Four Frightened People is a pre-code film from 1934 directed by the legendary Cecile B. DeMille. This is another one of his exotic adventure films taking place in the jungle where dangers await his characters. The movie stars the great Claudette Colbert, who I have never seen before with her hair going down to her…
Step by Step Blu-ray review
The 1940s were filled with World War II propaganda films with the villains being Nazis. The 1946 film Step by Step from RKO Pictures is one such film, bet it a lesser known one where Nazis are still trying to take over the world, this time with a base in sunny California! This is a…
Blu-ray Review – House of Wax – Scream Factory
A bunch of twentysomething teen funsters are waylaid on their way to the big sporting teams event when they have vehicular malfunction. They discover a rather strange small town and its only attraction, a wax museum. Pretty soon, they’re almost all dead! Would you like to know more about these characters? Very well. Carly (Elisha…
Blu-ray Review – The Dead Zone – Scream Factory
Christopher Walken plays Johnny Smith, a high school English teacher who gains psychic abilities after a horrific (or hilarious) car accident puts him in a coma. All Johnny has to do is touch a person and he can see that something horrible is going to happen to them, like hosting a Tupperware party. After this…
Blu-ray Review – The EuroCrypt of Christopher Lee (Severin)
When I was 12 (well over 25 years ago), AMC showed Hammer’s Horror of Dracula one October evening. I had just read the Stoker novel for the first time, and was originally taken back by the divergence from the source material (Yes, I was that much of a nerd), and then Christopher Lee came onto…
Guns for San Sebastian Blu-ray review
Guns for San Sebastian is a spaghetti Western starring the late great legendary star Anthony Quinn, the iconic Charles Bronson and directed by French film director Henri Verneuil. This movie is based on the novel A Wall for San Sebastian and is noted for being an Italian film that was shot in Mexico. Taking place…
Blu-ray Review – The Stylist – Arrow Video
Claire (Najarra Townsend) isn’t your average stylist. She’s exceptionally good at her job and once in a while, she drugs her clientele and scalps them so that she can become them. No biggie. When Olivia (Brea Grant), one of her regular clients, enlists her help to give her the perfect wedding look, Claire believes that…
There Was a Crooked Man…Blu-ray review
There Was a Crooked Man is a 1970 Western directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, which wound up being the only film he directed in this genre. The film stars Henry Fonda and Kirk Douglas, a pair of screen icons. The story is about Paris Pittman, Jr. (Kirk Douglas, Out of the Past) a criminal that…
Ziegfeld Follies Blu-ray review
Ziegfeld Follies is a musical comedy from 1945 with an all-star cast and a great ensemble of directors. The story is about the late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. (William Powell, The Thin Man), who is looking down from the Heavens, wishing he could have one last follies. He knows who he would use and…
Blu-ray Review – Irezumi – Arrow Video
Knowing that their families won’t approve of their relationship, Otsuya (Ayako Wakao) and her lover Shinsuke (Akio Hasegawa) elope one wintry night. While waiting for a blessing -and some cash- from her father, Otsuya is kidnapped and sold to a geisha house and her beau is nearly murdered by a goon hired by the man…