Daughters of Darkness is one of many lesbian vampire films from the early 70’s. It is also one of the best films of that particular sub-genre. Daughters of Darkness, unlike other films of the era, takes a less cliched approach to vampire mythology, and as such has more in common with a film such…
UHD Review – Full Metal Jacket (Warner Brothers)
Full Metal Jacket has always been a decisive movie in Stanley Kubrick’s filmography. There has been never a dispute that the opening half of the film is a stone cold cinema classic with it’s view trained on a group of Marines in brutal basic training. The 2nd half of the film sees the results of…
UHD Review – Ghost in the Shell (Anime, 1995, Lionsgate)
Ghost in the Shell is a film I’ve lived with for a long time. The film was released originally in 1995, and SOMETIME in the late 1990’s I saw it for the very first time on VHS. I immediately fell for it’s hyperactive, cyber-sci-fi charms, and amazing action, coupled with a style of animation that…
UHD Review – New York Ripper (Blue Underground)
The late great horror journalist Chas Balun wrote a small booklet in honor of Lucio Fulci shortly after the maestro’s death in 1996. It was titled Beyond the Gates, and is well worth checking out if you are a Fulci fanatic, as I am. It is fairly short, and not very in depth, but it…
UHD Review – House by the Cemetery (Blue Underground)
House by the Cemetery is an insanely important film for me. I still remember buying Zombie from a Suncoast Video (remember those)? I would use websites like House of Horrors, and magazines like Fangoria to get any information I could on Italian horror, but sometimes it was just the mere act of stumbling on to…
UHD Review – The Goonies – Warner Brothers
As a kid my first passion was my NES. I would always ask for new games for Christmas and birthdays, and rent them when I could. One game I became obsessed with even though as a kid I could never figure it out was “The Goonies II”. I found out through a friend it was…
UHD Review – Beetlejuice – Warner Brothers
Beetlejuice in spite of its popularity is not a film I got around to watching as a kid. I saw it in bits and pieces on TV , but never the whole film until last year, and even then I was unimpressed. I did watch the cartoon quite a bit, but now familiar with the…