I’m back again after a break for Thanksgiving and to give our annual gift guide some time to breathe! In this group of macabre offerings, I tackle a couple of great collections from a master of the horror short story, a pile of Goosebumps sequels, one of the all-time classic horror novels, a gothic novel…
EuroCultAV – Holiday Gift Guide 2022 – Page 1 – Blu-ray, UHD, DVD
Written by the staff of EuroCultAV – Scott MacDonald, David Steigman, Richard Glenn Schmidt, and Ben Tucker I know it’s a cliché at this point, but I feel like I just did this, but here we are again. Another year as past in the pop culture verse, the universe is expanding, and ECAV is here…
EuroCultAV Gift Guide 2022 – Page 2 – Tabletop Gaming, Books, and Music
MIND MGMT (Off The Page Games) Mind Mgmt is a hidden movement game based off the comic book of the same name. If you’ve seen David Cronenberg’s seminal Scanners you have a kinda, sort of touch off point for the story of the comic (psychic warfare, espionage). The game, however is quickly shooting up to…
Wild West Days Blu-ray review
Based on the novel by W.R. Burnett, Wild West Days is a 13-chapter serial from Universal Studios. This 1937 serial was directed by Ford Beebe (The Phantom Creeps) and Clifford Smith (Secret Agent X-9). In this serial, Kentucky Wade (screen legend Johnny Mack Brown, The Oregon Trail, Female, A Woman of Affairs), Dude Hanford, Mike…
French Noir Collection Blu-ray review
For those that like French films and Noirs, Kino Lorber has assembled a trio of French Noir films for a Blu-ray release, called the French Noir Collection, which houses Speaking of Murder, Back to the Wall and Witness in the City. This is their first French Noir set offering on Blu-ray from Kino as far…