tired of watching his congregation dwindle and is set to retire. Luckily for him, the Angel of Death has rolled…
Straight Time Blu-ray review
Based on Edward Bunker’s 1972 novel No Beast So Fierce, Ulu Gosbard’s Straight Time is the tale of a man who gets paroled but is unable to go straight. The man also gets involved with a woman who doesn’t mind his criminal ways, if she doesn’t get involved in them. Max Dembo (screen legend Dustin…
Blu-ray Review – Resurrection – Vinegar Syndrome
Detective John Prudhomme (Christopher Lambert), who is both Chicagoan and Cajun, is still mourning the death of his son who died in a terrible accident when he gets put on the case of some vicious serial murders. The killer is a religious fanatic cutting the limbs from his victims one at a time in order…
Blu-ray Review – Tough Guys Don’t Dance – Vinegar Syndrome
Failed writer/successful alcoholic Tim Madden (Ryan O’Neal) wakes up with a wicked hangover and discovers his father (Lawrence Tierney) sitting in his kitchen. Tim tells his dad all about the total insanity of the last couple of weeks, including but not limited to a multi-million-dollar cocaine deal, murder, infidelity, a severed head, and a big…
Ben Reads the Horror Classics: Terror in 3D
This time on Ben Reads the Horror Classics, I tackle a classic of absurdist existentialism, an epic 19th century tale amidst the Spanish Inquisition, an imaginative graphic novel on xenophobia, a hybrid of historical fiction and Arctic horror that will leave you chilled to the bone and a seminal anthology by some of the most…
Tabletop Review – Anomaly – Tabletop Tycoon (Starling Games)
Anomaly by Starling Games -Ryan Miller I have very little experience with deduction and hidden movement based games. I played AEG’s fantastic Ninja: Legend of the Scorpion Clan long ago when(back when L5R was still fun), but beyond that, I can’t say I have much exposure to them. I want to thank Starling Games for…
Blu-ray Review – Death Screams – Arrow Video
The tranquility of a quiet town (located somewhere in the North Carolinian zone) is shattered when a crazed killer goes on a rampage, slaughtering the teen population. Woops, I kind of wrote myself into a corner with that one sentence plot summary. Damn it! There’s also a lengthy carnival sequence and adult-aged teenagers telling stories…