Category: Blu-ray

The Million Eyes of Sumuru [Blue Underground] 4K UHD Blu-ray Review

Like the Christopher Lee-starring Fu Manchu films that Harry Alan Towers produced concurrently in the ’60s, The Million Eyes of Sumuru features a character torn from the pages of the novels of Sax Rohmer. Sumuru (Goldfinger Bond girl Shirley Eaton) is a dastardly yet sexy mastermind who is hell bent on world domination by systematically…


Cheeky! [Cult Epics] 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Review

Carla (Yuliya Mayarchuk) is out looking for an apartment to rent in London with her boyfriend Matteo (Jarno Berardi). She meets a sexy real estate agent named Moira (Francesca Nunzi) who is willing to rent Carla an apartment in exchange for certain…favors… Meanwhile Matteo discovers some old letters and pictures that Carla had kept from…


Night of the Blood Beast/Attack of the Giant Leeches Blu-ray review

Film Masters has once again gone into the Corman vaults for a highly anticipated pair of classic B-movies in a must own double feature. The latest Blu-ray presentation has a couple of late-night creature feature classics in Night of the Blood Beast and Attack of the Giant Leeches that were produced by Roger and Gene…


Criminally Insane/Satan’s Black Wedding [Vinegar Syndrome] Blu-ray Review

Directed by Nick Millard This Vinegar Syndrome disc includes two movies directed by Nick Millard. They work well as a double feature since both films clock in at just over an hour. Nick Millard started out in the film business making adult movies and then transitioned to horror films with the two films in this…


Killers: Unrated Director’s Cut [Synapse Films] Blu-ray Review

Notorious killers the James Boys, Odessa (Dave Larson) and Kyle (David Gunn), who murdered their parents in cold blood, have escaped from San Quentin and find themselves on the run from a nationwide manhunt in a turbulent thunderstorm. They decide to seek shelter in a random suburban household, taking hostage the ‘gee golly’ All-American nuclear…


Tótem [Janus Contemporaries] Blu-ray Review

Seven-year-old Sol (Naíma Sentíes) is preparing to celebrate her father Tona (Mateo Garcia)’s birthday along with her mother, aunts and other relatives at her grandfather’s house. Casting a pall over the entire event is the fact that Tona is terminally ill and does not have much longer to live. Amid the stresses and the hustle…


Fata/Morgana [Mondo Macabro] Blu-ray Review

a.k.a. Left-handed Fate (1965) Starring Teresa Gimpera, Marianne Benet, Marcos Martí To be honest, I’m not sure what I just watched. The cover art, tagline, and back cover suggested a very different movie than what I experienced. It is a Spanish film from the mid-1960s and Mondo Macabro’s release has cover art that make the…


A Man On His Knees [Radiance Films] Blu-ray Review

What would you do if you suddenly and inexplicably found yourself the potential target of a hitman? This is the precise situation that Nino Peralta (Giuliano Gemma), simple husband and father who works at a coffee stand, finds himself in when he is told that he is one of eight targets for elimination by one…


The Beast Within (2024) [Well Go USA] Blu-ray Review

10-year-old Willow (Caoilinn Springall) lives with her mother (Ashleigh Cummings) and father (Kit Harrington) deep in the woods in a heavily isolated existence apart from civilization. Occasionally in the middle of the night during a full moon, her father and mother covertly disappear into the woods where they do not return until the following morning….


Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy [Criterion Collection] Blu-Ray Review

Criterion Collection, in collaboration with Strand Releasing, bring for the first time in high definition in North America, Gregg Araki’s crazy, influential Teen Apolcalypse Trilogy, comprised of the films Totally F***ed Up, The Doom Generation and Nowhere. It’s been a long time coming, so let’s dig in! Totally F***ed Up from 1993 follows the lives…