Director Michael Curtiz, the man responsible for directing some of the arguably best classic films in cinema including Casablanca, Mildred Pierce, and Angels with Dirty Faces, dabbled a little into the classic horror film genre in the early thirties. Horror themed movies on his resume which consist of Doctor X, Mystery of the Wax Museum…
Monolith [Well Go USA] Blu-ray Review
Lily Sullivan (Evil Dead Rise) stars as a disgraced journalist who has holed up in her strikingly lovely house to record a podcast that seeks to unravel a mystery around a series of strange, seemingly otherworldly black bricks that people from all over the world have acquired through bizarre circumstances. The closer to the truth…
Ben Reads the Horror Classics: Werewolves, Ghosts and Vampires… Oh My!
As the year winds its way down and night encroaches upon our empty lives earlier and earlier, horror encases the soul like a salve to soothe the jagged edges of the frizzled psyche during these dark months. Naturally I have arrived to bring you more write-ups from this big ass horror list project I’ve been…
Horrors of the Black Museum Blu-ray review
Horrors of the Black Museum is a British horror film which stars legendary horror actor Michael Gough doing what he does best- playing a charming, yet sinister villain who is behind a series of murders which he then writes books about them! In this picture, Michael Gough (Horror of Dracula, Konga, Trog) is Edmund…
Black Circle Blu-ray Review [Synapse Films]
Celeste is struggling to get her life in order. Between losing her job and breaking up with her boyfriend, she feels aimless and unloved, so she seeks advice from her sister who seems to have it all together. Her sister tells her about a self-help system called Magnetic Hypnotism that has helped her and gives…
Witchtrap – Blu-ray Review (MVD Rewind)
Plans to turn a haunted house into a bed and breakfast turn deadly when a magician is pushed or is straight up flung out of a third story window to his death by an unseen presence. A ragtag (read as: shitty) group of parapsychologists and a trio of private security dudes show up to exorcise…
Swamp Thing – 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Review (MVD Visual)
Government stooge Alice Cable (Adrienne Barbeau) is sent out to the swamps of North Carolina to look in on the research of Dr. Alec Holland (Ray Wise) to see how his crazy formula is going. Holland is supposed to be making something that glows green like the reanimation agent that Dr. Herbert West developed a…
Alien from the Abyss Blu-ray Review [Severin]
Coming later this month from our dear friends at Severin… THE CLAW! OH GOD!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! Oh wait, it’s just Alien from the Abyss a.k.a. Alien from the Deep (as my old, junky One 7 DVD calls it), part jungle action, part Aliens rip-off, all eurotrash good-badness. Let’s pop this puppy in and…
YellowBrickRoad Blu-ray review
YellowBrickRoad is a horror film from 2010 directed by Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton and that stars Cassidy Freeman, Anessa Ramsey and Laura Heisler. Yes, YellowBrickRoad has a small connection to The Wizard of Oz, hence the title. The story is about an expedition in the town of Friar, New Hampshire that is trying to…
Koko-Di Koko-Da Blu-ray Review
Dark Star Pictures and OCN Distribution bring us the spiffy Swedish fantasy horror of Koko-di koko-da directed by Johannes Nyholm in a packed new blu-ray as a new entry in one of Vinegar Syndrome’s ever-growing partner label releases. Tobias and Elin (Leif Edlund and Ylva Gallon) are happily married and celebrating their daughter Maja’s birthday,…