Shock Treatment, known as Traitement de choc is a French/Italian production starring the legendary actor Alain DeLon in one of his most outrageous roles, iconic French actress Annie Giradot and directed by Alain Jessua. The film is a cult favorite among fans of the genre. The story is about what lengths a person is willing…
Test Tube Babies /Guilty Parents Blu-ray review
Kino Lorber, in conjunction with Something Weird Video have released their latest Blu-ray in their Forbidden Fruit, the Golden Age of Exploitation Picture Volume 7. In this volume the two films are Test Tube Babies directed by W. Merle Connell, who was responsible for The Devil’s Sleep and Jack Townley’s Guilty Parents, which is one…
The Face at the Window Blu-ray review
The Face at the Window is a 1939 British horror thriller starring screen legend Tod Slaughter, along with Marjorie Taylor and John Warwick. It is something I would classify as a low-budget one-hour wonder which, in this case is not necessarily a bad thing! Taking place in Paris in 1880, The Face at the Window…
The Shepherd of the Hills Blu-ray review
The Shepherd of the Hills is a 1941 drama film that stars screen icon John Wayne, along with Betty Field and veteran actor Harry Carey. This movie has gone down in history as being John Wayne’s first appearance in technicolor! The movie had been made before in both 1919 and 1928 and would later be…
Blu-ray Review – Punch Line (Sentai Filmworks)
Punch Line is a very very weird show. I thought at first it was going to be a cliché ecchi/pantie shot anime series, and for a long while it appeared to be. I won’t spoil things, but this is a show that does shift in tone for the better after its first half. The show…
Blu-ray Review – Shirobako (Sentai Filmworks)
Shirobako will seriously affect you if you have ever tried to work as a creative. Have you and your friends ever tried to make a career in films, start a band, make an album and hit the road only to realize that it was a long and arduous road? Shiroback WILL AEFFECT YOU. The series…
Blu-ray Review – Death Laid an Egg (Cult Epics)
Death Laid an Egg is a 1968 giallo film directed by Giulio Questi, who was most known to me previously as the director of my favorite western. The complete and utterly bizarre Django Kill… If He Lives Shoot! Which is one way that Death Laid an Egg could also be described, completely and utterly bizarre….
Severin Films – Black Friday Sale Review
It is that time of year again when the holidays are rolling around the stores are trying to get shoppers in with cut throat deals. It is also the time of years when our beloved home video labels unleash some surprise goodies upon their various fandoms. It’s an exciting time for sure, a lot of…
Blu-ray Review – Ghost Dog – The Way of the Samurai (Criterion)
I have this thing, I call the “Easy Rider Theory of Home Video Visuals”. I don’t want to come across as arrogant, but I honestly believe a bad transfer of a movie can ruin even the best film. Get a copy of Citizen Kane or 8 ½, wash it out, transfer it to 10th generation…
Blu-ray Review – Brute Force/The Naked City (Criterion)
Odd to admit this, but it was my love of the films of Jean-Pierre Melville that lead me to find Jules Dassin. I remember trying to find anything that resembled Le Samourai and Le Cercle Rouge in the wake of seeing those in my early 20’s and finding Dassin’s Rififi in the process (I’m not…