Do you like your bust-a-gut, rolling-around-on-the-floor, so-funny-it-hurts alternative British comedy? No? Piss off then! Still here? Good. Because Severin has just delivered up a heaping helping of tasty treats in blu-ray disc form (WARNING: DO NOT EAT BLU-RAY) that is guaranteed to give you the guffaws at least a time or two throughout the three…
Danza Macabra Vol. One: The Italian Gothic Collection – Blu-ray Review (Severin Films)
If you’re anything like me -and for your sake, I hope you’re not- then you’re a fan of Italian gothic horror, a devotee of the candelabra, a Babs Steele stan, a see-through gown in a moonlit graveyard enthusiast, etc. The Italian gothics can be enjoyed on a dark and stormy night or a lazy Sunday…
Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal: The Complete Second Season Blu-ray [WB]
Hacking and slashing it’s way through a swath of gore and anger comes Season Two of Genndy Tartakovsky (Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Star Wars: Clone Wars)’s ode to Robert E. Howard and Edgar Rice Burroughs, Primal on blu-ray from Warner Bros. and [adult swim]. Could this be Tartakovsky’s finest production? For those who may not…
Extra Terrestrial Visitors Blu-ray Review [Severin]
Coming in June from Severin Films is the gloriously bizarre Extra Terrestrial Visitors a.k.a. Tales of Trumpy a.k.a. E.T.: The Second Coming a.k.a. The Unearthling a.k.a. Return of E.T., although Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans will know it much better by it’s original US home video release title Pod People). We were lambasted with many…
Blu-ray Review – In the Line of Duty (88 Films)
I’m not sure if 88 Films just got lucky or if this was planned, but between Super Cop and the In the Line of Duty Box Set, the company sure has a lot of Michelle Yeoh out in the year that the most well deserved actress has become an Oscar winner. Regardless of the reasoning,…
Blu-ray and 4K UHD Jackie Chan-Mania (Shout Factory and 88 Films)
So it’s been a wild few months for Jackie Chan releases between Shout Factory’s Jackie Chan Collection Volume 2 (1983-1993) and 88 Films Police Story III Supercop 4K UHD release. Between the two sets I am in an ecstatic place as far as our favorite Hong Kong funnyman goes. It has been more than a…
Violent Streets: The Umberto Lenzi/Tomas Milian Collection Blu-ray Box Set Review [Severin]
Severin Films is no stranger to delivering the goods when it comes to quenching your eurosploitation thirst. And let me tell you that HOT DAWG does this one hit the spot! Severin has graced us with a hefty, sturdy box with a very nice design that is chock full of poliziotteschi goodness, all directed by…
House of Terrors – Blu-ray Review (Mondo Macabro)
Yoshie (Yûko Kusunoki) receives news that her husband has died under mysterious circumstances. Then she finds out that he had a mistress AND even had a creepy old villa out in the middle of nowhere that she’s inherited. You take the good. You take the bad. You take them both and then you have… the…
Ben Reads the Horror Classics: All Heads Look Inward and Weep
It’s May! Spring has sprung and those hits just keep on coming. In this installment, we have a classic paranormal detective, a family dynasty steeped in voodoo, a heavily meta demon-possessed typewriter, a tale of revenge and spelunking and a massive omnibus of weird fiction from a particularly unique writer. We got ourselves a whole…
The Green Hornet – 1940 serial Blu-ray review
The Green Hornet is a 1940 thirteen-chapter serial from Universal Pictures that was based on a radio series from the 1930’s by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker. Gordon Jones (The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap, The Big Shot) stars as both Britt Reid, publisher of The Sentinel newspaper, and the masked hero known as…