The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 American Western film directed by John Sturges (Bad Day at Black Rock, The Great Escape). The film is a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai and is a Western version of that movie. John Sturges’ film is also known for launching the careers of several iconic and legendary Hollywood…
UHD Review – Dragons Forever – 88 Films
Dragons Forever is the final, and possibly the best of the three brothers (Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Yuen Biao), of course best is hard here, and that can change at the drop of a hat. The film has Chan playing a lawyer, who formerly worked on the criminal side of things, working with Sammo…
The Invisible Maniac – 4K/Blu-ray Review (Vinegar Syndrome)
Little Kevin Dornwinkle is caught peeping on a sexy neighbor by his mother and her over reaction to this incident instantly creates a future serial killer. Twenty years later, Kevin has grown up into physicist Dr. Dornwinkle (Noel Peters) whose theories on “molecular reorganization” have given him the reputation of being a bit of a…
UHD Review – Freeway – Vinegar Syndrome
I haven’t seen Freeway since the 1990’s. This film which stars Reese Witherspoon as an illiterate teenager from a really messed up home life, is a fairy tale adaptation. This one, of course, is an adaptation of Red Riding Hood. In this one Witherspoon plays Vanessa, a teenage girl who finds her shitty existence turned…
Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things UHD / Blu-ray review
The 1972 horror flick known as Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things is one of the weirdest zombie movies out there. It’s every bit as chilling as Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead, at least during the last half hour of the movie. The film was directed by Bob Clark (Black…
UHD Review – Lost Highway
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…