Actor Sandro Bitetto is hired to play Italian horror director Lucio Fulci in a film about his life. The problem is that he doesn’t know jack squat about the “Godfather of Gore”. So, he goes around interviewing Fulci movie experts, his former colleagues in the Italian film industry, and even the man’s daughters to help…
The Sign of the Cross Blu-ray review
The Sign of the Cross is a pre-code biblical film from iconic director Cecil B. DeMille, the man behind some of the greatest classic films in cinema including Reap the Wild Wind, Samson and Delilah and The Ten Commandments. This picture stars three of the best performers in cinema, Fredric March (Dr. Jekyll and Mr….
The Eleventh Commandment Blu-ray review
Paul Leder, a director responsible for some seriously so bad its good schlock films on his resume including A*P*E and I Dismember Mama and a few mediocre films such as My Friends Need Killing is back it again with another average thriller called The Eleventh Commandment. This yarn is about Robert Knight (Bernard White, The…
She Shoulda Said ‘No’ & The Devil’s Sleep Blu-ray review
Kino Lorber taps into the Something Weird Video vaults once again as they have released a pair of 1949 exploitation films on Blu-ray. She Should’a Said “No” aka Wild Weed and The Devils Sleep. These two films are what is included in Volume 6 of the Forbidden Fruit series. Both films are a throwback to…
The Eagle and the Hawk Blu-ray review
Screen legends Frederic March, Cary Grant and Carole Lombard team-up in the 1933 World War I thriller The Eagle and the Hawk. This film took place just before Grant and Lombard’s careers would rise to stardom, while Fredric March had already reached new heights thanks to his roles in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and…
Backlash Blu-ray Review
Kino Lorber continues to explore the Western genre with its recent Blu-ray release of the 1956 film Backlash. Directed by John Sturges, Backlash is a vengeance story, but with a few twists along the way. Jim Slater (legendary actor Richard Widmark, Madigan, Kiss of Death) is out looking for the lone survivor of an Apache…
The Naughty Victorians Blu-ray
The Naughty Victorians is an erotic tale set in the Victorian era featuring Beerbohm Tree. In this film, society man Jack (Tree) delights in having sex with women that are tied up in various ways, and has built a home full of contraptions for various forms of bondage sex. His first “victim” is his fiancé…
Breezy Blu-ray review
Breezy is an American romance drama from 1973 and is legendary Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood’s third feature as a director. His previous films where he served as a director were Play Misty for Me and High Plains Drifter. With this film he leaves thrillers and Westerns behind for love. Breezy is the story of a…
Blu-ray Review – The Lady Kills/Pervertissima (Mondo Macabro)
Back in the days of DVD when I first started collecting Mondo Macabro discs they helped introduce me to some wild and worldly cinema. One of the first 10 or so discs I bought based on title alone was The Sadist with Red Teeth, by director Jean-Louis van Belle. It has been a decade if…
Blu-ray Review – Weathering With You (Shout! Factory/G Kids)
When I saw Your Name about 4 years ago it introduced me to the cinema of Makoto Shinkai. The experience blew my mind at the time, and I had gone back to see some of his earlier work to continue the cinematic journey that I had begun with Your Name, and found myself enjoying each…