Author: Richard Schmidt

Pandemonium (Vinegar Syndrome) Blu-ray Review

After the big game, a high school cheerleading squad is skewered on a javelin, thus kicking off a rash of brutal cheerleader murders. Years later, cheer wannabe Bambi (Candice Azzara) starts her own cheerleading camp at the very school where the murders took place. So, it’s no surprise when the new squad starts getting knocked…


Aenigma (Severin) Blu-ray Review

A bunch of stuck up jerks at a private school decide to play a cruel prank on Kathy (Milijana Zirojevic), the cleaning lady’s daughter and least popular girl among the student body. They set her up on a date with a hunk and then humiliate her as soon as she lets her guard down. It…


Mikey (MVD) Blu-ray Review

11-year-old Mikey (Brian Bonsall) seems like the most adoptable orphan in the world. He’s smart, he’s cute, and will look good on next year’s family Christmas card. There’s just one little problem with Mikey. If he doesn’t get his way, he will go on a murderous rampage, make it look like an accident, and then…


Fulci for Fake Blu-ray Review

Actor Sandro Bitetto is hired to play Italian horror director Lucio Fulci in a film about his life. The problem is that he doesn’t know jack squat about the “Godfather of Gore”. So, he goes around interviewing Fulci movie experts, his former colleagues in the Italian film industry, and even the man’s daughters to help…


Shining Sex (Severin) Blu-ray Review

An exotic dancer named Cynthia (Lina Romay) hooks up with a swinging couple after a gig at a nightclub (or house), so that they can make the sex act. The couple is Alpha (Evelyne Scott), an interdimensional being disguised as a beautiful woman, and her human slave Andros (Ramón Ardid). Alpha infects Cynthia with that…


Blu-ray Review – American Rickshaw (Cauldron)

College student Scott Edwads (Mitchell Gaylord) is trying to make ends meet by covering his injured best bud Daniel’s (Glenn Maska) shift as a rickshaw driver while his broken leg heals. One rainy day, he helps a kindly Chinese woman named Madame Luna (Michi Kobi) and her Siamese cat get from the bus stop to…


Blu-ray Review – Thirteen Ghosts (Scream Factory)

Millionaire Cyrus Kriticos (F. Murray Abraham) is obsessed with the afterlife. He has alienated his family and friends -though it’s doubtful that he had any friends because he’s such a dickbagel- and has supposedly squandered his fortune hunting and capturing ghosts. He has enlisted the help of psychic medium Dennis Rafkin (Matthew Lillard) to help…


Blu-ray Review – Abrakadabra (Cauldron)

As a child, Lorenzo Manzini (Germán Baudino) witnessed the accidental death of his magician father during a magic trick where he was supposed to catch a bullet. Oh, he caught the bullet all right! Now a grownup magician himself, Lorenzo is preparing his illusions for a big magic show at a swanky theater. Unfortunately, he…


Blu-Ray Review – The Kiss of the Vampire (Scream Factory)

At a funeral in small village, an old man interrupts the vicar and horrifies the gathered mourners by plunging a spade into the coffin. But it is the woman’s scream from inside the grave and the bubbling pool of blood from the broken coffin lid that sends them all running. Meanwhile, after their new-fangled horseless…


Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson (Severin) Blu-ray Review

Every horror and exploitation scavenger has likely had a run-in with the work of Al Adamson at some point. With titles in his filmography like Blood of Dracula’s Castle (1969) and The Naughty Stewardesses (1974), how could any trash movie enthusiast resist? The son of low budget western actor/director Victor Adamson (AKA Denver Dixon), Adamson…