Knowing that their families won’t approve of their relationship, Otsuya (Ayako Wakao) and her lover Shinsuke (Akio Hasegawa) elope one wintry night. While waiting for a blessing -and some cash- from her father, Otsuya is kidnapped and sold to a geisha house and her beau is nearly murdered by a goon hired by the man…
Blu-ray Review – All-American Murder – Vinegar Syndrome
After his college roommates set his pet snake on fire, known rebel and all-around badboy -Artie Logan (Charlie Schlatter) is accused of arson and ends up in jail. After bailing him out, his a-hole dad pulls some strings and somehow gets Artie enrolled in a prestigious college. He’s on campus exactly 5 minutes before getting…
Blu-ray Review – Love After Death and The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful – AGFA and Something Weird
After Mr. Montel is “accidentally” buried alive by his wife, he digs his way out of his own grave and goes on some sexy adventures. In life, Montel was sickly, too cowardly, and quite possibly just plain impotent to fulfill his wife’s desires. Now that he’s out and about in the city, he spies on…
Blu-ray Review – The Fear – Vinegar Syndrome
Richard (Eddie Bowz) is finishing up his degree in psychology and his final thesis is about fear. But instead of writing some stuffy old paper, he’s gonna stage a fear experiment with his friends and some strangers as guinea pigs at a remote cabin. This would be a terrible idea under the best circumstances, but…
Blu-ray Review – Rush Week – Vinegar Syndrome
Jeff (Dean Hamilton) is the hunky but moody head of BDB, a fraternity’s whose chief goal seems to be to traumatize as many people -including the audience of this film- as possible, and he’s set his sights on Toni (Pamela Ludwig), the new reporter for the school paper. At first, Toni ain’t too sure about…
Blu-ray Review – Last Gasp – Vinegar Syndrome
While trying to build a luxurious resort in the jungles of Mexico, Leslie Chase (Robert Patrick) is forced to halt construction because a nearby indigenous tribe is sacrificing his workers. He calls in some local muscle to wipe the tribe out but one of them gets away and comes after him. After killing his attacker,…
The Brides of Dracula (Shout! Factory) Blu-ray Review
While traveling to her job at a fancy girls’ school, student teacher Marianne (Yvonne Monlaur) gets waylaid at a local inn after her coach driver leaves her stranded. She is “rescued” by Baroness Meinster (Martita Hunt), who takes her to her mansion for the night, claiming that she’s a lonely old woman, desperate for company…
The Beast Must Die (Severin) Blu-ray Review
A millionaire/lunatic hunter named Tom Newcliffe (Calvin Lockhart) has pretty much blown entire his fortune installing a state-of-the-art security system on his massive estate. He didn’t do this because he fears intruders, no no, he wants intruders, but especially ones of the lycanthrope variety. One could blame this on harmless eccentricity except Newcliffe has invited…
Demonia (Severin) Blu-ray Review
Brett Halsey plays Professor Paul Evans, an archeologist leading an excavation in Sicily. Liza Harris (Meg Register), one of his colleagues on the dig, becomes obsessed with the chambers underneath a church on the mountain overlooking the village where the team is working. It was site of a massacre committed by the local townspeople of…
The Caller (Vinegar Syndrome) Blu-ray Review
While she’s preparing for a dinner date, a woman (Madolyn Smith Osborne) staying in a secluded cabin gets an unexpected visit from a man (Malcolm McDowell) claiming to be a stranded motorist. Their conversation turns from small talk to interrogations as both of these people appear to be hiding something. Is the man a traveling…