Yin Zhou (Kris Phillips) takes the throne of the Shang dynasty due to carefully crafted sinister machinations and betrayal and teams up with an evil fox spirit in the guise of the daughter of a former enemy to ensure his control is unchallenged. Meanwhile venerated monk Jian Ziya is given a scroll by the gods…
Cathy’s Curse [Severin] 4K UHD Blu-ray Review
Poor George… After his mom leaves his dad, she takes him with her and leaves his dad and little sister behind, and he later finds out that his dad and sister were killed in a terrible car accident. We then flash forward about 30 years. George is now married to a mentally unwell woman and…
Shinobi [Radiance Films] Blu-ray Box Set Review
In Shinobi: Band of Assassins, Goemon Ishikawa (Ichikawa Raizo) is a promising young pupil who is shown particular favor by shadowy ninja clan master Sandayu (Yunosuke Ito). Sandayu secretly sets up Goemon in a scheme to push him to assassinate the Japanese warlord Ode Nobunaga who is trying to consolidate power amidst the feuding territories….
LOLA [Severin Films] Blu-ray Review
Thomasina (“Thom”) and Martha (“Mars”) are orphaned sisters living in a remote house in the English countryside in 1941. Thom has invented a revolutionary invention nicknamed “Lola” which is able to receive video and audio transmissions from the future. At first, they just use it to listen to rock and roll innovations in the years…
Hot Spur [Severin Films] Blu-ray Review
We open with a group of bored, horny cowboys getting drunk in a bar and then raping a woman while her younger brother Carlo, who works on the same ranch that the cowboys do, watches helplessly. It’s later revealed in flashback that this isn’t even the first time that Carlo has witnessed his sister being…
Misunderstood [Radiance Films] Blu-ray Review
Andrea (Stefano Colagrande) is a boy who just found his mother has died, being told by his remote and stoic father John Duncombe (Anthony Quayle) after his mother’s funeral. Andrea has a younger brother, Milo (Simone Giannozzi), who is not told about his mother, with John wanting to spare Milo the sadness and let him…
The Scavengers [Severin] Blu-Ray Review
The Civil War is over, but Captain Steve Harris (John Bliss of other exploitation films like Chain Gang Women and The Thing with Two Heads) and his band of renegade Confederate soldiers refuse to give up the ghost. Dejected, aimless and looking to raise hell, they invade a small frontier town, bending the locals to…
The Shape of Night [Radiance Films] Blu-ray Review
The film introduces us to a jaded prostitute named Yoshie Nomoto (Miyuki Kuwano who I recognized from Kurosawa’s Red Beard as well as her earlier performances for Nagisa Oshima in Cruel Story of Youth and Night and Fog in Japan) whose latest client takes a shine to her and want to rescue her from the…
Noryang: Deadly Sea [Well Go USA] Blu-ray Review
Noryang: Deadly Sea is the third and final film in the Korean sea battle trilogy, preceded by The Admiral: Roaring Currents and Hansan: Rising Dragon (although Hansan was released after The Admiral, it was actually a prequel). All three films focus on pivotal naval battles during the Japanese Invasions of Korea from 1592 to 1598…
The Great Alligator [Severin] 4K Blu-ray Review
Some bizarrely motivated real estate jackasses decide it’s a great idea to build a swanky resort in the middle of the African jungle. The local jungle god is pretty upset that his precious habitat is being encroached upon and proceeds to take the form of a big ass alligator to eat the shit out every…