Hard-boiled detective fiction writer Richard Foster (John Haslett Cuff) and his wife (Rose Graham) are having a dinner party with some friends to celebrate their wedding anniversary. Unfortunately for them, their housekeeper is Victoria Tusk (Agi Gallus), a madwoman with an even crazier sister named Sarah (Darlene Mignacco), who just escaped from a psychiatric ward…
The Witches Mountain – Blu-ray Review (Mondo Macabro)
A photographer named Mario (Cihangir Gaffari) goes on assignment to snap some sikk pics of a mountainous region of Spain known for its beauty. He takes along his very casual acquaintance, Delia (Patty Shepard), after creepily photographing her topless on the beach. Why she agrees to go with him is confusing to say the least….
McBain – Blu-ray Review (Synapse Films)
At the end of the Vietnam War, a bunch of soldiers risk their lives to free a group of POWs trapped behind enemy lines. They rescue Robert McBain (Christopher Walken) and his buds just in the nick of time. Santos (Chick Vennera), the leader of the rescuers, makes McBain promise to come to his aid…
Kill Zone – Blu-Ray Review (MVD Rewind Collection)
Jason (Fritz Matthews) and Mitchell (Ted Prior) are having one crazy summer. They and a bunch of other unlucky soldiers signed up for Colonel Crawford’s Vietnam POW Zany Escape Room Adventure. Crawford (David Campbell) and his goons have set up the most realistic POW experience that Southern California can provide. Of course, they take things…
Swamp Thing – 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Review (MVD Visual)
Government stooge Alice Cable (Adrienne Barbeau) is sent out to the swamps of North Carolina to look in on the research of Dr. Alec Holland (Ray Wise) to see how his crazy formula is going. Holland is supposed to be making something that glows green like the reanimation agent that Dr. Herbert West developed a…
Danza Macabra Vol. One: The Italian Gothic Collection – Blu-ray Review (Severin Films)
If you’re anything like me -and for your sake, I hope you’re not- then you’re a fan of Italian gothic horror, a devotee of the candelabra, a Babs Steele stan, a see-through gown in a moonlit graveyard enthusiast, etc. The Italian gothics can be enjoyed on a dark and stormy night or a lazy Sunday…
House of Terrors – Blu-ray Review (Mondo Macabro)
Yoshie (Yûko Kusunoki) receives news that her husband has died under mysterious circumstances. Then she finds out that he had a mistress AND even had a creepy old villa out in the middle of nowhere that she’s inherited. You take the good. You take the bad. You take them both and then you have… the…
Wings of Disaster: The Birdemic Trilogy – Blu-ray Review (Severin Films/Intervision)
Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010) is more than just the title of a film, it’s also a film. In this film, on a place resembling Earth, in a little burg called Half Moon Bay, software engineer/salesman Rod (Alan Bagh) manages to make the biggest sale of his career and lands a date with supermodel Nathalie…
Mexican Gothic: The Films of Carlos Enrique Taboada – Blu-ray Review (Vinegar Syndrome)
I am so happy to see that more and more Mexican horror cinema is hitting the format known as Bluish Laser Beam Diskette AKA Blu-ray. When I can look at my shelves and see titles like Rubén Galindo Jr.’s Cemetery of Terror (1985) and Don’t Panic (1987) sitting there, it fills my heart with a…
Bio-Zombie – Blu-ray Review (Vinegar Syndrome)
Woody Invincible (Jordan Chan) and Crazy Bee (Sam Lee) are two losers who would give Beavis and Butthead a run for their money. They run a bootleg DVD shop in a mall and spend their days scamming, robbing, mooching, bullying, and harassing both customers and their fellow mall workers alike. They’re terrible dudes, but when…