Shout! Factory sure have the market covered on unearthing notable pieces of obscure pop culture, and lavishing them with quality editions on DVD and Blu-ray. They have put out excellent editions of everything from Mystery Science Theater 3000 to The Howling, and if that wasn’t enough have the Nick at Nite crowd covered with wonderful…
Mystery Science Theater 3000 Vol. XIX (Shout! Factory) DVD Review
I have been a fan of MST3K from the moment I first saw it on Comedy Central in the mid-90’s. My friends and I were used to watching bad movies on shows like USA Up All Night, but never before had we seen a show that built itself around cheesy/bad movies. On top of that…
MST3K: Manos The Hands of Fate (Shout! Factory) DVD Review
Somewhere in rural Texas a vacationing family take a wrong turn and end up staying the night at a menacing lodge under the careful watch of the creepy Torgo (John Reynolds), who serves at the best of the Master (Tom Neyman), the leader of a cult that worships a vengeful spirit known only as Manos….
MST3K Vs Gamera (Shout! Factory) DVD Review
About 2 years ago when I started the site I did an interview with Kevin Murphy for one of the first MST3K releases reviewed for ECAV. I wouldn’t suggest looking for it, it never got posted, as the audio was too terrible to post in .mp3 format, and I could barely hear it myself…
Anticipation & Flesh Pond (Vinegar Syndrome) DVD Review
“Flesh Pond” (0.5/5) Two men escape from jail and push their way into an isolated swingers club. They’re just in time before the participants start ravaging each other and instead of allowing the swingers to choose their partners, the escapees order the swinging patrons around, forcing their sexual hobbies on each other at gunpoint. While…
Arena (Sony) DVD Review
Denver firefighter David Lord (Kellan Lutz) has the ideal life: a good job, his beautiful wife Lori (Nina Dobrev), and best of all he’s about to become a father. But one sunny afternoon a devastating car accident takes all that away. Racked with grief David flees to Acapulco to drown his sorrows in booze. Enticed…
Astonishing X-Men: Gifted (Motion Comic) (Shout! Factory) DVD Review
Joss Whedon, as long as you’ve heard of him, is someone you statistically love or loathe. Trust me, I’ve done the research. You can go to just about any forum related to his medium, drop his name, and derail a thread. Just like that. Snap your fingers for instant trolling. The shit-storm cometh. Some will…
An Angel for Satan & The Long Hair of Death (Midnight Choir) DVD Review
It seems that Midnight Choir is out to impress horror fans with their debut releases. This Barbara Steele double feature contains two of her more obscure Italian films An Angel for Satan and the Long Hair of Death. Prior to this release I had only heard of, but had not seen Long Hair of Death,…
All Good Things (Magnolia) DVD Review
The strange-but-true case of the disappearance of Katherine Durst, the wife of an emotionally unstable heir to a New York real estate dynasty who was long suspected of her murder but never convicted, has provided the inspiration for All Good Things, the first fictional film from documentary filmmaker Andrew Jarecki. Jarecki came to prominence in…
Alucarda (Mondo Macabro) DVD Review
Justine is a young woman whose parents have both recently died. This tragic turn of events has forced her into a convent, where she is put together in a room with Alucarda, another young woman with a tragic past. Alucarda and Justine quickly become friends, and that friendship actually blossoms into something quite a bit…