Besties, Leonore (Sandra Mozarowsky) and Sylvia (Victoria Vera), dream of getting out of their finishing school/orphanage someday. Their lives are pretty miserable thanks to the domineering headmistress, Miss Wilkins (Norma Kastel), who doles out cruel (and kinda kinky) punishments for the smallest infractions. Their best chance of happiness is becoming maids for rich people. What…
Taisho Baseball Girls [Sentai Filmworks Blu-ray] Review
Sentai Filmworks has re-issued their out-of-print blu-ray release of Taisho Baseball Girls with new cover art just in time for baseball season. Batter up! The year is 1925 and Japan is in the midst of change. Women are on the verge of asserting themselves more in a culture that has historically viewed them as subservient…
The Three Musketeers (1948) Blu-ray review
All for one and one for all! George Sidney’s The Three Musketeers is one of many screen adaptations of Alexandre Dumas’ 1844 novel under the same name. This version stars several screen legends and icons with Lana Turner, Gene Kelly, Van Heflin, Vincent Price, Gig Young and Gene Kelly, who here is in a non-singing…
School of Death Blu-ray review
School of Death aka El colegio de la Muerte is a Spanish horror thriller about a mad doctor lobotomizes women for sleazy purposes. The film was an obscurity for quite some time and after watching it, it should have stayed in the land of obscure films. Taking place in London in 1899, an orphanage sends…
Ben Reads the Horror Classics: The Other Great God of Communion is Talented but Drowning
As the chill of winter gives way to warm and inviting showers of early spring, we arrive at another installment of this seemingly endless quest to consume as much horror fiction as possible. This time, we have the dark fantasies of one of the kings of weird fiction, a “true” story of horrifying alien abduction,…
Blu-ray Review – Beware! Children at Play – Vinegar Syndrome
The town of Ellenburg has probably faced harder times before, but nothing as bad as when their children started disappearing. A couple dozen youngsters have just vanished into the woods and rumors of goblins AKA “woodies” and strange sounds in the trees are the only clues that Sheriff Hamilton has got to go on. When…
Edge of Darkness (1943) Blu-ray review
Based on William Wood novel that was released one year prior, Lewis Milestone’s 1943 wartime drama Edge of Darkness, tells a tale of a German-occupied Norwegian village of Trollness where villagers have decided to fight back against them. It all begins when German soldiers fly over the village of Trollness, where they stop to investigate…
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm Blu-ray review
One of the great fantasy film’s by George Pal isThe Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm .The picture is a 1962 fantasy film directed by Henry Levin and George Pal with an amazing cast that includes Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Barbara Eden Yvette Mimieux, Russ Tamblyn and Jim Backus, just to name a few. It…
Miller’s Crossing [Criterion Collection Blu-ray] Review
Criterion starts up a rumpus by bringing the Coen Brothers gangster classic to blu-ray in a nice new 2K restoration with some spiffy new extras in tow. Let’s try not to give ’em the high hat as take a walk in some dangerous woods. Prohibition is is full force and Leo O’Bannon (Albert Finney) is…
Ane Log: Complete Collection [Sentai Filmworks Blu-ray] Review
Sentai Filmworks brings to blu-ray a treatise on self-actualization via the process of transubstantiation of the mind to obtain ultimate enlightenment. Nah, I’m just kiddin’. Let’s dive into this super pervy 3-part OVA! Akira is Mayoko’s younger brother. Ever since a casual statement from Akira when they were kids that he wanted to marry Mayoko…