Michael Rivers (Mathis Landwehr) is a retired karate champion who just wants to spend time with his family. One day, he is approached by a mysterious man named Ron Hall (Matthias Hues) who proposes he join an underground “no rules” fighting tournament to determine the greatest martial artist in the world. Rivers turns him down,…
June Zero [Cohen Media Group] Blu-ray Review
For those not aware Adolf Eichmann was a high-ranking member of the Nazi party and the SS that was instrumental in organizing the Holocaust and in particular the concentration camps that Jews were kept in during World War II. In 1960, Eichmann was captured by Israel’s Mossad agency, put on trial and eventually executed in…
Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace [Severin] Blu-ray Review
Review by James Layton Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace is a 1962 black and white film directed by Hammer Films regular, Terence Fisher and starring Christopher Lee in his only appearance as Holmes. Not to brag, but I have read every Sherlock Holmes story and novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, but don’t…
Eighteen Years in Prison [Radiance] Blu-ray Review
Noboru Ando plays Kawada, a former soldier of a suicide squadron in WWII who is now trying to find meaning in his life and forms a gang with his friend Tsukada (Asao Koike) to steal goods from occupying American soldiers in order to setup an organization to take care of the families of fallen Japanese…
Danza Macabra Volume Three [Severin Films] Blu-ray Box Set Review
Severin has unleashed another box set of tasty Spanish gothic morsels to devour! How does each film stack up though? Let’s dig in to find out! In Necrophagous, Michael Sherrington has been away on business but returns to his ancestral home to discover that his wife died during childbirth and his child was stillborn. While…
Scooby-Doo! and the Witch’s Ghost / Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders Blu-ray review
As some fans might be already aware of, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, a Japanese company called Mook produced four Scooby-Doo direct-video movies which were Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island, Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase, Scooby-Doo and the Witch’s Ghost, and Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders, which are based on the classic cartoon series…
Door-to-Door Maniac/Right Hand of the Devil Blu-ray review
Film Masters’ fans can once again celebrate as another pair of low-budget sleazy late-night movies have been paired together for their latest incredible Blu-ray release, Door-to Door Maniac (AKA 5 Minutes to Live) and Right Hand of the Devil. Both are obscure films from the sixties that pack a huge punch! Bill Karn’s Door-to-Door Maniac…
Alienoid: Return to the Future [Well Go USA] Blu-ray Review
If you are just joining us in-media-res as it were for this sequel, the first Alienoid film involved two robotic, intergalactic police named Guard and Thunder whose job is to retrieve alien prisoners who have taken up residency inside humans. They appear in 1380 to stop an alien and end up taking over the raising…
Ghoulies II [MVD Rewind] 4K Blu-ray Review
Ah, those gross little goblins are back. This time we find the ghoulies taking up residence in a haunted house called Satan’s Den run by a couple of yahoos named Uncle Ned and Larry. When these two goobers arrive at the carnival they’re setting up in, they butt heads with the overbearing fairgrounds owner P….
The Lady from Shanghai UHD review
Orson Welles’ The Lady from Shanghai is an American film noir produced, directed by and stars the iconic Welles. The 1947 movie also stars screen legend Rita Hayworth (who he was married to at the time), Everett Sloane and Glenn Anders. The movie is based on the novel If I Die Before I Wake by…