Author: Richard Schmidt

The Devonsville Terror – Blu-ray Review (Vinegar Syndrome)

Picture it: Devonsville, 1683. Some puritanical dickbagels burn three women at the stake. Why oh why did they do this? They think that these totally innocent people are witches! Here comes your fact-filled history lesson, so buckle up, kiddos. Puritans were somewhat anti-witch back in the day. That’s it. Three hundred years later, the same…


Quiet Days in Clichy – 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Review (Blue Underground)

Joey and Carl are two down and out reprobates- oops, I mean writers in Paris. These two walking hard-ons get into all sorts of ridiculous and impossible shenanigans involving sex, food, and money. Sometimes, all three at the same time. There are lots of beautiful women that come and go, and they are all treated…


The Black Crystal – Blu-ray Review (AGFA/Vinegar Syndrome)

Will (Mike Conway) is cruising out west in his sick Trans Am to go see his brother, who lives in a small town up in the mountains, when he foolishly picks up a sketchy hitchhiker named Justin. They are on the road for about 2 minutes before they are forced off the road by some…


A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse – Blu-ray Review (Mondo Macabro)

Yukino (Naomi Tani) is stuck working in a bathhouse (AKA brothel) because of her utterly worthless and downright evil husband Toriyama (Kôji Fujiyama). Things only get worse when her younger sister Mayumi (Misa Ohara) shows up to live with the couple and even worser than that, Yukino reveals to her dirtbag hubbie that she is…


The Invisible Maniac – 4K/Blu-ray Review (Vinegar Syndrome)

Little Kevin Dornwinkle is caught peeping on a sexy neighbor by his mother and her over reaction to this incident instantly creates a future serial killer. Twenty years later, Kevin has grown up into physicist Dr. Dornwinkle (Noel Peters) whose theories on “molecular reorganization” have given him the reputation of being a bit of a…


Blu-ray Review – The Birds II: Land’s End – Vinegar Syndrome

Those mean old birds from Alfred Hitchcock’s famous movie about killer birds called Rope (1948) are back and boy howdy, they are mad. They’re frickin’ sick of humankind’s bullcrap what with our all of our polluting the Earth and blaring our loud music. I can’t confirm this but my cursory research indicates that birds especially…


Blu-ray Review – Massacre at Central High – Synapse Films

All is not well at Central High. The bullies run the school and every single kid there is too scared to do anything about it. Mark (Andrew Stevens) is one of the bullies and he foolishly thinks that his old friend David (Derrel Maury) should come to the school and join the gang. David is…


Blu-ray Review – The Munsters (2022) – Universal Pictures

Poor Lily (Sheri Moon Zombie). She’s just an undead gal looking for the right reanimated corpse to spend her afterlife with, and the dates that her vampire grandpa (Daniel Roebuck) sets her up on are the wrong kind of monstrous. Then she spots the gorgeous hunk Herman Munster (Jeff Daniel Phillips) fresh off the mad…


Blu-ray Review – Fire in the Sky – Scream Factory

A group of loggers are accused of murder, or at the very least foul play, when they return from a woodcutting job without their friend and coworker, Travis Walton (D.B. Sweeney). What’s their story? Oh, you know, they say that Travis got whisked away by a flying saucer! Mike Rogers (Robert Patrick), the leader of…


Blu-ray Review – Voyage of the Rock Aliens – Vinegar Syndrome

While flying through the cosmos in their guitar-shaped spaceship, a group of aliens decide to land on the planet Earth and observe the humans that live there. Now according to IMDB, they’re trying to find the “source of rock & roll”, but honestly, I have no idea what their goal is. Whatever, it’s fine. The…