When I was a teenager I would buy every issue of Fangoria I could get my hands on. In almost every issue throughout the 90’s there were ads for Chaos! Comics and their characters like Purgatori, Chastity, Evil Ernie, and of course, Lady Death! Being a horror-fanboy-metalhead, I ended up eating Chaos’ unique brand of…
Blu-ray Review – A Certain Scientific Accelerator (Funimation)
When A Certain Scientific Accelerator hit my mailbox, I was unaware of this entry in the Index saga. So needless to say I had to squeeze in the time to watch it being a fan of the entries in the series I have seen so far. This series follows the antagonist of the prior entries…
Blu-ray Review – Memorial Valley Massacre (Vinegar Syndrome)
I have recently in the last 2-3 years experience a rebirth in my love for slasher films. As a kid it seemed like horror was basically ALL slasher films, and so once I started finding weirder, wilder, and more violent thing I started kind of pushing against them. Now, I sort of kind of embrace…
Blu-ray Review – Zombie 5 – Killing Birds (Vinegar Syndrome)
When I first got into Italian and European horror in the late 90’s, I began grabbing any and all titles I could. If It was Argento, Bava, Fulci, Deodato, Martino I felt I was in good hands. As I began to wade deeper into the unknown Euro-waters I began to hit proverbial landmines. One of…
The Caller (Vinegar Syndrome) Blu-ray Review
While she’s preparing for a dinner date, a woman (Madolyn Smith Osborne) staying in a secluded cabin gets an unexpected visit from a man (Malcolm McDowell) claiming to be a stranded motorist. Their conversation turns from small talk to interrogations as both of these people appear to be hiding something. Is the man a traveling…
Blu-ray Review – The Complete Films of Agnes Varda (Criterion)
When I first became a true cinephile almost 20 years ago, one of the first areas I began to explore was the French New Wave. I was fascinated by a group of film critics and writers who transitioned to some of the most impactful directors in the history of the medium. One of my favorites…
Blu-ray Review – Beautiful Bones Sakurako’s Investigation (Sentai Filmworks)
OK, I love a nice atmospheric mystery series and Sentai Filmworks have just released one in the form of Beautiful Bones: Sakurako’s Investigations based on the light novel series by Shiori Ota. The series is 12 episodes long, and is compromised of a series of individual short mystery stories, and also a series of 2-parters….
Aenigma (Severin) Blu-ray Review
A bunch of stuck up jerks at a private school decide to play a cruel prank on Kathy (Milijana Zirojevic), the cleaning lady’s daughter and least popular girl among the student body. They set her up on a date with a hunk and then humiliate her as soon as she lets her guard down. It…
Mikey (MVD) Blu-ray Review
11-year-old Mikey (Brian Bonsall) seems like the most adoptable orphan in the world. He’s smart, he’s cute, and will look good on next year’s family Christmas card. There’s just one little problem with Mikey. If he doesn’t get his way, he will go on a murderous rampage, make it look like an accident, and then…
Fulci for Fake Blu-ray Review
Actor Sandro Bitetto is hired to play Italian horror director Lucio Fulci in a film about his life. The problem is that he doesn’t know jack squat about the “Godfather of Gore”. So, he goes around interviewing Fulci movie experts, his former colleagues in the Italian film industry, and even the man’s daughters to help…