Somewhere just outside of Pittsburgh, a mother and her four children are hunting a little girl for their satanic ritual. This family really loves Satan! God bless ‘em! Fast forward to “Yesterday” (sometime in 1982, that is) where we meet Nancy (Melanie Verlin), a teenage girl with an unfortunate haircut. When her creepy cop stepdad…
In the Good Old Summertime Blu-ray review
In what is essentially a musical remake of Ernst Lubitsch’s The Shop Around the Corner, In the Good Old Summertime tells the tale of pen-pals who are in love but are working together in the same retail store where they loathe each other. The picture would later be remade again in the film You’ve Got…
Blu-ray Review – The Fourth Victim – Severin Films
Arthur Anderson (Michael Craig) is your typical guy who’s been widowed three times. Each of his deceased wives had a life insurance policy bigger than the one before her and now the law and his insurance company are getting just a little suspicious of him. Wacky police inspector Dunphy (José Luis López Vázquez) is particularly…
Blu-ray Review – Blades – Vinegar Syndrome
Professional golfer Roy Kent is all washed up and is about ready to finally hit rock bottom. He’s so drunk all the time that he can barely play the sport which made him famous, and his last chance is to become the resident pro at the Tall Grass Country Club. What Roy doesn’t know is…
Magical Girl Site: Complete Collection Review
The Plot: Aya Asagiri is bullied and beaten at school and abused at home by her own sociopathic brother. When she stumbles across a mysterious website promising to make her a magical girl, it provides just enough incentive to continue moving forward, especially when she finds a weird heart-shaped gun in her locker the next…
The Window Blu-ray review
Director Ted Tetzlaff’s The Window is the story about nine year old Tommy Woodry (Bobby Driscoll, Song of the South) who tells so many lies to his parents, that when something real actually happens to him, they don’t believe him, nearly causing Tommy his life. The tale of The Window is basically a ‘boy who…
Blu-ray Review – She Freak – Vinegar Syndrome, AGFA, Something Weird
Jade Cochran (Claire Brennen), a waitress in a skeevy gas station slash diner, has her eyes on the prize. And that prize is literally anything other than working for her sleazy boss named Greasy (Claude Earl Jones). Hold up, his name is Greasy? Is that a family name? I’m going to have to trust IMDB…
Shadow of the Thin Man Blu-ray review
Shadow of the Thin Man is the fourth of six Thin Man movies starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles. In this caper, the married couple stumble upon another murder case that happens at a racetrack where a jockey is shot to death. Nick’s pal Lieutenant Abrams (Sam Levene, After the…
Blu-ray Review – Invaders of the Lost Gold – Severin
Review—Invaders of the Lost Gold (Severin) Author: Palo Sionoplia Invaders of the Lost Gold (aka Horror Safari aka Greed) is the addled brainchild of Dick Randall, the infamous exploitation producer of shlock oddities that include The French Sex Murders, The Wild Wild World of Jayne Mansfield, and, of course, Pieces (which is exactly what you…
Blu-ray Review – Born for Hell – Severin
Review—Born for Hell (Severin) Author: Palo Sionoplia Born for Hell is a retelling of Richard Speck’s infamous night of horror with a few twists. Most notably, director Denis Heroux takes the story out of its native Chicago terrain and transplants the tale to Belfast, effectively setting the tale of one night’s rampage within a larger…