Taking place several years after the previous Roundup film, Don Lee returns once again as Detective Ma Seok-do, this time investigating a murder which leads to getting mixed up with the Japanese Yakuza and an illegal drug-trafficking operation. Detective Ma goes about it in his usual manner, not afraid to beat the ever loving shit…
Monolith [Well Go USA] Blu-ray Review
Lily Sullivan (Evil Dead Rise) stars as a disgraced journalist who has holed up in her strikingly lovely house to record a podcast that seeks to unravel a mystery around a series of strange, seemingly otherworldly black bricks that people from all over the world have acquired through bizarre circumstances. The closer to the truth…
Goodbye & Amen [Radiance Films] Blu-ray Review
Tony Musante is CIA operative John Dannahay and has been tasked with working to overthrow an African government while also trying to track down a mole on his team. John Steiner is the double-crossing Agent Grayson who has been working against him. Before Dannahay can confront him, Grayson seeimingly flips out and snipes some folks…
Night of the Blood Monster a.k.a. The Bloody Judge [Blue Underground] 4K Blu-ray Review
Christopher Lee stars as the cold and merciless Judge Jeffreys, based on a real person (although our old pal Jess Franco takes massive liberties with the historical source material). Jeffreys is a ruthless witchfinder in the 17th century (in reality though he was more concerned with traitors to the crown) who while in his day-to-day…
Black Tight Killers [Radiance Films] Blu-ray Review
We open on some awesome jazzy music over the production logo which leads into the introduction of our main man, Daisuke Honda, war photographer, in the midst of the most fireworks-filled battle sequence I’ve come across in a film. Then we get a totally groovy go-go dancing opening credits sequence after which we jump forward…
Bloodmoon (Severin) Blu-ray Review
This late period Ozsploitation slasher arrives on blu-ray courtesy of Severin in a spiffy new edition. The all-girls school Saint Elizabeth’s has a history of hooking up with both locals and horny, young gents from the nearby all-boys Winchester School. Amidst a rivalry between the Winchester boys and the local guys, students from both schools…
The Sting of Death [Radiance] Blu-Ray Review
The setting is post-war Japan. We follow Miho and Toshio, a husband and wife, and their children as they struggle with the vagaries of their marriage. Miho becomes jealous of an infidelity on the part of her husband which sends her spiraling into fits of madness and paranoia. Is it too late to salvage what…
The Black Mass [MVD Visual] Blu-Ray Review
Florida, Winter, 1978. An unsettling man prowls the streets, spying on women, making lewd passes at them. He becomes fixated on a group of sorority girls and starts spying on them through their windows. Who will survive the night? This really happened. And much more. This is the story of one of the most legendary,…
Allonsanfàn [Radiance] Blu-Ray Review
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…