Author: Richard Schmidt

Ghoulies – 4K UHD and Blu-ray Review (MVD Rewind Collection)

At one of them there fancy mansions, somewhere in Hollywood, a warlock named Malcolm Graves (Michael Des Barres) is about to sacrifice his only child for some totally like powerful powers and stuff. Malcolm’s wife, to whom he definitely promised that he wouldn’t sacrifice their baby, interrupts the ceremony and takes her son’s place at…


Night Screams – 4K Ultra HD / Blu-ray Review (Vinegar Syndrome)

After winning the big game, the football team and their cheerleading ladies are ready to party! But all is not well with star quarterback David, who wishes that the future had something more to offer him than playing with balls. Between the pressure of his overbearing father and the pressure in his head from those…


The Girl from Rio – 4K Ultra HD / Blu-ray Review (Blue Underground)

After stealing 10 million dollars in stolen money, Jeff Sutton (Richard Wyler) finds himself on the run in Rio de Janeiro. First, he’s pursued by Sir Masius (George Sanders), a gangster who has as much style and class as he does henchman. And trust me, he has a lot of henchmen. Next, Jeff runs afoul…


Broken Mirrors – Blu-ray Review (Cult Epics)

Thanks to her utterly worthless husband, Diane (Lineke Rijxman) turns to sex work in order to support her child. She befriends Dora (Henriëtte Tol), a gal who’s been in the game a long time, and the two of them slowly develop a bond to protect each other from the johns, the pimps, and their catty…


Villages of the Damned: Three Horrors from Spain – Blu-ray Review (Vinegar Syndrome)

El bosque del lobo (1970) tells the tale of Benito the peddler (played by José Luis López Vázquez), an outwardly good-natured fellow who travels from village to village, selling his wares and acting as a guide to fellow travelers. What no one suspects is that Benito is a madman who, for reasons unknown even to…


Invaluable: The True Story of an Epic Artist – Blu-ray Review (Synapse Films)

Everything changed when artist Tom Sullivan made friends with a young indie film director named Sam Raimi in the late 1970s. Sullivan quickly got swept up into Raimi’s world as the idea to break into the film business with a horror movie became an obsession for a handful of 20 something Michiganites. The Evil Dead…


The Broken Mirror/Unquiet Death – Blu-ray Review (Mondo Macabro)

Anne (Laure Dechasnel) is an art restorer and a barrel of laughs! She’s pregnant with her first child and her husband Matthew (Max von Sydow) and her mom (Micheline Presle) don’t understand why she’s so miserable. They’re concerned about the health of the baby as well as Anne’s mental health. It’s only been a few…


Witchtrap – Blu-ray Review (MVD Rewind)

Plans to turn a haunted house into a bed and breakfast turn deadly when a magician is pushed or is straight up flung out of a third story window to his death by an unseen presence. A ragtag (read as: shitty) group of parapsychologists and a trio of private security dudes show up to exorcise…


The Boogey Man – 4K UHD/Blu-ray Review (Vinegar Syndrome)

After a traumatic childhood incident that ended with the murder of their mom’s abusive boyfriend, Lacey and Willy, played by real life siblings, Suzanna and Nicholas Love, have tried to live out quiet but happy lives together on a farm. Lacey is married, has a young son, and has sweet, supportive in-laws. Willy has been…


The Iron Prefect – Blu-ray Review (Radiance Films)

Picture it: Sicily, 1925. The tough and incorruptible prefect, Cesare Mori (Giuliano Gemma), has had it with the ding dang mafia. The first thing he sees when he rolls up in Sicily is that the people at the bottom are starving because the gangsters at the top are taking their fill and leaving very little…