Rinko (Asuka Kurosawa) is a phone counselor at a suicide prevention hotline, and married to Shigehiko, a cleanliness obsessed salaryman who tends to spend a lot of time away from the apartment, so much so that he and Rinko are more like roommates than a married couple. That being said their relationship on the surface…
Blu-ray Review: A THOUSAND AND ONE EROTIC NIGHTS/ A THOUSAND AND ONE EROTIC NIGHTS 2: THE FORBIDDEN TALES (Vinegar Syndrome)
After discovering his wife is cheating on him, The Sultan (John Leslie) requests a wild night with a concubine named Scheherezade (Annette Haven) to forget his troubles. The only problem is afterward the poor woman is set to be killed. So in an effort to spare her life, she tells the Sultan a series of…
Blu-ray Review: My Son (Cohen)
Julien (Guillaume Canet) is called back to hometown for a family crisis. His 7-year-old son has gone missing during a camping weekend. The police first think it’s a simple case of a runaway, but Julien has his doubts. His ex-wife (Melanie Laurent) tells him that she is pregnant with another man’s baby and that maybe…
Blu-ray Review: Legend of the Demon Cat (Well Go USA)
Strange happenings start when a mysterious talking black cat show up to the Imperial Court. The whole kingdom gets shaken up when the wife of a General is suddenly possessed by an ancient demon that is hellbent on revenge. But an eccentric duo of a Japanese Monk, with a fondness for exorcisms, and an oddball…
Blu-ray Review: First Love (Well Go USA)
A successful young boxer named Leo (Masataka Kubota) discovers that he may be terminally ill with a brain tumor. His night soon gets worse when he saves a screaming woman and knocks out her attacker. But this is the first in a downward spiral of mayhem. First, the woman is actually a young hooker who…
Blu-ray Review: 10th Victim, The (Blue Underground)
I have been a fan of Marcello Mastroianni since I first saw 8 1/2 in film school. That first viewing made that film one of my top 10 favorite films of all time, and Marcello one of the greatest actors of the ’60s in my eyes. That being said I never fully explored his filmography,…
Blu-ray Review: The Witch Subversion (Well Go USA)
After a brutal massacre at a top-secret testing facility, a young girl named Ja-Yoon (Kim Da-Mi) escapes in the nearby woods. She finally reaches a farmhouse with a friendly older couple. Life seems peaceful for ten years. But Ja-Yoon’s adopted parents are facing hard times. She decides to try to raise money for the family…
Blu-ray Review: Sore Losers, The (Big Broad Guerrilla Monster)
An alien being known to humans as Blackie (Jack Yarber), returns to earth after a failed attempt to kill 12 beatniks in the 1950s. Instead, he was only able to kill nine and hide their bodies in the woods behind a Drive-In theater. He blames his failure on the location of his landing, The deep…
Satanico Pandemonium (Mondo Macabro)
I first heard of Mondo Macabro as a DVD releasing entity through an ad advertising an upcoming DVD release of The Girl Slaves of Morgana Le Fay in either Rue Morgue or Fangoria. I found the ad enticing, and of course, ordered it, and 2 other titles from the label Alucarda, and Satanico Pandemonium. This…
Forgotten Gialli Vol. 1 (Vinegar Syndrome)
If there is one type of film that I find myself obsessing over, and going back to year in, and year out, it is the giallo. Send me a giallo that I haven’t seen, and I guarantee it will be in my Blu-ray player that night. So needless to say when Vinegar Syndrome’s Blu-ray release…