If you like Brazilian exploitation films with graphic softcore porn scenes, The Rape of Virgin Girls is just for you! Also known as Violentadores de Meninas Virgens, The Rape of Virgin Girls is the story of a group of wealthy, perverted men who hire a pimp to provide them with virgin women with them and…
Ben Reads the Horror Classics: Bloody Guns on the Borderland
In the last entry, I know I started with a fancy intro talking about weird fiction that might have led you to believe I was going to get all high falootin’ trying to educate you on history and stuff. Well, fret not, dear folks! I am far too lazy to do that kind of intro…
Fury (1936) Blu-ray review
Fury is a 1936 drama directed by Fritz Lang (The Big Heat) and stars screen legends Silvia Sidney and the great Spencer Tracy in one his greatest roles. Both actors had film careers that lasted for over 40 years! Fury is the tale of vengeance and morality of an innocent man who is nearly killed….
Blu-ray Review – Ticks – Vinegar Syndrome
Jarvis (Clint Howard) is growing a very special marijuana crop using an experimental steroid he’s concocted. Unfortunately, the machine he uses to produce this particularly volatile chemical is all kinds of leaky and it drips on some tick eggs in his cellar. Now the surrounding forest is chock full of super ticks just in time…
Demons & Demons 2 Limited Edition Blu-ray Double Feature
Hot off the presses from Synapse Films comes a groovy new transfer of a pair of delightfully demented Italian horror fantasias. Pick up your samurai sword, hop on your motorcycle and join me in the theater for a disarmingly demonic good time. The Plot: Directed by Lamberto Bava, the son of a gothic horror legend…
Lullaby of Broadway
Lullaby of Broadway is a Technicolor musical romantic comedy film from 1951. This features the iconic song “Lullaby of Broadway” that we’ve all heard before somewhere in our lives. The film stars the legendary singer and actress Doris Day (The Man Who Knew Too Much) as Melinda Howard, an entertainer who travels to New York…
Party Girl (1958) Blu-ray review
Party Girl is a 1958 musical film noir directed by Nicholas Ray and starring screen legends Robert Taylor, Lee J. Cobb and Cyd Charisse. This Noir as shot in Cinemascope and during the hard-hitting action, there are musical numbers to also entertain you. Taking place in Chicago during the 1930’s, Party Girl is a tale…
Vera Cruz (Kino Lorber) Blu-ray review
Vera Cruz is a Western from 1954 starring a pair of screen legends in Burt Lancaster and Gary Cooper and future icon Charles Bronson. Directed by Robert Aldrich, he pushes the bar with characters that don’t care about right or wrong and has a shocking scene where Bert Lancaster’s character threatens to murder child hostages….
Blu-ray Review – Nothing Underneath/Too Beautiful to Die – Vinegar Syndrome
Nothing Underneath (1985) is the story of Bob Boyle, a boy whose parents just moved to New England- woops, wrong Bob! This film is about Bob Crane (Tom Schanley), a Yellowstone (or Giallostone if you will) National Park ranger, who travels to Milan to find out what happened to his twin sister after he psychically…
Blu-ray Review – The Chinese Boxer – 88 Films
After being expelled from his kung-fu school for being a total suckass, Diao (Hsiung Chao) returns from Japan having trained in Judo for several years. His goal is to destroy the school and start his own (with a gambling house next door as a side hustle). Luckily, the master of the school beats Diao’s ass…