The 1940 film, The Ghost Breakers is one of a couple of horror comedies from Universal studios that paired together stars Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard. The other film was The Cat and the Canary made a year earlier. The Ghost Breakers is the third version of this film. The previous offerings, entitled The Ghost…
Primitives Blu-ray review
Primitives, also known as Savage Terror and Death Cry of the Cannibals (this title is used in the film’s opening) is an Indonesian film based on Italian styles and versions cannibal films. In fact, based on some scenes, one would think Primitives was inspired by them. The story is about three anthropology students Robert…
The Ape Blu-ray review
When we think of Boris Karloff, we immediately think of his roles as the Frankenstein monster and other timeless horror classics he starred in over four decades. But not everything Boris Karloff acted in was an instant classic; he was in his fair share of cinematic duds. One such film came from the low-budget B-movie…
The Beast Must Die (Severin) Blu-ray Review
A millionaire/lunatic hunter named Tom Newcliffe (Calvin Lockhart) has pretty much blown entire his fortune installing a state-of-the-art security system on his massive estate. He didn’t do this because he fears intruders, no no, he wants intruders, but especially ones of the lycanthrope variety. One could blame this on harmless eccentricity except Newcliffe has invited…
Blu-ray Review – Little Monsters – Vestron Video
As a kid I loved horror movies, but wasn’t always given access to them. Luckily, I grew up in the 80’s so there were a number of films that were “children’s” films that at least offered up the scares in family friendly ways. Fred Dekker’s iconic Monster Squad being the most obvious, alongside Tim Burton’s…
Blu-ray Review – Massacre in Dinosaur Valley – Severin Films
This week I had a conversation with someone about European horror over a Zoom meeting. Behind me is a mini-poster of Horror of the Zombies (aka Amando de Ossorio’s The Ghost Galleon), and it was inquired as to what that film was. It was then asked what the differences were between European and American horror….
Blu-ray Review – Dr. Stone (Funimation)
OK, so sometimes I’ll get a series in the mail with no expectations pop it in and just watch. I like these, because honestly it offers some amount of surprise, sometimes good, sometimes bad. In the case of Dr. Stone I hadn’t even heard of the show, and by the end of Season 1’s first…
Blu-ray Review – Cruel Jaws (Severin Films)
On the last Saturday of every month for the last 6 years Richard Glenn Schmidt of DoomedMoviethon and myself (among others) get together to live Tweet a movie, sometimes more than 1. Literally, last night (9/26/20) was one of those nights. We did a double feature of Bruno Mattei’s Italian Schlock classics Robowar and Shocking…
Blu-ray Review – The Ones Within – Complete Series (Funimation)
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…