Earlier this month, Sentai Filmworks released upon the world the latest season of the light, quirky slice-of-life anime Is the Order a Rabbit? to blu-ray. How does this cute and silly workplace comedy stack up? Let’s dig in to find out! If you’re just tuning in, BLOOM is the third season of the story of…
Hidamari Sketch: Graduation OVA [Sentai Filmworks Blu-Ray] Review
Sentai Filmworks has finally completed the entire run of Hidamari Sketch with this blu-ray release of the final two OVA episodes of the series. Does everything wrap up with a nice warm feeling of fun and friendship? Let’s dive in and find out! The first episode finds the oldest student residents of Hidamari Apartments, Sae…
UHD Review – Madman – Vinegar Syndrome
Original Review By Brad Hogue2022 4K Update Notes by Scott MacDonald At the conclusion of camping season for gifted children at North Sea Cottages, everyone is gathered around the campfire singing songs and telling stories. Head counselor Max tells the story of a beast of a man farmer that went crazy and killed his family….
UHD Review – American Werewolf in London – Arrow Video
ohn Landis’ 1980 film An American Werewolf in London has the personal distinction of being my 2nd favorite horror film of all-time (The #1 being Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond). I first saw this on tape over 25 years ago for the first time, and have owned copies in every format (in multiple editions) ever since….
UHD Review – X-Ray Schizoid – Vinegar Syndrome
Review by Bobby Morgan 2022 4K Notes by Scott MacDonald X-RAY Among the many psycho-on-the-loose horror flicks pumped out of Hollywood and independent studios during the early 1980’s – and there were a literal ton of them – Boaz Davidson’s X-Ray, released by youngish Cannon Films in 1982, was neither the best of the widely-loathed…
Blu-ray Review – Paranoiac – Scream Factory
The Ashby kids never fully recovered from the twin tragedies of losing their parents and the suicide of their brother Tony. Simon Ashby (Oliver Reed) has grown into a total dickbagel who’s intent on burning through his inheritance before he even gets old enough to receive it. His sister Eleanor (Jeanette Scott) is a sickly…
Blu-ray Review – The Monster of Camp Sunshine – AGFA/Vinegar Syndrome
BFFs Claire and Marta are a pair of fun, independent ladies. Marta works in a laboratory that exclusively experiments on animals and Claire is one of them there fashion models. When the weekend comes, these two gals ditch the big city and head out to Camp Sunshine. That’s right, these ladies are a pair of…
Blu-ray Review – Master of the World – Vinegar Syndrome
Two hundred thousand years ago, a somewhat more smarter than the average caveperson named Bok runs afoul of not one, but two warring tribes. One group are a bunch of murderous dickweeds, and the other are a bunch of murderous dickweeds who also eat the brains of their foes. There’s some romance between Bok and…
Knocking [Yellow Veil Pictures Blu-ray] Review
Knocking arrives on blu-ray courtesy of Yellow Veil Pictures, one of Vinegar Syndrome’s many partner labels. Molly (Cecilia Milocco) has just moved into a new apartment after an implied tragedy in her recent past which landed her in a psychiatric hospital for a stint. Not long after settling in, she begins to hear rhythmic knocking…
Blu-ray Review – Don’t Go in the House – Severin Films
Dan Grimaldi plays blue collar worker Donny “I’m not Donny Osmond” Kohler who becomes somewhat troubled after his abusive mother finally kicks the bucket. At first, he’s overjoyed to be free of her tyranny, but he’s so deranged that he starts doing what every boy does without his mommy around: he takes a flamethrower and…