Elvira (Cassandra Peterson) is on her way to France for her big Parisian debut but she and her servant Zou Zou (Mary Jo Smith) are broke and stuck in Transylvania. They’re rescued from wandering the (presumably) haunted hills by Dr. Bradley Bradley (Scott Atkinson), physician for the Hellsubus family. He takes them to the Hellsubus…
Blu-ray Review – The Laughing Dead – Vinegar Syndrome
A bunch of knuckleheads led by Father O’Sullivan (Tim Sullivan) are heading down to Mexico for an archeological fieldtrip. Along the way, the bus stops off to pick up single mom Tessie and her son Ivan (the terrible) who are also along for the ride. This makes things just a bit awkward as she and…
Blu-ray Review – Ticks – Vinegar Syndrome
Jarvis (Clint Howard) is growing a very special marijuana crop using an experimental steroid he’s concocted. Unfortunately, the machine he uses to produce this particularly volatile chemical is all kinds of leaky and it drips on some tick eggs in his cellar. Now the surrounding forest is chock full of super ticks just in time…
Blu-ray Review – Nothing Underneath/Too Beautiful to Die – Vinegar Syndrome
Nothing Underneath (1985) is the story of Bob Boyle, a boy whose parents just moved to New England- woops, wrong Bob! This film is about Bob Crane (Tom Schanley), a Yellowstone (or Giallostone if you will) National Park ranger, who travels to Milan to find out what happened to his twin sister after he psychically…
Blu-ray Review – The Chinese Boxer – 88 Films
After being expelled from his kung-fu school for being a total suckass, Diao (Hsiung Chao) returns from Japan having trained in Judo for several years. His goal is to destroy the school and start his own (with a gambling house next door as a side hustle). Luckily, the master of the school beats Diao’s ass…
Blu-ray Review – What Really Happened to Baby Jane? – AGFA/Vinegar Syndrome
The Gay Girls Riding Club was a group of likeminded individuals that produced several films that were a huge hit in the underground gay and drag clubs of the 1960s. Their founder and director of said films, Ray Harrison AKA Connie B. De Mille, perfectly captures a snapshot of the vivacious and gloriously irreverent LA-based…
Blu-ray Review – A Day of Judgement – Severin Films
Sometime in the 1920s, the inhabitants of a small town are struggling financially and morally in their (comically miserable) daily lives. The local bringer of bummer, Reverend Cage (Charles Reynolds and not Nicholas Cage), is tired of watching his congregation dwindle and is set to retire. Luckily for him, the Angel of Death has rolled…
Blu-ray Review – Resurrection – Vinegar Syndrome
Detective John Prudhomme (Christopher Lambert), who is both Chicagoan and Cajun, is still mourning the death of his son who died in a terrible accident when he gets put on the case of some vicious serial murders. The killer is a religious fanatic cutting the limbs from his victims one at a time in order…
Blu-ray Review – Tough Guys Don’t Dance – Vinegar Syndrome
Failed writer/successful alcoholic Tim Madden (Ryan O’Neal) wakes up with a wicked hangover and discovers his father (Lawrence Tierney) sitting in his kitchen. Tim tells his dad all about the total insanity of the last couple of weeks, including but not limited to a multi-million-dollar cocaine deal, murder, infidelity, a severed head, and a big…
Blu-ray Review – Death Screams – Arrow Video
The tranquility of a quiet town (located somewhere in the North Carolinian zone) is shattered when a crazed killer goes on a rampage, slaughtering the teen population. Woops, I kind of wrote myself into a corner with that one sentence plot summary. Damn it! There’s also a lengthy carnival sequence and adult-aged teenagers telling stories…
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