When I started “The Ones Within” I thought I was in for just another series where people from the real world get thrown into their video game of choice. It seems in the aftermath of Overlord, this type of thing has almost become a cliché. This one is a tad different in its approach, because…
Blu-ray Review – Shivers – Vestron Video
I remember a time when seeing the early works on David Cronenberg was damn near impossible, works like Shivers, Fast Company, even stuff like the Brood and Rabid were difficult to secure in small-town Florida where I was raised. His even earlier more experimental films like Stereo and Crimes of the Future were next to…
Blu-ray Review – Armored Trooper VOTOMS – Complete Collection – Maiden Japan
Admittedly, it has been a long year, so my memory has been a bit worse than usual in regards to all the releases that have come across my desk. But if you were to ask me what my favorite anime release of 2020 was, I’d have to say this SD on Blu-ray release of Armored…
Blu-ray Review – Skinned Alive (Make Flix/Tempe Digital)
The mid 80’s through the mid 90’s was pretty much the glory days of backyard horror. Most of this ended up being shot on video (SOV) as that made filmmaking more accessible to more people (which lead to so much cool crazy stuff being made), but some filmmakers still managed to get some violent crazy…
Demonia (Severin) Blu-ray Review
Brett Halsey plays Professor Paul Evans, an archeologist leading an excavation in Sicily. Liza Harris (Meg Register), one of his colleagues on the dig, becomes obsessed with the chambers underneath a church on the mountain overlooking the village where the team is working. It was site of a massacre committed by the local townspeople of…
Best Friends (1975) (Vinegar Syndrome) Blu-ray review
Long time friends Jesse and Pat (Richard Hatch and Doug Chapin) have finally made it home after a tour of duty in Vietnam. To celebrate their newfound freedom, the guys decide to go on one last road trip with their girlfriends before they settle down and get married. The trip starts innocently enough, but it…
The Caller (Vinegar Syndrome) Blu-ray Review
While she’s preparing for a dinner date, a woman (Madolyn Smith Osborne) staying in a secluded cabin gets an unexpected visit from a man (Malcolm McDowell) claiming to be a stranded motorist. Their conversation turns from small talk to interrogations as both of these people appear to be hiding something. Is the man a traveling…
Pandemonium (Vinegar Syndrome) Blu-ray Review
After the big game, a high school cheerleading squad is skewered on a javelin, thus kicking off a rash of brutal cheerleader murders. Years later, cheer wannabe Bambi (Candice Azzara) starts her own cheerleading camp at the very school where the murders took place. So, it’s no surprise when the new squad starts getting knocked…
Gundala (Well Go USA) Blu-ray review
Sancaka (Muxakki Ramdhaan)’s life is thrown upside down when his father is murdered during an Indonesian factory worker’s protest. After moving to a new apartment, his mother leaves him to find work. But work doesn’t come and it seems like Sancaka is left to be on his own. He grows up homeless in the rough…
Blu-ray Review Demon Lord, Retry! (Funimation)
I’m not sure if this genre was spurred on by the success of Overlord, but it seems as if the last few years, we have seen an abundance of “isekai” anime. Basically, we see an average person transported into a fantasy world, mostly a video game one as in Overlord. Which is what we have…