Miles Grissom (Clark Freeman) is terrified of dying and issues a challenge that he will pay $30,000 to anyone who can offer definitive proof of the afterlife. Mike’s mother (Annette O’ Toole), concerned about her son’s mental well-being, helps pore through the large volume of letters, e-mails and videos Mike receives from people claiming they…
Peeping Tom [Criterion] 4K UHD Blu-ray Review
Mark Lewis (played amazingly well by Carl Boehm) is a focus puller at a film studio who, as a side gig, also takes provocative photos of women for money. The ladies find Mark cute but a bit aloof, not realizing that he holds a dark secret rooted in his childhood. Mark is a murderer of…
Hey Folks! It’s the Intermission Time Video Party! [AGFA] Blu-ray Review
Ah… Can you smell that buttery stale popcorn? Look at all those boxes of brightly-colored, tooth-rotting candy confections! Put down your life savings to buy soda by the bucket! That’s right… We’re going to the movies. As you walk into the auditorium, you hear the familiar skrriitch, skrriiitch of the bottom of your shoes as…
Frivolous Lola [Cult Epics] 4K Blu-Ray Review
Lola (or Monella in the original Italian) is a carefree, impish girl who wants to “seal the deal” with her fiancé Masetto, a local baker who insists on waiting until their wedding night before consummating the marriage. But Lola wants to test his sexual prowess before being saddled to him forever. This leaves Lola sexually…
Deathdream [Blue Underground] 4K UHD Blu-ray Review
It’s a cold, sad night for the Brooks family. Christine (Lynn Carlin) wants nothing more than for her son Andy (Richard Backus) to come home from Vietnam and implores the heavens to bring him back. Unfortunately, soon the family receives a letter than Andy has been killed in Vietnam. The thing is, Andy does come…
Common Law Wife and Jennie Wife/Child Blu-rat review
Exploitation film fans will get a kick out this Blu-ray release from Film Masters. Entitled the “Backwoods Double-Feature”, this has a pair of “hicksploitation” (an exploitation film from the South) films in Common Law Wife and Jennie Wife/Child, which have been restored in 4K! Common Law Wife has a wealthy old coot named Shugfoot Rainey…
Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms [Well Go USA] Blu-ray Review
Yin Zhou (Kris Phillips) takes the throne of the Shang dynasty due to carefully crafted sinister machinations and betrayal and teams up with an evil fox spirit in the guise of the daughter of a former enemy to ensure his control is unchallenged. Meanwhile venerated monk Jian Ziya is given a scroll by the gods…
Cathy’s Curse [Severin] 4K UHD Blu-ray Review
Poor George… After his mom leaves his dad, she takes him with her and leaves his dad and little sister behind, and he later finds out that his dad and sister were killed in a terrible car accident. We then flash forward about 30 years. George is now married to a mentally unwell woman and…
Shinobi [Radiance Films] Blu-ray Box Set Review
In Shinobi: Band of Assassins, Goemon Ishikawa (Ichikawa Raizo) is a promising young pupil who is shown particular favor by shadowy ninja clan master Sandayu (Yunosuke Ito). Sandayu secretly sets up Goemon in a scheme to push him to assassinate the Japanese warlord Ode Nobunaga who is trying to consolidate power amidst the feuding territories….
LOLA [Severin Films] Blu-ray Review
Thomasina (“Thom”) and Martha (“Mars”) are orphaned sisters living in a remote house in the English countryside in 1941. Thom has invented a revolutionary invention nicknamed “Lola” which is able to receive video and audio transmissions from the future. At first, they just use it to listen to rock and roll innovations in the years…