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…
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…
Dick Tracy RKO Pictures Collection Blu-ray review
Chester Gould, creator of the Dick Tracy character and comic strip, saw his gritty cop star in several classic Dick Tracy serials and feature films. They are action-packed, hard-hitting thrill rides that I have enjoyed for many years. After the four Dick Tracy serials, the detective would move to RKO Radio Pictures and star in…
The Crippled Masters Blu-ray review
Joe Law’s The Crippled Masters is the tale of two men that have been stripped of their arms and legs. Together, they learn to survive with their handicap and work together to gain revenge on the man who has caused them so much pain. The film stars two legitimately disabled martial artists. Frankie Shum is…
Common Law Wife and Jennie Wife/Child Blu-rat review
Exploitation film fans will get a kick out this Blu-ray release from Film Masters. Entitled the “Backwoods Double-Feature”, this has a pair of “hicksploitation” (an exploitation film from the South) films in Common Law Wife and Jennie Wife/Child, which have been restored in 4K! Common Law Wife has a wealthy old coot named Shugfoot Rainey…
Tormented Blu-ray review (Film Masters)
The line “Tom Stewart killed me” to me is the most memorable piece of dialogue spoken in Bert I. Gordon’s Tormented, a 1960 ghost horror mystery film from Allied Artists Picture Corporation where a man murders the woman in which has had an affair with. With this picture, Bert I. Gordon goes from making movies…
The Swiss Conspiracy Blu-ray review
Director Jack Arnold, the man behind The Creature from the Black Lagoon, This Island Earth and other wonderous, great low-budget science fiction and horror movies from the 1950s, ends his directorial career with 1976 crime action thriller, The Swiss Conspiracy, which is a co-production between the United States and West Germany. The story is about…
Devil’s Partner / Creature from the Haunted Sea Blu-ray review
The Film Masters label continues the B-movie double-feature craze with a new Blu-ray release featuring another pair of obscure films in Devil’s Partner (the film title has no “the” next to Devil’s) and Creature from the Haunted Sea. Back in the day, Roger and Gene Corman’s company, Filmgroup, purchased Devil’s Partner be part of a…
The Terror / The Little Shop of Horrors (Film Masters) Blu-ray review
Film Masters has released another Roger Corman classic double-feature on Blu-ray! This time around it’s The Terror and The Little Shop of Horrors. Both films feature the iconic actor Jack Nicholson along with Corman regulars Dick Miller and Jonathan Haze. Taking place in 1906, The Terror has André Duvalier (Jack Nicholson, Batman, The Shining, Chinatown),…
Stella Maris (1918 film) Blu-ray review
VCI Entertainment has once again dug into the Mary Pickford vaults, releasing another great silent starring the legendary actress. Stella Maris is a 1918 classic silent drama where she plays two completely different characters, and both happen to fall in love with a married man! The film is based on William John Locke’s 1913 novel…