It is interesting watching Mad Max with people who are not totally familiar with the film these days. The last few times I’ve watched the original film, it has been in the presence with someone who knew the series from the more popular sequels in the latter case this was my own fault, as the…
Major Dundee (Twilight Time) Blu-ray Review
As American is engaged in the Civil War, disgraced Union Calvary officer Major Amos Charles Dundee (Charlton Heston) – currently spending a once illustrious career in the military overseeing a prison stockade in New Mexico – is assembling an army to go into Mexico and capture or kill Sierra Charriba (Michael Pate), the vicious Apache…
Machine Gun McCain (Blue Underground) Blu-ray review
John Cassavetes was the man! Whether Cassavetes is behind the camera (as director), or in front acting usually the end result is fantastic. He is one of those actors that can be put into a bad movie, and elevate it to a higher standard, as long as he in on screen. I don’t mean this…
Macbeth (Olive) Blu-ray Review
Keanrick: We were exorcising evil spirits. Being but a mere butler, you will not know the great theatre tradition that one does *never* speak the name of the “Scottish Play”. Blackadder: What, *Macbeth*? Mossop, Keanrick: Aahhhhh. Hot potato, orchestra stalls, Puck will make amends. Macbeth is probably my very favorite of Shakespeare’s plays from the…
Madman (Vinegar Syndrome) Blu-ray Review
At the conclusion of camping season for gifted children at North Sea Cottages, everyone is gathered around the campfire singing songs and telling stories. Head counselor Max tells the story of a beast of a man farmer that went crazy and killed his family. It took ten men to capture him and hang him but…
Manos: The Hands of Fate (Synapse) Blu-ray Review
If you’ve read my reviews on EuroCultAV.com you might know I don’t really get into declaring extremes. Therefore you will rarely see at least myself declare a best of, worst of, or anything of that nature. Manos: The Hands of Fate was a film made by Harold P. Warren an El Paso fertilizer salesman in…
Anticipation & Flesh Pond (Vinegar Syndrome) DVD Review
“Flesh Pond” (0.5/5) Two men escape from jail and push their way into an isolated swingers club. They’re just in time before the participants start ravaging each other and instead of allowing the swingers to choose their partners, the escapees order the swinging patrons around, forcing their sexual hobbies on each other at gunpoint. While…
Arena (Sony) DVD Review
Denver firefighter David Lord (Kellan Lutz) has the ideal life: a good job, his beautiful wife Lori (Nina Dobrev), and best of all he’s about to become a father. But one sunny afternoon a devastating car accident takes all that away. Racked with grief David flees to Acapulco to drown his sorrows in booze. Enticed…
Pale Blood (Vinegar Syndrome) Blu-ray Review
A Vampire travels to LA to look in on a series of bizarre murders. All the victims seem to be drained of blood and killed by a vampire. Fearing the bad name this would give vampires, he tries to stop the killer with the aid of a vampire obsessed PI. Pale Blood (1990) Is a…
The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) (Warner Archives) Blu-ray Review
Famous sculptor Ivan Igor (Lionel Atwill), has taken up wax as his new profession. He is running a wax museum in London, but it seems to be doing poorly, with the main complaint being it’s not ghoulish enough. But one night in 1921 he is visited by an influential critic who wants to showcase his…