Category: Blu-ray

Swamp Thing – 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Review (MVD Visual)

Government stooge Alice Cable (Adrienne Barbeau) is sent out to the swamps of North Carolina to look in on the research of Dr. Alec Holland (Ray Wise) to see how his crazy formula is going. Holland is supposed to be making something that glows green like the reanimation agent that Dr. Herbert West developed a…


Project: ALF Blu-ray Review

From the folks at Liberation Hall, we now have the belated ALF TV movie on blu-ray! If you’ve felt that your life has been meaningless and empty without that furry, smart-mouthed devourer of cats, worry no more! If you found yourself tearing your hair out with suspense at the end of the ALF TV series,…


Johanna Enlists Blu-ray review

VCI Entertainment has once again partnered with The Mary Pickford Foundation and have released another classic silent film with the legendary actress. Not too long ago, they give us a great release of Sparrows, and now through the pair of companies, they have released Johanna Enlists onto Blu-ray!  This picture is a 1918 silent comedy…


Drowning by Numbers UHD Blu-ray Review [Severin]

Three, six, nine, twelve, fifteen, eighteen, twenty-one… It’s all a game until it’s not. Coming this month from Severin is the baffling, gorgeous and deeply fascinating Peter Greenaway film Drowning by Numbers in a glorious new UHD transfer. Where does this film rank in the pantheon of weirdo auteurist Greenaway’s ouevre? Three generations of women,…


Alien from the Abyss Blu-ray Review [Severin]

Coming later this month from our dear friends at Severin… THE CLAW! OH GOD!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! Oh wait, it’s just Alien from the Abyss a.k.a. Alien from the Deep (as my old, junky One 7 DVD calls it), part jungle action, part Aliens rip-off, all eurotrash good-badness. Let’s pop this puppy in and…


The Complete Comic Strip Presents… Channel 4 Films Blu-ray Review [Severin Films]

Do you like your bust-a-gut, rolling-around-on-the-floor, so-funny-it-hurts alternative British comedy? No? Piss off then! Still here? Good. Because Severin has just delivered up a heaping helping of tasty treats in blu-ray disc form (WARNING: DO NOT EAT BLU-RAY) that is guaranteed to give you the guffaws at least a time or two throughout the three…


Danza Macabra Vol. One: The Italian Gothic Collection – Blu-ray Review (Severin Films)

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,…