Lost Highway may be the first film I saw that could be considered to cross the boundary of both independent and avant-garde. I remember the first viewing from a tape rented from Hollywood Video I found myself both confused, and bored in equal measure. I guess I was not quite ready for what Mr. Lynch…
UHD Review – The Changeling – Severin
George C. Scott stars as John Russell a composer and professor who moves to Seattle into a huge mansion a few months after the shocking death of his wife and daughter. Unfortunately, this mansion was not the place to go to recover, as it immediately reveals itself to be haunted with loud thumping sounds,…
UHD Review – Drive
In 1997, DRIVE was released direct to video in the US, and in my opinion is one of the best martial arts movies of that decade. Director Steve Wang gave us one of the funnest, and most hard hitting action films of the decade. DRIVE follows Toby, played by Mark Dacascos, a special agent from…
UHD Review – Army of Darkness – Scream Factory
Ashley J. Williams aka Ash (Bruce Williams) is a department store house wares clerk at S-Mart. He went on a vacation with his girlfriend/group of friends to a cabin in the woods, where an archaeologist had been translating an ancient occult text the “Necronomicon”. After Ash reads aloud from the book demonic deadites begin possessing…
UHD Review – Return of the Living Dead – Scream Factory
I was introduced to Return of the Living Dead on an episode of Monstervision with Joe Bob Briggs in the 90’s. On that episode Joe Bob did his usual redneck schtick, and discussed everything from violence to the nudity in the film. The latter of which obviously could not be seen on TNT. He even…
Blu-ray Review – Out of Order – Subkultur
Subkultur Films is making their way into the American market with this UHD/Blu combo of OUT OF ORDER, an incredibly tense and claustrophobic cross between a disaster film and character piece. On a Friday evening, four people find themselves trapped in an elevator. Facing the threat of a weekend trapped in the elevator and limited…
Flatliners (1990 film) UHD review
“Today is a good day to die” is the infamous quote in the opening moments said by star Kiefer Sutherland for the 1990 Joel Schumacher psychological horror film known as Flatliners! Yes, this film is about people who decide to play with their own lives, potentially killing themselves! The story is about five medical students…
UHD Review – Dog Soldiers – Scream Factory
Dog Soldiers is one of the finest werewolf films of the 21st Century, and to be honest could easily squeeze into the pantheon of all time genre best as far as werewolf films are concerned. The werewolf as a cinematic monster is so drastically under utilized unlike it’s cinematic counterparts zombies and vampires, that when…
UHD Review – Cat People – Scream Factory
It will seem that in the last decade we have been in the midst of a remake/reboot trend that simply will not stop. The remakes of our current period are less from visionary directors with a new angle of an established classic, and more about using the title of an established classic as a profit…
UHD Review – Species – Scream Factory
A small girl in a lab base in the desert is being put to sleep. As tensions rise, the girl remarkably breaks away from her holding cell and makes a run for it. It turns out that the girl is an alien human hybrid named SIL, created by man after contacting an alien race. With…