Film Masters’ fans can once again celebrate as another pair of low-budget sleazy late-night movies have been paired together for their latest incredible Blu-ray release, Door-to Door Maniac (AKA 5 Minutes to Live) and Right Hand of the Devil. Both are obscure films from the sixties that pack a huge punch! Bill Karn’s Door-to-Door Maniac…
Common Law Wife and Jennie Wife/Child Blu-rat review
Exploitation film fans will get a kick out this Blu-ray release from Film Masters. Entitled the “Backwoods Double-Feature”, this has a pair of “hicksploitation” (an exploitation film from the South) films in Common Law Wife and Jennie Wife/Child, which have been restored in 4K! Common Law Wife has a wealthy old coot named Shugfoot Rainey…
The Scavengers [Severin] Blu-Ray Review
The Civil War is over, but Captain Steve Harris (John Bliss of other exploitation films like Chain Gang Women and The Thing with Two Heads) and his band of renegade Confederate soldiers refuse to give up the ghost. Dejected, aimless and looking to raise hell, they invade a small frontier town, bending the locals to…
Confuso e nervoso in una stanza buia: A ’70s Italian Genre Marathon
So I got the notion in my head to watch a genre film every year from 1920 to 2021 this month. While I probably won’t post about all of them, I thought I’d at least publish a couple of decades of my watches for shits ‘n’ giggles. To start it all off, I chose that…
Ingagi Blu-ray review
For those who think the 1933 King Kong was the first film to have a sexual suggestion between a woman and an ape are in for surprise. As it turns out, three years earlier, the film Ingagi explored that idea with an arguably stronger suggestion. Ingagi is a 1930 pre-code documentary style film about an…
Gutter Trash Maestros Presents: Herschell Gordon Lewis
The Gutter Trash Maestro series will be dedicated to focusing on directors who have slummed it in the margins producing flicks often on very low budgets but delivering the goods and delighting audiences despite their limited resources and possible dubious motives. H.G. Lewis came from a background in advertising, having produced marketing materials and commercials for various…
Test Tube Babies /Guilty Parents Blu-ray review
Kino Lorber, in conjunction with Something Weird Video have released their latest Blu-ray in their Forbidden Fruit, the Golden Age of Exploitation Picture Volume 7. In this volume the two films are Test Tube Babies directed by W. Merle Connell, who was responsible for The Devil’s Sleep and Jack Townley’s Guilty Parents, which is one…
She Shoulda Said ‘No’ & The Devil’s Sleep Blu-ray review
Kino Lorber taps into the Something Weird Video vaults once again as they have released a pair of 1949 exploitation films on Blu-ray. She Should’a Said “No” aka Wild Weed and The Devils Sleep. These two films are what is included in Volume 6 of the Forbidden Fruit series. Both films are a throwback to…
Soldier Blue Blu-ray review
Arguably one of the most graphically violent films in the Western genre is the 1970 film Soldier Blue. Directed by Ralph Nelson, he holds nothing back in his revisionist telling about the Sandy Creek Colorado massacre. Frankly, having watched dozens of Westerns I have never seen any of them quite so offensive and brutal. The…