Back in the days of DVD when I first started collecting Mondo Macabro discs they helped introduce me to some wild and worldly cinema. One of the first 10 or so discs I bought based on title alone was The Sadist with Red Teeth, by director Jean-Louis van Belle. It has been a decade if…
Blu-ray Review – Weathering With You (Shout! Factory/G Kids)
When I saw Your Name about 4 years ago it introduced me to the cinema of Makoto Shinkai. The experience blew my mind at the time, and I had gone back to see some of his earlier work to continue the cinematic journey that I had begun with Your Name, and found myself enjoying each…
Blu-ray Review – Run With the Wind – Complete Collection (Sentai Filmworks)
I am not athletic by nature, and to double down a bit I really really hate sports. Watching them, playing them, the whole she-bang. Running has always been a task for me, I remember in middle school and high school in gym classes we’d have to run “the mile”, and my friends and I would…
Blu-ray Review – American Rickshaw (Cauldron)
College student Scott Edwads (Mitchell Gaylord) is trying to make ends meet by covering his injured best bud Daniel’s (Glenn Maska) shift as a rickshaw driver while his broken leg heals. One rainy day, he helps a kindly Chinese woman named Madame Luna (Michi Kobi) and her Siamese cat get from the bus stop to…
Blu-ray Review – Thirteen Ghosts (Scream Factory)
Millionaire Cyrus Kriticos (F. Murray Abraham) is obsessed with the afterlife. He has alienated his family and friends -though it’s doubtful that he had any friends because he’s such a dickbagel- and has supposedly squandered his fortune hunting and capturing ghosts. He has enlisted the help of psychic medium Dennis Rafkin (Matthew Lillard) to help…
Blu-ray Review – Abrakadabra (Cauldron)
As a child, Lorenzo Manzini (Germán Baudino) witnessed the accidental death of his magician father during a magic trick where he was supposed to catch a bullet. Oh, he caught the bullet all right! Now a grownup magician himself, Lorenzo is preparing his illusions for a big magic show at a swanky theater. Unfortunately, he…
Blu-ray Review Maid Sama! Complete Collection (Sentai Filmworks)
I’m going to admit a strike of confusing when this Blu-ray hit my mailbox. I feel I reviewed the complete Maid Sama! Years ago, and as the original ECAV is gone I couldn’t check, but then I doubled back to see if this was a reboot, second season, or something else. As it stands it…
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…
The Complete Lenzi/Baker Giallo Collection (Severin Films)
Severin Films seems determined to put out the top tier of home video releases in 2020. In May they released an Al Adamson Collection so comprehensive I think Al himself would have been shocked at the loving treatment he received. Now in July we have gotten the long awaited Complete Lenzi/Baker Giallo Collection! This collection…
Blu-ray Review – Satan’s Slave (Severin Films)
If there is one takeaway from all the Indonesian horror and fantasy films I have watched over the years it is basically black magic is bad news. This month’s Severin Film’s release Satans’s Slave (Pengabdi Setan) really hammers that point home. The film follows Tomi, who has just experienced the death of his Mother. After…