David Linderby (Michael Caine) and his wife Anansa (Beverly Johnson) are both doctors who work for the United Nations. Their latest assignment takes them to an African village to inoculate the villagers. While David is engaged with photographing a tribal dance Anansa decides to go skinny dipping in a nearby river. After she emerges from…
The Amityville Trilogy (Scream Factory) Blu-ray review
The Amityville series has been one of horror cinema’s most persistent and questionably enduring franchises. It all began with the 1977 novel by Jay Anson that was supposedly based on a true story, though it has long been debunked. Nevertheless, the original Amityville Horror has spawned sequels, unofficial spin-offs, pale imitations, countless parodies, and the…
Army of Darkness (Scream Factory) Blu-ray review
Ashley J. Williams aka Ash (Bruce Williams) is a department store house wares clerk at S-Mart. He went on a vacation with his girlfriend/group of friends to a cabin in the woods, where an archaeologist had been translating an ancient occult text the “Necronomicon”. After Ash reads aloud from the book demonic deadites begin possessing…
Amour (Sony) Blu-ray Review
Michael Haneke’s Amour is a devastating and beautiful film from the Austrian auteur who brought us such amazing films as Benny’s Video, Cache, The Piano Teacher, and possibly most popularly Funny Games. This, is, of course, to be expected from Haneke’s films which are usually on some level equal parts disturbing, beautifully shot, and emotionally…
Hellriders (Vingear Syndrome) Blu-ray review
A young woman (Tina Louise) from Vegas is on a road trip when her car breaks down. She is soon menaced by a group of bikers known as The Hell Riders, whose only goal in life to cause chaos. She manages to escape to a small nearby town, but once there she discovers that the…
Deadline (Vinegar Syndrome) Blu-ray Review
Popular horror novelist Steven Lessey (Stephen Young) seems to have it all. A picture-perfect family, a successive series of novels, and now a row of popular horror movie adaptations that he co-wrote. But now the pressure is getting too tight as he finds himself with writer’s block. Daydreaming to find the right idea that will…
The Amazing Spider-Man (Sony) Blu-ray Review
Did Spider-Man really need another origin story? Since 1963 the story of Spider Man’s origin has been told so many time it should be committed to almost anyone with a passing familiarity with superheroes or popular fiction. It was only a little over 10 years ago that Sam Raimi brought Spider Man’s origin story to…
All Good Things (Magnolia) DVD Review
The strange-but-true case of the disappearance of Katherine Durst, the wife of an emotionally unstable heir to a New York real estate dynasty who was long suspected of her murder but never convicted, has provided the inspiration for All Good Things, the first fictional film from documentary filmmaker Andrew Jarecki. Jarecki came to prominence in…
52 Pick Up (Kino) Blu-ray Review
Harry (Roy Scheider) is a guy who seems to have it all. He has a beautiful wife, a spacious mansion, a classic Jaguar, and a high paying job. Unfortunately, he also has a mistress named Cini (Kelly Preston) and three blackmailers (John Glover, Clarence Williams III, Robert Trebor) that have a videotape of them in…
Alucarda (Mondo Macabro) DVD Review
Justine is a young woman whose parents have both recently died. This tragic turn of events has forced her into a convent, where she is put together in a room with Alucarda, another young woman with a tragic past. Alucarda and Justine quickly become friends, and that friendship actually blossoms into something quite a bit…