Iconic Dutch director Nouchka van Brakel, who was responsible for A Woman Like Eve which focused on lesbianism, previously explored something even more taboo. In her 1977 film, The Debut (AKA Het Debuut), she conjured up a story about another controversial subject, sex with an underage child and the discreet love affair that would follow…
A Woman Like Eve Blu-ray review
A Woman Like Eve, known as Een vrouw als Eva in the Netherlands, is a 1979 film directed by legendary Dutch filmmaker Nouchka van Brakel. She was a pioneer in the filmmaking industry when it came to feminism and strong female characters. Her films created a stir and followed by controversy when they first came…
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House Blu-ray review
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House is a 1948 comedy drama film about a family wanting to buy and build a home. The film stars a pair of screen icons in Cary Grant and Myrna Loy who were no strangers to screwball comedies. The tale focuses on Jim Blandings (Cary Grant, North by Northwest) and…
Blu-ray Review – Love After Death and The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful – AGFA and Something Weird
After Mr. Montel is “accidentally” buried alive by his wife, he digs his way out of his own grave and goes on some sexy adventures. In life, Montel was sickly, too cowardly, and quite possibly just plain impotent to fulfill his wife’s desires. Now that he’s out and about in the city, he spies on…
Blu-ray Review – Grizzly/Day of the Animals – Severin Films
It is animal attack month at Severin Films, well aside from the tremendous 4k Santa Sangre release, and in a way that HAD ANIMALS in it (that elephant funeral kills me every time). Earlier in the month we got an excellent release of the underseen sharksploitationer Deep Blood by Italian exploitation king Joe D’Amato, and…
Blu-ray Review Homegrown Horrors Vol. 1
There is nothing that feels quite like a backyard, or “Homegrown Horror” film as the latest box set from Vinegar Syndrome calls them. I am not just saying this, as a fan of horror films, but I genuinely feel that horror (with science fiction as a close second) has the most genuinely passionate fan base…
Blu-ray Review – The Cellar – Vinegar Syndrome
So in the early to mid 1990’s I was one of those kids that found the faded VHS tape of Night of the Demons on my local video store shelf brought it home, and promptly had my mind BLOWN. My group of friends who rented PILES of horror films on weekly basis felt like we…
UHD Review – Santa Sangre – Severin Films
Santa Sangre is one of those truly perfect cinematic visions created by an auteur with such a visionary intensity that the whole film appears to be an absolute realization of director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s dreamlike vision. Jodorowsky similar to the Italian master Sergio Leone only directed a handful of features throughout his career, but when he…
Blu-ray Review – Kaiji The Complete Series – Sentai Filmworks
I saw a few episodes of Kaiji a long while back, and while it intrigued me at the time it didn’t hook me and then it faded into the recesses of my mind until the Blu-ray of the complete series ended up on my doorstep the other week. I ended up popping it on, and…
Blu-ray Review – Elfen Lied – Sentai Filmworks
I first saw Elfen Lied through the ADV DVD box set sometime in the mid 2000’s. A friend from the bookstore I worked at recommended I check it out knowing my penchant for both horror and sleazier things. He was right, I was HOOKED. The thing about Elfen Lied though is while though things might…