Director Michael Curtiz, the man responsible for directing some of the arguably best classic films in cinema including Casablanca, Mildred Pierce, and Angels with Dirty Faces, dabbled a little into the classic horror film genre in the early thirties. Horror themed movies on his resume which consist of Doctor X, Mystery of the Wax Museum…
Dark Night of the Scarecrow 1 & 2 [VCI] 4K Blu ray review
Back in the day, made for TV movies were considered low-budget, trash movies. They usually had subpar actors and poor direction. Dark Night of the Scarecrow was one of the first made-for-TV movies that broke out of that stigma. It premiered on CBS in 1981 and was popular enough that they re-broadcast it in 1985….
Demons 2 [Synapse Films] 4K Blu ray review
Demons 2 is an Italian horror movie by returning director Lamberto Bava with a producer credit from the famous Dario Argento. I recently reviewed Demons and admitted to having previously watched it. As much as I enjoyed it, I never got around to watching the sequel. So, the 4K release by Synapse Films is my…
The Thin Man Collection Blu-ray
Created by Dashell Hammett, the Thin Man is a series of mystery-comedy movies featuring private detective Nick Charles and his wife Nora. Screen legends William Powell and Myrna Loy played the roles Nick and Nora Charles to perfection and starred in all six Thin Man movies. Of the thirteen films they did together, six of…
Family (2017) [Indiepix] DVD Review
Lily Brooke (Veronica Kedar) frantically arrives at her therapist’s house one evening demanding a session. The therapist is out but her bitchy teenage daughter Talia (Tommy Baremboem) is there and is willing to listen albeit in as judgmental a way as possible. Well, Lily needs someone to listen to her family problems, and Talia will…
The Convent [Synapse] 4K UHD Blu-ray Review
It’s 1960 and we watch as a catholic school girl named Christine walks into a nunnery, takes a swig of whiskey and proceeds to kill the shit out of every nun in the place, smashing them with a baseball bat, covering them in gasoline and setting them on fire and blasting them apart using a…
The Hitcher UHD review (Warner Brothers)
Robert Harmon’s The Hitcher is an immensely popular horror thriller that fans had been clamoring a Blu-ray release for many years. Fans of the film have finally had their requests met. Not only has it been finally released domestically on Blu-ray for the first time, but also now is available on 4K UHD. Warner Brothers…
Blackout (2023) [Dark Sky Selects] Blu-ray Review
Painter Charley Barrett (Alex Hurt) has been having these blackouts lately and waking up in the woods covered in blood. It’s just one more thing to worry about in addition to his father having recently died. Plus the town he grew up in is being bought out by a greedy capitalist who thinks he owns…
Demons [Synapse Films] 4K UHD Blu-ray Review
Directed by Lamberto Bava Demons is an Italian horror movie by Lamberto Bava with a producer credit from the famous Dario Argento. In full transparency, I have seen this movie before. So the 4K release by Synapse Films is not my first exposure to the film. Picking up my copy, I noticed that the packaging…
The Million Eyes of Sumuru [Blue Underground] 4K UHD Blu-ray Review
Like the Christopher Lee-starring Fu Manchu films that Harry Alan Towers produced concurrently in the ’60s, The Million Eyes of Sumuru features a character torn from the pages of the novels of Sax Rohmer. Sumuru (Goldfinger Bond girl Shirley Eaton) is a dastardly yet sexy mastermind who is hell bent on world domination by systematically…
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