The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter is a stone-cold classic of the Shaw Brothers studios. It was directed in 1984 by master director Lau Kar-Leung (the 36th Chamber of Shaolin). It was made under a tragic circumstance, in that original leading man (who footage was shot with) Alexander Fu Sheng died in a car accident. The…
Blu-ray Review – Human Lanterns – 88 Films
Human Lanterns is the 1982 Swordplay/Martial Arts/Horror hybrid film by Sun Chung who in the prior year began dabbing in horror and martial arts with his film Revenge of the Corpse. The film follows Master’s Tan Fu and Lung who are ultra competitive with one another. Right now it is the yearly “Lantern” festival, and…
Blu-ray Review – Living Dead at Manchester Morgue – Synapse
Zombie cinema is an interesting thing. In the last few decades it seems the living dead have been everywhere on TV, in the movies, but for years after cinema began you would be lucky to see a long zombie on screens. Sure, throughout the 1930’s and 1940’s you would get an occasional White Zombie, King…
Blu-ray Review – Premutos – The Fallen Angel (Unearthed)
Reflection of a horror junkie, I remember as a kid, or what felt like I was a kid being obsessed with getting my next horror hit. I would troll video stores throughout my just South of Tampa/St. Petersburg hometown trying to find horror films, I hadn’t seen, the most shocking, and weird I could find,…
Blu-ray Review – Sukkubus – Mondo Macabro
Three herdsmen, two grown men and a teenage boy, are up in the mountains tending to their cows and making cheese. Despite all of their superstitious and religious beliefs protecting them and guiding their day-to-day lives, these stupid ass morons conjure up a freakin’ succubus (played by Pamela Prati). She swoops in and causes all…
Blu-ray Review – Reform School Girls – Vinegar Syndrome
Dead Heat, Hellraiser, The Stuff, I’ve seen most of the big classic output of New World Pictures of the mid to late 80’s, but Reform School Girls has always eluded me until now, with this feature packed blu from Vinegar Syndrome, from a new 2K scan of the interpositive Reform School Girls is follows a…
Blu-ray Review Hard Rock Zombies/Slaughterhouse Rock – Vinegar Syndrome
The 80’s were a time of big hair and even bigger music, roaring guitar, pounding synth, and even larger hair. Vinegar Syndrome brings two of the 80’s most wild and loud music centric horror joints in a double feature Blu-Ray package sourced from brand spanking new scans. First up is HARD ROCK ZOMBIES, a completely…
Blu-ray Review – Walker – Criterion
Walker, and I will be completely upfront in the review about this, is arguably Alex Cox’s best film. I have probably watched Repo Man more than this for sheer enjoyment factor (and I’d say both are masterpieces in their own right). But Walker seems to be the film where everything came together for Cox as…
Blu-ray Review – Rogue Cops and Racketeers- Two Crime Thrillers by Enzo G. Castellari
I was what I thought a huge fan of EuroCult and Eurohorror back in 2008, and yet I had not yet seen any films by Enzo G. Castellari, that changed when seemingly overnight Redemption issued Cold Eyes of Fear on DVD, and Severin did Blu-ray’s of The Inglorious Bastards, and Eagles Over London. Soon after…
Blu-ray Review – Sister, Sister – Vinegar Syndrome
Lucy Bonnard (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and her older sister Charlotte (Judith Ivey) live in one of the fine old houses in Louisiana and come from one of the fine old families. Things haven’t been all that great for the pair of them since their parents died and they were forced to turn their mansion into…