The Blood Island series, directed by Gerardo de Leon and Eddie Romero (save the last film which was directed by Romero solo), is a run of four films all supposedly taking place on the same island, Blood Island, so designated conveniently for its brilliant red sunsets. All four films were shot in the Philippines and…
Cheyenne: The Complete Series Blu-ray review
When the Cheyenne: The Complete Series was announced for a Blu-ray release, a lot of fans rejoiced over the announcement due to its popularity. Because I do like Westerns, I decided to give this seven-year series a spin as I had never watched this television series before. There were a few delays for this Blu-ray…
The Sword and The Claw [AGFA] Blu-ray Release
The Sword and the Claw is a 1975 Turkish film and is the best kind of terrible. The story is simple. A king is overthrown by corrupt noblemen. The prince is born and raised by lions, eventually returning to unseat the usurper. There are plot twists that are so laughable that I can’t believe the…
Springfield Rifle Blu-ray review
Directed by Andre de Toth, who was well-known for his work on the timeless classic House of Wax, and various Noir and Western classics, Springfield Rifle is a feature that stars screen icon Gary Cooper and takes place during the Civil War. But it’s more than just your average Western as the well-renowned directed has…
Side Street Blu-ray review
There’s nothing like a story of a man who steals money so he, his wife and child can have a better life but then feels completely conflicted about it! In Anthony Mann’s Film Noir Side Street is such a film about your average American committing a crime and later regretting it! The movie was shot…
Eating Miss Campbell [Troma] Blu-ray Review
Beth Conner (Lyndsey Craine) is a disaffected outsider goth kid trapped in a nightmare high school where the new principal brought in, Mr. Sawyer (Vito Trigo), is tasked with bringing the out-of-control students in line and comes up with the ludicrous idea of putting on an All You Can Eat Massacre where the winner will…
Mask of Satan [Severin] Blu-ray Review
Davide (Giovanni Guidelli) and his friends (including Mary Sellers, Debora Caprioglio and fellow Italian director Michele Soavi) are skiing in the mountains when they accidentally fall into a crevasse in the snow, finding themselves trapped in some kind of ice cave. Inside this cave, they discover the frozen body of a woman with a strange…
The Carpenter [Vinegar Syndrome] Blu-ray release
The Carpenter, released on Blu-ray by Vinegar Syndrome, looks like a generic 80s slasher film at first glance. My initial reaction based on the opening in a mental asylum was that this is a comedy. There are strange things in the background that made me chuckle or raise my eyebrows. For example, as the main…
Project Silence [Capelight] Blu-Ray Review
When a dense fog causes a massive car pile-up on a bridge, disrupting the bridge’s structural integrity (a helicopter crash definitely doesn’t help things either), Jeong-won (Lee Sun-Kyun) and his daughter find their plans of heading to the airport to catch a flight completely wrecked to say the least. To make matters worse, amid the…
Antiviral [Severin] 4k/Blu-ray Release
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…