I don’t really believe this, but at times I feel that maybe we all are living in a simulation. Coincidences being so on the nose on the regular that it feels like it’s been written to be that way. A few weeks ago the Blu-ray of Africa Salaryman ended up on my doorstep, at the…
Blu-ray Review – Massacre in Dinosaur Valley – Severin Films
This week I had a conversation with someone about European horror over a Zoom meeting. Behind me is a mini-poster of Horror of the Zombies (aka Amando de Ossorio’s The Ghost Galleon), and it was inquired as to what that film was. It was then asked what the differences were between European and American horror….
Blu-ray Review – Cruel Jaws (Severin Films)
On the last Saturday of every month for the last 6 years Richard Glenn Schmidt of DoomedMoviethon and myself (among others) get together to live Tweet a movie, sometimes more than 1. Literally, last night (9/26/20) was one of those nights. We did a double feature of Bruno Mattei’s Italian Schlock classics Robowar and Shocking…
Blu-ray Review – Shivers – Vestron Video
I remember a time when seeing the early works on David Cronenberg was damn near impossible, works like Shivers, Fast Company, even stuff like the Brood and Rabid were difficult to secure in small-town Florida where I was raised. His even earlier more experimental films like Stereo and Crimes of the Future were next to…
Blu-ray Review – Cecilia (Blue Underground)
Cecilia played by Muriel Montosse marries Andre (Franco regular Antonio Maysns) 2 years before out story kicks off. At the beginning their relationship was full of sexual discovery, especially for Cecilia. However, at this point Cecilia finds herself quite bored with her relationship, and her life far away from the city. One day her driver…
Blu-ray Review – Tales from the Darkside – The Movie (Scream Factory)
I can still recall as a kid in the 80’s older kids in my neighborhood talking about the show Tales from the Darkside as if it was scariest thing ever. Considering that we only had one small video store in the neighborhood with a limited and inaccessible horror selection to us (run by my soccer…
Blu-ray Review – Gemini (Mondo Macabro)
I know that the almost legendary Asian film distro Third Window Films has released many of Shinya Tsukamoto’s films to Blu-ray format previously. However, in the last 3 months with the insanely near comprehensive box set by Arrow Video Tsukamoto box set, and now the outstanding Gemini release by the iconic Mondo Macabro it truly…
Blu-ray Review – Is It Wrong to Pick Up Girls In a Dungeon? Season 2 (Sentai Filmworks)
When EuroCultAV got the first series of Is It Wrong to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Many years back (has it really been years, time is weird, and the original version of the site was torn down so I can’t check). Being a tabletop RPG fanatic, I was immediately drawn to the concept of…
Blu-ray Review – Ozone (MakeFlix/Tempe Digital)
When I first started getting into more obscure horror films outside the “Friday the 13th” bandwagon, one of the first films I found was J.R. Bookwalter’s The Dead Next Door. A local video store had a tape, and immediately I fell in love with the film. It looked like a group of friends had got…
Severin Films Mid-Year Sale Reviews (Blu-ray/DVD)
Severin Films have long been a EuroCult fanatics dream label. Their dedication to the cinema of Jess Franco alone should certainly endear fans of EuroCult cinema to the label. This time around the label have unleashed 8 titles for fans to pick up 6 new releases and 2 re-releases. One of which is Blood on…