Are we feeling fatalistic? Yes? I knew it. Radiance has graced us with a box set of three of director Alain Corneau’s dark film noir crime thrillers. Beneath these broken streets lie corrupt cops, raving maniacs and escaped convicts, all looking to take a little piece of the pie and getting more than they bargained…
Fear in the Philippines: The Complete Blood Island Films [Severin] Blu-Ray Review
The Blood Island series, directed by Gerardo de Leon and Eddie Romero (save the last film which was directed by Romero solo), is a run of four films all supposedly taking place on the same island, Blood Island, so designated conveniently for its brilliant red sunsets. All four films were shot in the Philippines and…
Eating Miss Campbell [Troma] Blu-ray Review
Beth Conner (Lyndsey Craine) is a disaffected outsider goth kid trapped in a nightmare high school where the new principal brought in, Mr. Sawyer (Vito Trigo), is tasked with bringing the out-of-control students in line and comes up with the ludicrous idea of putting on an All You Can Eat Massacre where the winner will…
Mask of Satan [Severin] Blu-ray Review
Davide (Giovanni Guidelli) and his friends (including Mary Sellers, Debora Caprioglio and fellow Italian director Michele Soavi) are skiing in the mountains when they accidentally fall into a crevasse in the snow, finding themselves trapped in some kind of ice cave. Inside this cave, they discover the frozen body of a woman with a strange…
Project Silence [Capelight] Blu-Ray Review
When a dense fog causes a massive car pile-up on a bridge, disrupting the bridge’s structural integrity (a helicopter crash definitely doesn’t help things either), Jeong-won (Lee Sun-Kyun) and his daughter find their plans of heading to the airport to catch a flight completely wrecked to say the least. To make matters worse, amid the…
Performance [Criterion] Blu-ray Review
Chas (James Fox) is a gangster who pushes his luck too far by executing a rival and earns the ire of his boss Harry Flowers (Johnny Shannon) in a real bad way. Forced to go on the run, he hides out in a Notting Hill basement of a burned out, reclusive rock star named Turner…
The Cat [Radiance Films] Blu-Ray Review
A bank heist in Dusselfdorf perpetrated by Junghein (Heinz Hoening) and Britz (Ralf Richter) is underway when things start to go south. They end up surrounded by cops, taking hostages and demanding a ransom of 3 million Deutsch Marks. Leading up the standoff on the cops’ side is a downtrodden schmoe named Voss (Joachim Kemmer)…
Dinner with Leatherface [Anchor Bay] Blu-Ray Review
Who is Gunnar Hansen? He was born on March 4, 1947 in Rekjavik, Iceland and moved to the state of Maine in the United States when he was five years old. At eleven, his parents moved him to Austin, Texas where he later attended the University of Texas at Austin with a double major in…
Last Summer [Janus Contemporaries] Blu-ray Review
Anne (Léa Drucker) is an attorney who works with child services to help minors who are victims of abuse. She lives a seemingly idyllic life with her husband Pierre (Olivier Rabourdin), a somewhat checked-out businessman with a teenage son named Theo (Samuel Kircher) from a previous marriage whose presence begins to disrupt the contented household….
Dark Sanctuary: The Story of the Church [Cleopatra] Blu-Ray Reviews
The year is 1991, and club owner Don Nedler opens The Lizard Lounge at 2424 Swiss Avenue in Dallas, TX. The Lizard Lounge would become one of Dallas’ go-to places for techno/rave culture including being at least partially responsible for breaking huge DJs like Moby and a must-play club for big electronic music figures like…
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