Everything changed when artist Tom Sullivan made friends with a young indie film director named Sam Raimi in the late 1970s. Sullivan quickly got swept up into Raimi’s world as the idea to break into the film business with a horror movie became an obsession for a handful of 20 something Michiganites. The Evil Dead…
The Broken Mirror/Unquiet Death – Blu-ray Review (Mondo Macabro)
Anne (Laure Dechasnel) is an art restorer and a barrel of laughs! She’s pregnant with her first child and her husband Matthew (Max von Sydow) and her mom (Micheline Presle) don’t understand why she’s so miserable. They’re concerned about the health of the baby as well as Anne’s mental health. It’s only been a few…
Witchtrap – Blu-ray Review (MVD Rewind)
Plans to turn a haunted house into a bed and breakfast turn deadly when a magician is pushed or is straight up flung out of a third story window to his death by an unseen presence. A ragtag (read as: shitty) group of parapsychologists and a trio of private security dudes show up to exorcise…
Jack Armstrong Blu-ray review
Adapted from the Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy radio series, Wallace Fox’s 1947 serial from Columbia Pictures, entitled Jack Armstrong appears in an epic 15-chapter serial where he must prevent a group of evil thugs from taking over the world! Gang leader Jason Grood (uncredited Charles Middleton from the Flash Gordon serials) and his…
The Boogey Man – 4K UHD/Blu-ray Review (Vinegar Syndrome)
After a traumatic childhood incident that ended with the murder of their mom’s abusive boyfriend, Lacey and Willy, played by real life siblings, Suzanna and Nicholas Love, have tried to live out quiet but happy lives together on a farm. Lacey is married, has a young son, and has sweet, supportive in-laws. Willy has been…
Yakuza Graveyard Blu-ray Review [Radiance]
Springing forth this summer from Radiance is the underseen gangster flick Yakuza Graveyard from acclaimed Japanese director Kinji Fukasaku beautifully restored on blu-ray for the first time. Tetsuya Watari plays a rage-filled cop named Kuroiwa who isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty in pursuit of his goals. Kuroiwa, sickened by his department’s unofficial and…
AmnesiA Blu-ray Review [Cult Epics]
Arriving on blu-ray from Cult Epics is the stylized mind-bending Dutch thriller AmnesiA which netted dual lead actor Fedja van Huêt the Golden Calf Award for best actor. Hop in the car and let’s go face your demons! Van Huêt plays a photographer named Alex who returns to his family’s home after he finds out…
The Iron Prefect – Blu-ray Review (Radiance Films)
Picture it: Sicily, 1925. The tough and incorruptible prefect, Cesare Mori (Giuliano Gemma), has had it with the ding dang mafia. The first thing he sees when he rolls up in Sicily is that the people at the bottom are starving because the gangsters at the top are taking their fill and leaving very little…
Ravishing Dany/The Girl Can’t Stop! Blu-ray Review [Mondo Macabro]
Released recently from perennial boutique favorite Mondo Macabro comes a crazy sex comedy and bleak crime drama in a perverse and fun double feature. Drop your pants, stick out your thumb and get ready to hitchhike into some action! Dany (Sandra Julien of Jean Rollins’ Shiver of the Vampire) is a freelance fashion model hitchhiking…
Red Sun Blu-ray Review [Radiance]
Hitting blu-ray from the exciting new Radiance boutique blu-ray label comes a forgotten crime film from the time of the German New Wave. Let’s sit around the apartment, murder somebody and just chill out and enjoy, huh? Thomas is a drifter aimlessly wandering through Germany when he runs into an ex-girlfriend of his who agrees…