The late great horror journalist Chas Balun wrote a small booklet in honor of Lucio Fulci shortly after the maestro’s death in 1996. It was titled Beyond the Gates, and is well worth checking out if you are a Fulci fanatic, as I am. It is fairly short, and not very in depth, but it…
UHD Review – House by the Cemetery (Blue Underground)
House by the Cemetery is an insanely important film for me. I still remember buying Zombie from a Suncoast Video (remember those)? I would use websites like House of Horrors, and magazines like Fangoria to get any information I could on Italian horror, but sometimes it was just the mere act of stumbling on to…
Blu-ray Review – The Lady Kills/Pervertissima (Mondo Macabro)
Back in the days of DVD when I first started collecting Mondo Macabro discs they helped introduce me to some wild and worldly cinema. One of the first 10 or so discs I bought based on title alone was The Sadist with Red Teeth, by director Jean-Louis van Belle. It has been a decade if…
UHD Review – The Goonies – Warner Brothers
As a kid my first passion was my NES. I would always ask for new games for Christmas and birthdays, and rent them when I could. One game I became obsessed with even though as a kid I could never figure it out was “The Goonies II”. I found out through a friend it was…
UHD Review – Beetlejuice – Warner Brothers
Beetlejuice in spite of its popularity is not a film I got around to watching as a kid. I saw it in bits and pieces on TV , but never the whole film until last year, and even then I was unimpressed. I did watch the cartoon quite a bit, but now familiar with the…
Blu-ray Review – Weathering With You (Shout! Factory/G Kids)
When I saw Your Name about 4 years ago it introduced me to the cinema of Makoto Shinkai. The experience blew my mind at the time, and I had gone back to see some of his earlier work to continue the cinematic journey that I had begun with Your Name, and found myself enjoying each…
Blu-ray Review – Tales from the Darkside – The Movie (Scream Factory)
I can still recall as a kid in the 80’s older kids in my neighborhood talking about the show Tales from the Darkside as if it was scariest thing ever. Considering that we only had one small video store in the neighborhood with a limited and inaccessible horror selection to us (run by my soccer…
Blu-ray Review – Gemini (Mondo Macabro)
I know that the almost legendary Asian film distro Third Window Films has released many of Shinya Tsukamoto’s films to Blu-ray format previously. However, in the last 3 months with the insanely near comprehensive box set by Arrow Video Tsukamoto box set, and now the outstanding Gemini release by the iconic Mondo Macabro it truly…
Blu-ray Review – Why The Hell Are You Here, Teacher?
Some of my favorite director’s (non-anime) are cats like Jess Franco, Walerian Borowczyk, Jean Rollin, so admittedly I like sleazy stuff. I don’t mean like directly hardcore porn stuff, because that’s almost too easy, like shooting fish in a barrel, but stuff that just carries a cool sleazy vibe to it. So when I saw…
Blu-ray Review – Run With the Wind – Complete Collection (Sentai Filmworks)
I am not athletic by nature, and to double down a bit I really really hate sports. Watching them, playing them, the whole she-bang. Running has always been a task for me, I remember in middle school and high school in gym classes we’d have to run “the mile”, and my friends and I would…