Attack of the Beast Creatures, also known as Hell Island, is a regional independent horror film produced and directed by Michael Stanley. It was filmed in Stanford, Connecticut, and stars a cast of unknowns who are basically known for this one movie! Taking place in 1920, the story is about a group of travelers that…
UHD Review – Freeway – Vinegar Syndrome
I haven’t seen Freeway since the 1990’s. This film which stars Reese Witherspoon as an illiterate teenager from a really messed up home life, is a fairy tale adaptation. This one, of course, is an adaptation of Red Riding Hood. In this one Witherspoon plays Vanessa, a teenage girl who finds her shitty existence turned…
Blu-ray Review – In the Folds of the Flesh – Mondo Macabro
Sergio Bergonzelli’s In the Folds of the Flesh is just about one of the most lurid, pulpy, and quite possibly downright strangest gialli one is likely to see. However, it doesn’t go over the deep-end in its weirdness and into the incomprehensible, and rather chooses to stay in the realm of the entertaining, and very…
Space Monster Wangmagwi Blu-ray review
Never, and I mean NEVER in my lifetime did I think I would ever get the opportunity to watch Space Monster Wangmagwi, let alone review it. Showing my age somewhat, I had first heard of this film and been wanting to see the movie for at least thirty years. SRS Cinema has done what for…
EuroCultAV – Holiday Gift Guide 2022 – Page 1 – Blu-ray, UHD, DVD
Written by the staff of EuroCultAV – Scott MacDonald, David Steigman, Richard Glenn Schmidt, and Ben Tucker I know it’s a cliché at this point, but I feel like I just did this, but here we are again. Another year as past in the pop culture verse, the universe is expanding, and ECAV is here…
EuroCultAV Gift Guide 2022 – Page 2 – Tabletop Gaming, Books, and Music
MIND MGMT (Off The Page Games) Mind Mgmt is a hidden movement game based off the comic book of the same name. If you’ve seen David Cronenberg’s seminal Scanners you have a kinda, sort of touch off point for the story of the comic (psychic warfare, espionage). The game, however is quickly shooting up to…
Wild West Days Blu-ray review
Based on the novel by W.R. Burnett, Wild West Days is a 13-chapter serial from Universal Studios. This 1937 serial was directed by Ford Beebe (The Phantom Creeps) and Clifford Smith (Secret Agent X-9). In this serial, Kentucky Wade (screen legend Johnny Mack Brown, The Oregon Trail, Female, A Woman of Affairs), Dude Hanford, Mike…
French Noir Collection Blu-ray review
For those that like French films and Noirs, Kino Lorber has assembled a trio of French Noir films for a Blu-ray release, called the French Noir Collection, which houses Speaking of Murder, Back to the Wall and Witness in the City. This is their first French Noir set offering on Blu-ray from Kino as far…
Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things UHD / Blu-ray review
The 1972 horror flick known as Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things is one of the weirdest zombie movies out there. It’s every bit as chilling as Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead, at least during the last half hour of the movie. The film was directed by Bob Clark (Black…
Fancy Pants Blu-ray review
Comedy icons Bob Hope and Lucille Ball team-up in the 1950 Technicolor film Fancy Pants, directed by George Marshall, where Bob gets in over his head with some crazy impersonation shenanigans. The film is a musical version of Ruggles of Red Gap. Fancy Pants was the second pairing of the two icons, as in 1949…