Antiviral (2012) was a sci-fi/horror film directed by Brandon Cronenberg, the son of famous body-horror director, David Cronenberg. Severin released it as a two-disc set on 4k and Blu-ray. The movie has an interesting premise. In the near future, celebrity obsession has reached a level where people are paying for celebrity infections. There is an…
Delicatessen [Severin] 4K/Blu-ray Release
I watched Delicatessen many years ago and loved it. When I saw the 4K/Blu-ray two-disc set released by Severin, I was excited to re-watch it. The first thing I noticed were the innovative opening credits. The objects that the names appear on represent the role they had on the film. For example, the music credit…
Godzilla vs. Biollante UHD 4K review
Being a lifelong Godzilla fan, writing about Godzilla movies is especially special to me as he is my favorite pop culture character. Reflecting about Godzilla 1985(the title for the USA cut of the film) and seeing Godzilla fall into Mount Mihara to his apparent death was really a heartbreaker for myself and I am sure…
Venom [Blue Underground] 4K UHD Review
The sleek and sinister Jacmel (Klaus Kinski) has conspired with limo driver Dave (Oliver Reed) and maid Louise (Susan George) to kidnap young Philip (Lance Holcomb), the son of a wealthy family. When Philip’s mother heads out of town, leaving him in the care of his famous hunter grandfather Howard (Sterling Hayden), the criminals put…
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…
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 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…
The Shape of Water [Criterion Collection] 4K UHD Blu-Ray Review
Elisa (Sally Hawkins) is a mute cleaning woman at a top secret government facility who becomes fascinated with a humanoid amphibian creature (Doug Jones) that is being held captive and tormented by the sadistic Richard Strickland (Michael Shannon). When her feelings of fascination grow into something more akin to love, Elisa, with the help of…
EuroCultAV Holiday Gift Guide 2024! – Part 1 – Blu-ray and UHD
Contributions from the staff of EuroCultAV including Ben Tucker, Scott MacDonald, David Steigman, and Richard Glenn Schmidt. That oh-so-frosty time of year has arrived once again when we reflect back on what a bountiful crop of splendid releases that have been put out by all the stellar boutique media labels out there and recommend some…
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….