The setting is France in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars in the mid 1800s. Marcello Mastrioanni is Fulvio Imbriani, a man of noble birth who refuses to give up the location of a secret revolutionary group called the Sublime Brothers. The Grand Duke decides to free Fulvio at the advice of his consigliere. At…
The Bounty Hunter Trilogy [Radiance] Blu-Ray Review
The first film in the Bounty Hunter Trilogy, Killer’s Mission, introduces us to the titular bounty hunter (but also doctor?), Shikoro Ichibei (played by the great Wakayama Tomisaburo who would go on to star in the awesome Lone Wolf & Cub films), who is given an assignment by the shogun to go investigate a Dutch…
The Dead Mother [Radiance] Blu-ray Review
A thief named Ismael breaks into an art gallery with the intent of executing a simple burglary. Before we the audience fully register what has happened, the thief has callously murdered a woman while her daughter watches. The girl walks up to her mother, unable to comprehend what has happened. She sees Ismael and he…
Lycan Colony Blu-ray Review [Visual Vengeance]
An alcoholic surgeon that everyone calls Dr. Dan screws up big time on the job and finds himself ostracized from his peers and forced to uproot his family and move to a small town in New Hampshire. If only tourists during the fall season were the worst things they have to worry about! As you…
Le Combat Dans L’Ile Blu-ray Review [Radiance Films]
Clément (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is living a double life. Unbeknownst to his former actress wife Anne (an always ethereal Romy Schneider) in a marriage ranging from shaky to actively hostile, he is secretly a right-wing terrorist. Clément is forced to flee the city with Anne after a botched assassination attempt. He heads to the countryside and…
The Wrong Door Blu-Ray [Visual Vengeance]
Ted Farrell’s night takes a turn for the worse when he peers into his rearview mirror and discovers the dead body of a girl he had met earlier. Ted’s love of mysteries and thrillers is palpable, particularly when he is immersed in his job of sound design on films. But getting pulled into his own…
Ben Reads the Horror Classics: Werewolves, Ghosts and Vampires… Oh My!
As the year winds its way down and night encroaches upon our empty lives earlier and earlier, horror encases the soul like a salve to soothe the jagged edges of the frizzled psyche during these dark months. Naturally I have arrived to bring you more write-ups from this big ass horror list project I’ve been…
Ben Reads the Horror Classics: Super-Sized Edition
Greetings, folks! Been quite a while since I’ve posted one of these, although rest assured I have not abandoned the project by any means. I’ve just been super busy with other stuff and haven’t had a chance to post until now. In this Super-Sized Edition, I’ll be delivering up ten write-ups instead of the usual…
The Abomination Blu-ray Review [Visual Vengeance]
From director Bret McCormick (Repligator, Ozone: Attack of the Redneck Mutants) comes this delirious lo-fi special effects-on-the-cheap romp. A grown ass man named Cody lives with his religious nut mother who is obsessed with a specific televangelist. When his mom vomits up a carnivorous, sentient tumor, Cody is dismayed to find that the tumor has…
What the Waters Left Behind: Scars Blu-ray Review [Cleopatra]
In this sequel to the original 2017 film What the Waters Left Behind, this time directed solo by Nicolás Onetti sans his brother Luciano (who still hangs around to handle the music), we return to the ghost town of Epecuén, a town that had been submerged for 25 years under water. Once the waters receded,…