Gakuen (Tsutomu Yamazaki) is a teacher and botanist who travels alone through the wilds of rural Japan, eventually stumbling across a drought-stricken village so desperate for water that breast milk is used as a substitution. He meets in this village an old friend, Akira (Go Kato), who is married to a mysterious woman named Yuri…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
Cheeky! [Cult Epics] 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Review
Carla (Yuliya Mayarchuk) is out looking for an apartment to rent in London with her boyfriend Matteo (Jarno Berardi). She meets a sexy real estate agent named Moira (Francesca Nunzi) who is willing to rent Carla an apartment in exchange for certain…favors… Meanwhile Matteo discovers some old letters and pictures that Carla had kept from…
Night of the Blood Beast/Attack of the Giant Leeches Blu-ray review
Film Masters has once again gone into the Corman vaults for a highly anticipated pair of classic B-movies in a must own double feature. The latest Blu-ray presentation has a couple of late-night creature feature classics in Night of the Blood Beast and Attack of the Giant Leeches that were produced by Roger and Gene…
Criminally Insane/Satan’s Black Wedding [Vinegar Syndrome] Blu-ray Review
Directed by Nick Millard This Vinegar Syndrome disc includes two movies directed by Nick Millard. They work well as a double feature since both films clock in at just over an hour. Nick Millard started out in the film business making adult movies and then transitioned to horror films with the two films in this…
Killers: Unrated Director’s Cut [Synapse Films] Blu-ray Review
Notorious killers the James Boys, Odessa (Dave Larson) and Kyle (David Gunn), who murdered their parents in cold blood, have escaped from San Quentin and find themselves on the run from a nationwide manhunt in a turbulent thunderstorm. They decide to seek shelter in a random suburban household, taking hostage the ‘gee golly’ All-American nuclear…