Clint (Charles Pitts) is a hapless gas station attendant who is forced to go on the lam after being framed for the (shockingly brutal) murder of his cuckolding wife (Shari Eubank) by the sadistic corrupt cop Harry Sledge (Charles Napier). While on the road, Clint tumbles into a variety of sexy shenanigans, swinging with a…
Russ Meyer’s Beyond the Valley of the Ultra Vixens [Severin] Blu-ray review
Russ Meyer is an interesting character. Nicknamed the Walt Disney of the skin flick, he made strange, but fun, soft-core films. “Beneath the Valley of the Ultra Vixens” (BTVOTUV) is no exception. The 93-minute film features a lot of strange characters in “Small Town, U.S.A”. Opening with the narrator, a kindly old man with a…
Vixen [Severin Films] Blu-ray Review
Vixen Palmer (Erica Gavin) is insatiable. She is married to pilot Tom (Garth Pillsbury), but his job inevitably takes him away from home for long stretches, leaving poor ol’ Vixen sexually frustrated and looking to get with anyone within thrusting distance. This leads her on a series of sexual misadventures that involves mounting a mountie,…
Scala!!! Or, the Incredibly Strange Rise and Fall of the World’s Wildest Cinema and How It Influenced a Mixed-up Generation of Weirdos and Misfits [Severin] Blu-ray Review
From 1978 to 1993, the Scala Cinema near King’s Cross Station in London was the wildest, most out-there, transgressive counter-culture repertory cinema in the UK, bringing together freaks, geeks, outcasts, weirdos, those with alternative lifestyles, the LGBTQ+ crowd and just regular theater-goers looking for something off the beaten path. From their iconic themed monthly programs…
Dario Argento’s Deep Cuts [Severin Films] Blu-ray Review
At various points in his illustrious career, celebrated Italian horror maestro Dario Argento took his talents to the small screen, beaming certified Argento productions into the homes of millions of viewers complete with his distinct brand of macabre menace. In 1973, he produced an anthology miniseries called Door Into Darkness which featured four episodes of…
Danza Macabra Volume Three [Severin Films] Blu-ray Box Set Review
Severin has unleashed another box set of tasty Spanish gothic morsels to devour! How does each film stack up though? Let’s dig in to find out! In Necrophagous, Michael Sherrington has been away on business but returns to his ancestral home to discover that his wife died during childbirth and his child was stillborn. While…
Cathy’s Curse [Severin] 4K UHD Blu-ray Review
Poor George… After his mom leaves his dad, she takes him with her and leaves his dad and little sister behind, and he later finds out that his dad and sister were killed in a terrible car accident. We then flash forward about 30 years. George is now married to a mentally unwell woman and…
LOLA [Severin Films] Blu-ray Review
Thomasina (“Thom”) and Martha (“Mars”) are orphaned sisters living in a remote house in the English countryside in 1941. Thom has invented a revolutionary invention nicknamed “Lola” which is able to receive video and audio transmissions from the future. At first, they just use it to listen to rock and roll innovations in the years…
Hot Spur [Severin Films] Blu-ray Review
We open with a group of bored, horny cowboys getting drunk in a bar and then raping a woman while her younger brother Carlo, who works on the same ranch that the cowboys do, watches helplessly. It’s later revealed in flashback that this isn’t even the first time that Carlo has witnessed his sister being…
Bloodmoon (Severin) Blu-ray Review
This late period Ozsploitation slasher arrives on blu-ray courtesy of Severin in a spiffy new edition. The all-girls school Saint Elizabeth’s has a history of hooking up with both locals and horny, young gents from the nearby all-boys Winchester School. Amidst a rivalry between the Winchester boys and the local guys, students from both schools…