The year was 1982. In the wake of the late ’70s blossoming of the blockbuster, we find America in a state of craving big movies in genres previously seen as less than prestigious and only for the low brow grindhouse and drive-in crowds. But these films were doing boffo business at the box office now….
Cutting Class – 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray Review (MVD Rewind)
Poor Paula (Jill Schoelen)! She has an annoying (but hunky) boyfriend named Dwight (Brad Pitt), an obnoxious best friend (Brenda James), and a strict district attorney daddy (Martin Mull). Her teachers are all perverted weirdos. Even her lascivious principal, Mr. Dante (Roddy McDowall), can’t keep his bulging, horny eyes off her backside. As if her…
Ghoulies II – Blu-ray Review (MVD Rewind)
A man running with a bagful of ghoulies with a bunch of cloaked figures hot on his trail starts this story off. The man is less than successful at destroying the little monsters than he’d hoped. Now the ghoulies have hitched a ride on a carnival caravan and take up residence in the spookhouse. This…
Ghoulies – 4K UHD and Blu-ray Review (MVD Rewind Collection)
At one of them there fancy mansions, somewhere in Hollywood, a warlock named Malcolm Graves (Michael Des Barres) is about to sacrifice his only child for some totally like powerful powers and stuff. Malcolm’s wife, to whom he definitely promised that he wouldn’t sacrifice their baby, interrupts the ceremony and takes her son’s place at…
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…
Kill Zone – Blu-Ray Review (MVD Rewind Collection)
Jason (Fritz Matthews) and Mitchell (Ted Prior) are having one crazy summer. They and a bunch of other unlucky soldiers signed up for Colonel Crawford’s Vietnam POW Zany Escape Room Adventure. Crawford (David Campbell) and his goons have set up the most realistic POW experience that Southern California can provide. Of course, they take things…
Blu-ray Review – House on Sorority Row – MVD Rewind
Horror seems to become popular in waves. Every decade or so some movie seemingly reinvents the wheel of what is scary for the time. This decade for example has seen the rise of Saw inspired “torture porn,” and Americanized versions of foreign (especially Japanese) horror films. In the 90’s it was the pseudo-giallo Scream rip…