The Sword and the Claw is a 1975 Turkish film and is the best kind of terrible. The story is simple. A king is overthrown by corrupt noblemen. The prince is born and raised by lions, eventually returning to unseat the usurper. There are plot twists that are so laughable that I can’t believe the…
Springfield Rifle Blu-ray review
Directed by Andre de Toth, who was well-known for his work on the timeless classic House of Wax, and various Noir and Western classics, Springfield Rifle is a feature that stars screen icon Gary Cooper and takes place during the Civil War. But it’s more than just your average Western as the well-renowned directed has…
Side Street Blu-ray review
There’s nothing like a story of a man who steals money so he, his wife and child can have a better life but then feels completely conflicted about it! In Anthony Mann’s Film Noir Side Street is such a film about your average American committing a crime and later regretting it! The movie was shot…
Eating Miss Campbell [Troma] Blu-ray Review
Beth Conner (Lyndsey Craine) is a disaffected outsider goth kid trapped in a nightmare high school where the new principal brought in, Mr. Sawyer (Vito Trigo), is tasked with bringing the out-of-control students in line and comes up with the ludicrous idea of putting on an All You Can Eat Massacre where the winner will…
Mask of Satan [Severin] Blu-ray Review
Davide (Giovanni Guidelli) and his friends (including Mary Sellers, Debora Caprioglio and fellow Italian director Michele Soavi) are skiing in the mountains when they accidentally fall into a crevasse in the snow, finding themselves trapped in some kind of ice cave. Inside this cave, they discover the frozen body of a woman with a strange…
The Carpenter [Vinegar Syndrome] Blu-ray release
The Carpenter, released on Blu-ray by Vinegar Syndrome, looks like a generic 80s slasher film at first glance. My initial reaction based on the opening in a mental asylum was that this is a comedy. There are strange things in the background that made me chuckle or raise my eyebrows. For example, as the main…
Project Silence [Capelight] Blu-Ray Review
When a dense fog causes a massive car pile-up on a bridge, disrupting the bridge’s structural integrity (a helicopter crash definitely doesn’t help things either), Jeong-won (Lee Sun-Kyun) and his daughter find their plans of heading to the airport to catch a flight completely wrecked to say the least. To make matters worse, amid the…
Antiviral [Severin] 4k/Blu-ray Release
Antiviral (2012) was a sci-fi/horror film directed by Brandon Cronenberg, the son of famous body-horror director, David Cronenberg. Severin released it as a two-disc set on 4k and Blu-ray. The movie has an interesting premise. In the near future, celebrity obsession has reached a level where people are paying for celebrity infections. There is an…
Performance [Criterion] Blu-ray Review
Chas (James Fox) is a gangster who pushes his luck too far by executing a rival and earns the ire of his boss Harry Flowers (Johnny Shannon) in a real bad way. Forced to go on the run, he hides out in a Notting Hill basement of a burned out, reclusive rock star named Turner…
Blood Tracks [Vinegar Syndrome] Blu-ray Review
Easy Action was an 80s metal band that was chosen to be in “Blood Tracks”, a slasher film about a metal band and their entourage trapped by an avalanche and hunted by a family of outcasts. Released in 1985, with an 89-minute runtime, the film is one of many 80s slashers. The movie opens with…