“Today is a good day to die” is the infamous quote in the opening moments said by star Kiefer Sutherland for the 1990 Joel Schumacher psychological horror film known as Flatliners! Yes, this film is about people who decide to play with their own lives, potentially killing themselves! The story is about five medical students…
Blu-ray Review – Girls Nite Out – Arrow Video
The last Saturday of every month if you have read this website long enough is “Movie Party Crew” night. Every Saturday going on 8 years, we have a hashtag, that you can follow, and either just read along or comment on Twitter at 10 PM EST. It is myself, and Richard of the amazing Doomed…
Blu-ray Review – Lies and Deceit – The Films of Claude Chabrol
Review—Lies and Deceit: Five Films by Claude Chabrol (Arrow Video) Author: Palo Sionoplia Films: Cop au Vin, Inspecteur Lavardin, Madame Bovary, Betty, Torment While Arrow’s first foray into the vast catalogue of Chabrol films focuses on late-career works helmed by the auteur in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the dueling motifs of lies and…
Blu-ray Review – Deadly Games – Arrow Video
After her estranged sister is found murdered, journalist Keegan (Jo Ann Harris) returns to her hometown to find that a lot has changed, especially when it comes how some of its citizens interpret the word “monogamy”. All of her old pals -before they start getting offed by the sadistic killer- have more or less settled…
Blu-ray Review – Sleep – Arrow Video
Mona (Gro Swantje Kohlhof) takes care of her mother Marlene (Sandra Hüller), who has a rare sleeping condition. It causes Marlene to not know whether she’s awake or dreaming, and she wakes up in the middle of the night struggling to breathe. The nightmares always take place at the same hotel and feature three men…
Blu-ray Review – Shock – Arrow Video
Finally, we have Shock on Blu-ray, so now I can start asking about Shock and the filmography of Bava on 4K UHD! Shock is the final film directed by the legendary Italian maestro of the macabre Mario Bava. It was made in 1977, and has a tonally different feel than his prior horror films, though…
Blu-ray Review – Shawscope Volume One – Arrow Video
Classic kung fu films have always struggled to find legitimate release in the U.S., for a short spell in the early 2000’s in the direct period after Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill was released Miramax/The Weinstein Company made a deal with Celestial Pictures/Shaw Brothers to release some of their titles under the Dragon Dynasty banner. At…
Blu-ray Review – Weird Wisconsin – The Bill Rebane Collection
I legitimately enjoy Bill Rebane movies, I saw Monster a Go Go originally when the Somethng Weird DVD release, and yeah, it’s bad, but I found it enjoyable. I was introduced to Rebane’s work sometime as a teenager in the 90’s when a TV screening in the middle of the night showed up the Giant…
Blu-ray Review – Death Screams – Arrow Video
The tranquility of a quiet town (located somewhere in the North Carolinian zone) is shattered when a crazed killer goes on a rampage, slaughtering the teen population. Woops, I kind of wrote myself into a corner with that one sentence plot summary. Damn it! There’s also a lengthy carnival sequence and adult-aged teenagers telling stories…
Vengeance Trails – 4 Classic Westerns (Arrow Video)
This has been a pretty amazing year for box sets, and next on the chopping block is an Arrow Video entry “Vengeance Trails – 4 Classic Westerns”. This box set takes some lesser known western entries, by some better known directors like Lucio Fulci, Antonio Marghetiri, Maurizio Lucido, and Massimo Dallamano, and puts them together…
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