Picture it: Sicily, 1925. The tough and incorruptible prefect, Cesare Mori (Giuliano Gemma), has had it with the ding dang mafia. The first thing he sees when he rolls up in Sicily is that the people at the bottom are starving because the gangsters at the top are taking their fill and leaving very little…
Ravishing Dany/The Girl Can’t Stop! Blu-ray Review [Mondo Macabro]
Released recently from perennial boutique favorite Mondo Macabro comes a crazy sex comedy and bleak crime drama in a perverse and fun double feature. Drop your pants, stick out your thumb and get ready to hitchhike into some action! Dany (Sandra Julien of Jean Rollins’ Shiver of the Vampire) is a freelance fashion model hitchhiking…
Red Sun Blu-ray Review [Radiance]
Hitting blu-ray from the exciting new Radiance boutique blu-ray label comes a forgotten crime film from the time of the German New Wave. Let’s sit around the apartment, murder somebody and just chill out and enjoy, huh? Thomas is a drifter aimlessly wandering through Germany when he runs into an ex-girlfriend of his who agrees…
The Executioner and Her Way of Life: Complete Collection Blu-ray Review [Sentai Filmworks]
Yet another isekai (or is it?) springs onto blu-ray from Sentai Filmworks! Follow the adventures of Mutou Mitsuki as he suddenly appears in another world different from his typical Japanese high school life and is escorted around this new world by a helpful priestess named Menou who explains that he is one of many of…
Psycho Girls – Blu-ray Review (Vinegar Syndrome)
Hard-boiled detective fiction writer Richard Foster (John Haslett Cuff) and his wife (Rose Graham) are having a dinner party with some friends to celebrate their wedding anniversary. Unfortunately for them, their housekeeper is Victoria Tusk (Agi Gallus), a madwoman with an even crazier sister named Sarah (Darlene Mignacco), who just escaped from a psychiatric ward…
Sick of Myself Blu-ray Review [Vinegar Syndrome]
Arriving recently from Vinegar Syndrome Pictures (VS’s sub-label that finances and distributes newer films like Censor and The Scary of Sixty-First) comes this twisted Norwegian dark comedy from the director of the under-seen weirdo cult film Drib. Pop a bunch of Lidexol and revel in the adulation because it’s time to dig in! Signe is…
Onipan! Complete Collection Blu-ray Review [Sentai Filmworks]
Arriving on blu-ray with bells on is the wacky demon comedy Onipan! from Sentai Filmworks. Grab your shorts, slip ’em on and get ready for some silly shenanigans of Oni proportions! Himawari, Tsutsuji and Tsuyukusa are young oni who are sent to Earth as goodwill ambassadors for oni-kind. They are tasked with doing good deeds…
The Witches Mountain – Blu-ray Review (Mondo Macabro)
A photographer named Mario (Cihangir Gaffari) goes on assignment to snap some sikk pics of a mountainous region of Spain known for its beauty. He takes along his very casual acquaintance, Delia (Patty Shepard), after creepily photographing her topless on the beach. Why she agrees to go with him is confusing to say the least….
The Fear a.k.a. O Fovos Blu-ray Review
Mondo Macabro delivers another underseen classic with the Greek film The Fear on blu-ray for the first time anywhere. Feel the simmering tensions well up and explode in this provocative psychological thriller! Anna is a city-dwelling student who returns to her family’s farm at a time where her father Dimitrios is struggling, working himself to…
McBain – Blu-ray Review (Synapse Films)
At the end of the Vietnam War, a bunch of soldiers risk their lives to free a group of POWs trapped behind enemy lines. They rescue Robert McBain (Christopher Walken) and his buds just in the nick of time. Santos (Chick Vennera), the leader of the rescuers, makes McBain promise to come to his aid…