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…
Blu-ray Review – Megazone 23 – Animeigo
Animeigo is really delivering the goods with their recent slate of Kickstarted classic Anime restorations starting with their GLORIOUS Bubblegum Crisis set (if you don’t have that, you need it, they also have a Kickstarter for Metal Skin Panic – Madox-01 coming up this week, you should contribute if you’re reading this). Their most recent…
Blu-ray Review – Deep Blood – Severin Films
I feel like I find myself constantly praising Severin Films for releasing my favorite type of film, Italian and European exploitation and horror in the best possible editions, and look here I am doing it again. More normal people than myself are constantly decrying the end of physical media, but before Blu-ray happened, I was…
Blu-ray Review – The Fear – Vinegar Syndrome
Richard (Eddie Bowz) is finishing up his degree in psychology and his final thesis is about fear. But instead of writing some stuffy old paper, he’s gonna stage a fear experiment with his friends and some strangers as guinea pigs at a remote cabin. This would be a terrible idea under the best circumstances, but…
Blu-ray Review – Rush Week – Vinegar Syndrome
Jeff (Dean Hamilton) is the hunky but moody head of BDB, a fraternity’s whose chief goal seems to be to traumatize as many people -including the audience of this film- as possible, and he’s set his sights on Toni (Pamela Ludwig), the new reporter for the school paper. At first, Toni ain’t too sure about…