Dancing onto the scene recently is the cheerful idol series Shine Post to blu-ray courtesy of the folks at Sentai Filmworks. Give your heart to these idols and let’s move forward into a bright future! Haru, Kyoka and Rio are members of the J-idol group TiNgS, and the president of the talent agency they work…
UHD/BD Review – Night of the Demons 1/2 (Scream Factory)
This review was originally published in 2014 as part of a review of both Night of the Demons and Witchboard and some of the context reflects that. Night of the Demons Kevin S. Tenney owned aspects of my horror-worshipping childhood, and I didn’t even know it. I have always considered myself a pop-culture archaeologist, a…
Invaluable: The True Story of an Epic Artist – Blu-ray Review (Synapse Films)
Everything changed when artist Tom Sullivan made friends with a young indie film director named Sam Raimi in the late 1970s. Sullivan quickly got swept up into Raimi’s world as the idea to break into the film business with a horror movie became an obsession for a handful of 20 something Michiganites. The Evil Dead…
The Broken Mirror/Unquiet Death – Blu-ray Review (Mondo Macabro)
Anne (Laure Dechasnel) is an art restorer and a barrel of laughs! She’s pregnant with her first child and her husband Matthew (Max von Sydow) and her mom (Micheline Presle) don’t understand why she’s so miserable. They’re concerned about the health of the baby as well as Anne’s mental health. It’s only been a few…
Witchtrap – Blu-ray Review (MVD Rewind)
Plans to turn a haunted house into a bed and breakfast turn deadly when a magician is pushed or is straight up flung out of a third story window to his death by an unseen presence. A ragtag (read as: shitty) group of parapsychologists and a trio of private security dudes show up to exorcise…
Jack Armstrong Blu-ray review
Adapted from the Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy radio series, Wallace Fox’s 1947 serial from Columbia Pictures, entitled Jack Armstrong appears in an epic 15-chapter serial where he must prevent a group of evil thugs from taking over the world! Gang leader Jason Grood (uncredited Charles Middleton from the Flash Gordon serials) and his…
The Boogey Man – 4K UHD/Blu-ray Review (Vinegar Syndrome)
After a traumatic childhood incident that ended with the murder of their mom’s abusive boyfriend, Lacey and Willy, played by real life siblings, Suzanna and Nicholas Love, have tried to live out quiet but happy lives together on a farm. Lacey is married, has a young son, and has sweet, supportive in-laws. Willy has been…
Yakuza Graveyard Blu-ray Review [Radiance]
Springing forth this summer from Radiance is the underseen gangster flick Yakuza Graveyard from acclaimed Japanese director Kinji Fukasaku beautifully restored on blu-ray for the first time. Tetsuya Watari plays a rage-filled cop named Kuroiwa who isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty in pursuit of his goals. Kuroiwa, sickened by his department’s unofficial and…
AmnesiA Blu-ray Review [Cult Epics]
Arriving on blu-ray from Cult Epics is the stylized mind-bending Dutch thriller AmnesiA which netted dual lead actor Fedja van Huêt the Golden Calf Award for best actor. Hop in the car and let’s go face your demons! Van Huêt plays a photographer named Alex who returns to his family’s home after he finds out…