The Vietnam War is over but American soldiers have left a massive clutch of weapons in enemy territory. Lt. Lam (Ching-Ying Lam) along with the criminal Tung (Sammo Hung) is tasked with leading a ragtag group of Asian prisoners into Vietnam to destroy the weapons before the Vietcong can get their mitts on them. In…
Dario Argento’s Deep Cuts [Severin Films] Blu-ray Review
At various points in his illustrious career, celebrated Italian horror maestro Dario Argento took his talents to the small screen, beaming certified Argento productions into the homes of millions of viewers complete with his distinct brand of macabre menace. In 1973, he produced an anthology miniseries called Door Into Darkness which featured four episodes of…
Bones and All [Shout Factory] 4K UHD Review
Maren (Taylor Russell) is a detached teen girl whose father seems to move them from town to town a great deal, preventing her from making long-term relationships. We discover why when she is invited to a sleepover and bites off the finger of a girl trying to befriend her. It turns out that she possesses…
Blood-a-Rama Triple Frightmare 2 [AGFA + Something Weird] Blu-ray review
The triple feature, ahem, sorry. I meant to say triple frightmare is comprise of three movies contained in this release and are all very short, one under thirty minutes and two around an hour. The run time is padded a little with AGFA’s always entertaining drive-in mode where they intersperse clips and trailers from old…
2020 Texas Gladiators [Severin Films] 4K UHD Review
It’s the end of the world in Texas. Nisus (Al Cliver) along with the rest of his gang including Jab (Harrison Muller), Halakron (Peter Hooten), Red Wolfe (Hal Yamanouchi) and Catch Dog (Daniel Stephen) travel around trying to salvage what’s left of this hellhole by helping others (kind of…eventually). After Catch Dog attempts to rape…
The Howling 2: Your Sister Is a Werewolf [Vinegar Syndrome] 4k/Blu-ray review
In 1981, The Howling and An American Werewolf in London brought werewolves back into the zeitgeist and studios were seeing dollar signs. The Howling was a Joe Dante film that was a enough of a success to land him the gig directing Gremlins. Obviously, The Howling needed a sequel. Enter Australian filmmaker, Philipe Mora. What…
The Block Island Sound [Synapse Films] 4K UHD Review
Tom Lynch (Neville Archambault) is a fisherman that lives on the Block Island Sound with his son Harry (Chris Sheffield). Gradually Tom starts behaving very strangely, taking the boat out in the middle of night and not remembering what was happening as well as other erratic and unstable shifts of mood. Meanwhile, hundreds of dead…
Hard Wood: The Adult Features of Ed Wood [Severin] Blu-Ray Review
Ed Wood is a director who needs no introduction, but despite being the schlock visionary of such “films” as Plan 9 from Outer Space and Bride of the Monster, Wood’s later years were plagued with financial difficulties, alcoholism and depression which dampened his creativity, forcing him to mostly get by on writing porno novels. In…
Poverty Row Classics – King of the Zombies / Miss V from Moscow Blu-ray review
VCI Entertainment has released a Blu-ray with a pair of low-budget grade Z movies, King of the Zombies and Miss V from Moscow as part of a ‘Poverty Row Collection’. I know there are plenty of fans, including myself that love these types of pictures, and are happy to see them get a little Blu-ray…
Last Shadow at First Light [Indiepix] DVD Review
Sixteen-year-old Ami (Mihaya Shirata) is a Singaporean teen haunted by the echoes of the mysterious disappearance of her mother in the wake of the cataclysmic tsunami that tore through eastern Asia in 2011. Her dreams torment her leading her to seek answers from her father who initially acts very cagey and emotionally shut down. He…