Mondo Macabro delivers another underseen classic with the Greek film The Fear on blu-ray for the first time anywhere. Feel the simmering tensions well up and explode in this provocative psychological thriller! Anna is a city-dwelling student who returns to her family’s farm at a time where her father Dimitrios is struggling, working himself to…
House of Terrors – Blu-ray Review (Mondo Macabro)
Yoshie (Yûko Kusunoki) receives news that her husband has died under mysterious circumstances. Then she finds out that he had a mistress AND even had a creepy old villa out in the middle of nowhere that she’s inherited. You take the good. You take the bad. You take them both and then you have… the…
A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse – Blu-ray Review (Mondo Macabro)
Yukino (Naomi Tani) is stuck working in a bathhouse (AKA brothel) because of her utterly worthless and downright evil husband Toriyama (Kôji Fujiyama). Things only get worse when her younger sister Mayumi (Misa Ohara) shows up to live with the couple and even worser than that, Yukino reveals to her dirtbag hubbie that she is…
Blu-ray Review – Other Side of the Mirror – Mondo Macabro
My name is Scott MacDonald and I am a Franco-holic. To be fair I’ve only seen about 80 films, and I feel like that’s even THAT BAD considering this is a director with over 200 films to his credit. However, today I get to review one of the few big ones I had left to…
Blu-ray Review – Love Brides of the Blood Mummy – Mondo Macabro
Love Brides of the Blood Mummy is a French/Spanish co-production directed by Ken Ruder I’ve heard about for decades, but have only now just seen due to the new release by Mondo Macabro. The film follows an Egyptologist, James Barton, who has heard rumors of a local Count having actual mummies in his possession. As…
Blu-ray Review – Strangler vs. Strangler – Mondo Macabro
Strangler Vs. Strangler I had no idea what to expect when I popped STRANGLER VS STRANGLER into my blu ray player, but what I got was a bizarre slice of filmmaking from a region I have never experienced before. STRANGLER VS STRANGLER is a Serbian serial killer/dark comedy/quasi documentary about a man with the gnarliest…
Blu-ray Review – Hotel Fear – Mondo Macabro
In 1974 director Francesco Barilli grabbed actress Mimsy Farmer, and created the delirious giallo masterpiece the “Perfume of the Lady in Black”, 3 years later he would return the giallo genre with an oft-neglected film that would combine elements of gothic horror and sleaze into the giallo formula to create something truly bizarre, delirious, and…
Blu-ray Review – Sukkubus – Mondo Macabro
Three herdsmen, two grown men and a teenage boy, are up in the mountains tending to their cows and making cheese. Despite all of their superstitious and religious beliefs protecting them and guiding their day-to-day lives, these stupid ass morons conjure up a freakin’ succubus (played by Pamela Prati). She swoops in and causes all…
Blu-ray Review – School of Death – Mondo Macabro
Besties, Leonore (Sandra Mozarowsky) and Sylvia (Victoria Vera), dream of getting out of their finishing school/orphanage someday. Their lives are pretty miserable thanks to the domineering headmistress, Miss Wilkins (Norma Kastel), who doles out cruel (and kinda kinky) punishments for the smallest infractions. Their best chance of happiness is becoming maids for rich people. What…
School of Death Blu-ray review
School of Death aka El colegio de la Muerte is a Spanish horror thriller about a mad doctor lobotomizes women for sleazy purposes. The film was an obscurity for quite some time and after watching it, it should have stayed in the land of obscure films. Taking place in London in 1899, an orphanage sends…