If you’re anything like me -and for your sake, I hope you’re not- then you’re a fan of Italian gothic horror, a devotee of the candelabra, a Babs Steele stan, a see-through gown in a moonlit graveyard enthusiast, etc. The Italian gothics can be enjoyed on a dark and stormy night or a lazy Sunday…
Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal: The Complete Second Season Blu-ray [WB]
Hacking and slashing it’s way through a swath of gore and anger comes Season Two of Genndy Tartakovsky (Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Star Wars: Clone Wars)’s ode to Robert E. Howard and Edgar Rice Burroughs, Primal on blu-ray from Warner Bros. and [adult swim]. Could this be Tartakovsky’s finest production? For those who may not…
Extra Terrestrial Visitors Blu-ray Review [Severin]
Coming in June from Severin Films is the gloriously bizarre Extra Terrestrial Visitors a.k.a. Tales of Trumpy a.k.a. E.T.: The Second Coming a.k.a. The Unearthling a.k.a. Return of E.T., although Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans will know it much better by it’s original US home video release title Pod People). We were lambasted with many…
Blu-ray Review – In the Line of Duty (88 Films)
I’m not sure if 88 Films just got lucky or if this was planned, but between Super Cop and the In the Line of Duty Box Set, the company sure has a lot of Michelle Yeoh out in the year that the most well deserved actress has become an Oscar winner. Regardless of the reasoning,…
Blu-ray and 4K UHD Jackie Chan-Mania (Shout Factory and 88 Films)
So it’s been a wild few months for Jackie Chan releases between Shout Factory’s Jackie Chan Collection Volume 2 (1983-1993) and 88 Films Police Story III Supercop 4K UHD release. Between the two sets I am in an ecstatic place as far as our favorite Hong Kong funnyman goes. It has been more than a…
Violent Streets: The Umberto Lenzi/Tomas Milian Collection Blu-ray Box Set Review [Severin]
Severin Films is no stranger to delivering the goods when it comes to quenching your eurosploitation thirst. And let me tell you that HOT DAWG does this one hit the spot! Severin has graced us with a hefty, sturdy box with a very nice design that is chock full of poliziotteschi goodness, all directed by…
House of Terrors – Blu-ray Review (Mondo Macabro)
Yoshie (Yûko Kusunoki) receives news that her husband has died under mysterious circumstances. Then she finds out that he had a mistress AND even had a creepy old villa out in the middle of nowhere that she’s inherited. You take the good. You take the bad. You take them both and then you have… the…
The Green Hornet – 1940 serial Blu-ray review
The Green Hornet is a 1940 thirteen-chapter serial from Universal Pictures that was based on a radio series from the 1930’s by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker. Gordon Jones (The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap, The Big Shot) stars as both Britt Reid, publisher of The Sentinel newspaper, and the masked hero known as…
Wings of Disaster: The Birdemic Trilogy – Blu-ray Review (Severin Films/Intervision)
Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010) is more than just the title of a film, it’s also a film. In this film, on a place resembling Earth, in a little burg called Half Moon Bay, software engineer/salesman Rod (Alan Bagh) manages to make the biggest sale of his career and lands a date with supermodel Nathalie…
Ya Boy Kongming! Complete Collection Blu-ray [Sentai Filmworks]
Fresh out the gate on blu-ray comes the mighty Kongming, rockin’ the mic and representin’ like a BOSS. Let’s check out how this quirky fish-out-of-water time travel comedy meets inspirational pop artist triumph brings it! Zhuge Kongming was a masterful tactician who ruled during the Three Kingdoms era of ancient China. Fallen sick and with…