In Vacation of Terror (1989), a bunch of sepia-toned villagers tie a witch to a tree and give her plenty of time to curse everyone before they imprison her soul in a doll and throw it down a well. Also, they set the witch on fire. Flash forward to the greatest decade that ever was…
The Abomination Blu-ray Review [Visual Vengeance]
From director Bret McCormick (Repligator, Ozone: Attack of the Redneck Mutants) comes this delirious lo-fi special effects-on-the-cheap romp. A grown ass man named Cody lives with his religious nut mother who is obsessed with a specific televangelist. When his mom vomits up a carnivorous, sentient tumor, Cody is dismayed to find that the tumor has…
Ghoulies II – Blu-ray Review (MVD Rewind)
A man running with a bagful of ghoulies with a bunch of cloaked figures hot on his trail starts this story off. The man is less than successful at destroying the little monsters than he’d hoped. Now the ghoulies have hitched a ride on a carnival caravan and take up residence in the spookhouse. This…
The Scarlet Letter (1934) Blu-ray review
The Scarlet Letter is a 1934 drama on a topic that was highly sensitive at the time, adultery. The story involves a married woman who has an affair, and a child out of wedlock and is publicly condemned and humiliated shortly thereafter. During this time in our history, adultery was extremely taboo and highly deviant…
What the Waters Left Behind: Scars Blu-ray Review [Cleopatra]
In this sequel to the original 2017 film What the Waters Left Behind, this time directed solo by Nicolás Onetti sans his brother Luciano (who still hangs around to handle the music), we return to the ghost town of Epecuén, a town that had been submerged for 25 years under water. Once the waters receded,…
Arnold – Blu-ray Review (Vinegar Syndrome)
Karen (Stella Stevens) is beside herself with joy. It’s her wedding day and she’s finally going from being the mistress of Lord Arnold Dwellyn to being his wife. There’s just one tiny problem: Arnold is frickin’ dead. Zany! How the cost-cutting trend of pairing both your funeral and wedding on the same day never caught…
Black Circle Blu-ray Review [Synapse Films]
Celeste is struggling to get her life in order. Between losing her job and breaking up with her boyfriend, she feels aimless and unloved, so she seeks advice from her sister who seems to have it all together. Her sister tells her about a self-help system called Magnetic Hypnotism that has helped her and gives…
Repligator Blu-ray Review [Visual Vengeance]
Dr. Oliver is a scientist with a dream. Working for the military, he has built a revolutionary transporter device that should enable our troops to teleport behind enemy lines and infiltrate like never before. The problem is that when he tests out the transporter device on a soldier, it turns him into a woman. Well,…
Tenebrae – 4K UHD and Blu-ray Review (Synapse Films)
When Dario Argento finished Inferno in 1980, everyone expected him to complete the Three Mothers trilogy with another supernatural horror film. Instead, he said, “I’m going to make the greatest giallo ever made… um… again!” The first time I saw Tenebrae, I couldn’t believe my eyes. Even though some pesky Google searches had spoiled a…
The Sound of Summer Blu-ray Review [Unearthed Films]
The world is like a blast furnace, sweat dripping from every pore. It’s hot enough to drive a person mad, right? Swimming through the humidity of seemingly never-ending day, the piercing cries of the cicadas are all that you can perceive while just. trying. to. get. home. Do you know The Cicada Man? They say…