Part scuzzy early 80’s police procedural, part gooey monster movie, SCARED TO DEATH is the debut of writer/director William Malone, who would most famously go on to helm such films as CREATURE, and the 1999 remake of THE HILLS HAVE EYES, here we have him in ultra-low budget mode, crafting a real down and dirty…
Blu-ray Review – Out of Order – Subkultur
Subkultur Films is making their way into the American market with this UHD/Blu combo of OUT OF ORDER, an incredibly tense and claustrophobic cross between a disaster film and character piece. On a Friday evening, four people find themselves trapped in an elevator. Facing the threat of a weekend trapped in the elevator and limited…
Blu-ray Review – Satan’s Children – AGFA
The 1970’s were a boom for exploitation films, everyone and their mother could get a film into seedy grindhouses and drive-ins. Florida was one of the many regional hotspots for horror and exploitation, and with audiences going gaga in the late 60’s/early 70’s for occult and satanic films, in came a tiny film from the…
Blu-ray Review- Final Flesh – AGFA
If you were like me, you enjoyed comedy that was left of center, stuff like WONDER SHOZEN, which aired on MTV2, and XAVIER: RENEGADE ANGEL, which aired on Adult Swim. Both of these were co-created by Vernon Chatman, who wrote this film I’m reviewing today, FINAL FLESH. The film is about a family of four…
Blu-ray Review – Death Game – Grindhouse Releasing
Peter S. Traynor’s Death Game is a film I have been hearing about for years (yes, before Eli Roth remade it as Knock, Knock in 2015). The film is a sleazy exploitation fueled romp that stars Seymour Cassel as George, a wealthy businessman who finds himself alone on his 40th birthday after his wife gets…
Blu-ray Review – Mother of the Goddess Dormitory – Sentai Filmworks
Mother of the Goddess Dormitory is RIDICULOUS! I mean this in the best way possible, of course. So the series follows Koushi, who is down on his luck middle schooler who is having a hell of a year. Koushi’s house burns down, his parents disown him, and for all practical purposes he is homeless (IS…
Creature from Black Lake Blu-ray review
For those who love watching films with Bigfoot, look no further than the 1976 thriller, Creature from Black Lake. This creature classic has a pair of legendary actors in Jack Elam and Dub Taylor, cinematography by Dean Cundey, a somewhat scary looking creature and lots of swamp cheese. This movie may give viewers a sense…
The Cornshukker Blu-ray Review
Pale white, rail thin, squatting. Eating corn raw, straight from the cob in a cornfield. This is how we meet our protagonist(?). This strange individual with seemingly psychic powers of some kind meets a parade of eccentric and memorable characters. A fat man mimics his motions and has an usual fixation with a clown painting…
UHD Review – Dog Soldiers – Scream Factory
Dog Soldiers is one of the finest werewolf films of the 21st Century, and to be honest could easily squeeze into the pantheon of all time genre best as far as werewolf films are concerned. The werewolf as a cinematic monster is so drastically under utilized unlike it’s cinematic counterparts zombies and vampires, that when…
UHD Review – Cat People – Scream Factory
It will seem that in the last decade we have been in the midst of a remake/reboot trend that simply will not stop. The remakes of our current period are less from visionary directors with a new angle of an established classic, and more about using the title of an established classic as a profit…