TROLL 2 (1990) started life as another latter-day Italian horror film with a special twist. It was a vegetarian spoofing nightmare filmed in the US with American actors. It was a common practice, but somehow the movie found new life on VHS as a notorious “so bad it’s good” movie in the same vein as…
Bloodlust (Mondo Macabro) Blu-ray Review
After suffering years of abuse by his father, a young deaf accountant starts to discover his love of the color red. This soon turns into an impulse for blood and recreating cuts and wounds. Before long he is breaking into grave sites and robbing corpses of random body parts. But there may be hope for him as he falls in love…
Grizzly (88 Films) Blu-ray Review
Park ranger Michael Kelly (Christopher George) is proud of the National park he oversees. The park is untouched and for looks exactly the way it did when it was inhabited by Native Americans. But as the camping season is heading to a close, the park is suddenly menaced by a wild grizzly. One that is not park of the forest’s natural bear population. As campers and rangers get picked off one…
Rats: Night of Terror (88 Films) Blu-ray Review
In the post-apocalyptic future, mankind has started to live underground until a group of bikers try to start fresh. They soon discover an abandoned building with all of the riches of the past. Like Sugar and flower. Their victory is soon crushed when they run into a horde of flesh hungry rats. RATS is another healthy dose of movie cheese from Italian exploitation director…
The Woman in the Window (Eureka! Masters of Cinema) Blu-ray Review
With his wife and two kids away for a Summer vacation, Psychology Professor Dr. Wanley (Edward G. Robinson) is left all alone to enjoy his work. But his friends can’t help but poke fun at his lack of a sense of adventure. After leaving the gentleman’s club late one evening, He stops to look at…
Geronimo (Twilight Time) Blu-ray Review
Lt. Britton Davis (Matt Damon) tells the story about how he joined the hunt to stop the Apache chief Geronimo (Wes Studi). As the US soldiers get closer to the man known as Geronimo, they soon realize how wrong this world is. Walter Hill is one of the great tough-guy directors. Despite some hiccups like…
Zombie Island Massacre (Vinegar Syndrome) Blu-ray Review
A Caribbean tourist company brings a bunch of Americans to a mysterious island to see a top-secret voodoo ceremony. It seems like a goofy prank at first, but soon it becomes clear that there are real voodoo zombies hiding in the nearby forest. When their tour bus gets stuck in the mud, the tourists soon…
Godzilla (1954) (Criterion Collection) Blu-ray Review
The first time I saw Godzilla was on a mid-afternoon screening on a local horror show in New Jersey as a child. I couldn’t have been older than 6-7, the quality couldn’t have been great, all I can remember is that it made an impact. When that giant green lizard was on screen my mind…
Blu-ray Review – Fantastic Planet (Criterion)
Fantastic Planet is not so much a character driven film, but a species driven one. In this case we have 2 fictional species the humanesque Om’s, and the giant blue Draags. Both share space on a planet, though share is probably not the appropriate term as the Draags due to their massive size and intellectual…
Cobra Woman Blu ray review
Jon Hall, who starred in The Invisible Agent, and The Invisible Man’s Revenge for Universal, is visible here starring as Ramu in the 1944 adventure film, Cobra Woman. The key plot for this story is Ramu’s fiancée Tollea(Maria Montez) has been kidnaped, and along with his friend Kado (Sabu) venture off to a pacific island…