Thomasina (“Thom”) and Martha (“Mars”) are orphaned sisters living in a remote house in the English countryside in 1941. Thom has invented a revolutionary invention nicknamed “Lola” which is able to receive video and audio transmissions from the future. At first, they just use it to listen to rock and roll innovations in the years…
Hot Spur [Severin Films] Blu-ray Review
We open with a group of bored, horny cowboys getting drunk in a bar and then raping a woman while her younger brother Carlo, who works on the same ranch that the cowboys do, watches helplessly. It’s later revealed in flashback that this isn’t even the first time that Carlo has witnessed his sister being…
Misunderstood [Radiance Films] Blu-ray Review
Andrea (Stefano Colagrande) is a boy who just found his mother has died, being told by his remote and stoic father John Duncombe (Anthony Quayle) after his mother’s funeral. Andrea has a younger brother, Milo (Simone Giannozzi), who is not told about his mother, with John wanting to spare Milo the sadness and let him…
The Scavengers [Severin] Blu-Ray Review
The Civil War is over, but Captain Steve Harris (John Bliss of other exploitation films like Chain Gang Women and The Thing with Two Heads) and his band of renegade Confederate soldiers refuse to give up the ghost. Dejected, aimless and looking to raise hell, they invade a small frontier town, bending the locals to…
The Shape of Night [Radiance Films] Blu-ray Review
The film introduces us to a jaded prostitute named Yoshie Nomoto (Miyuki Kuwano who I recognized from Kurosawa’s Red Beard as well as her earlier performances for Nagisa Oshima in Cruel Story of Youth and Night and Fog in Japan) whose latest client takes a shine to her and want to rescue her from the…
Noryang: Deadly Sea [Well Go USA] Blu-ray Review
Noryang: Deadly Sea is the third and final film in the Korean sea battle trilogy, preceded by The Admiral: Roaring Currents and Hansan: Rising Dragon (although Hansan was released after The Admiral, it was actually a prequel). All three films focus on pivotal naval battles during the Japanese Invasions of Korea from 1592 to 1598…
The Great Alligator [Severin] 4K Blu-ray Review
Some bizarrely motivated real estate jackasses decide it’s a great idea to build a swanky resort in the middle of the African jungle. The local jungle god is pretty upset that his precious habitat is being encroached upon and proceeds to take the form of a big ass alligator to eat the shit out every…
The Devil’s Honey [Severin Films] 4K Blu-ray Review
Jessica (Blanca Marsillach) is head-over-heels in love with hot shot saxophone player Johnny (Stefano Madia). Johnny’s unquenchable erotic lust draws Jessica into more perverse and dangerous territory, culminating in Johnny’s involvement in a motorcycle accident. Johnny seems to be fine at first but later collapses in the recording studio, falling into a coma. Meanwhile Dr….
Goodbye Uncle Tom [Blue Underground] 4K Blu-ray Review
The Premise: Documentarians have traveled back to the antebellum southern United States during the pre-Civil War era when slavery was rampant. Their goal is to capture and expose the cruelty and horrors of the slave trade in as realistic a manner as possible. Witness slave ships with poor souls packed into the galley like sardines,…
Butcher Baker Nightmare Maker [Severin Films] 4K Blu-ray Review
Billy Lynch (Jimmy McNichol) was orphaned at a young age after his parents were killed in a brutal car accident involving a logging truck. He is left in the car of his overprotective Aunt Cheryl (Susan Tyrell)and grows up alone with her in a somewhat isolated house on the edge of the woods. Now a…