It’s Black Friday which means it is sale time everywhere, but in cult cinema releasing world it means that labels are throwing out some specialized packages to entice fans. This Black Friday Severin Films are unleashing Severin Blu-ray releases of wild exploitation, foreign, and shock cinema sure to please fans, and we got our hands…
Blu-ray Review – Franco Noir – Death Whistles the Blues/Rififi in the City (Severin Films)
My name is Scott MacDonald and I am addicted to Jess Franco films. If you’ve been reading this website for the past 13 years as I’m sure at least a few of you have, you might be aware of this, so needless to say when this found its way into my mailbox it immediately become…
Blu-ray Review – Eloy de la Iglesia’s Quinqui Collection (Severin)
Review—Eloy de la Iglesia’s Quinqui Collection (Severin) Author: Palo Sionoplia I’ve seen more cult films than you’ve had hot dinners. On demand, I can rattle off multi-page lists of gialli, yakuza films, SOV disasterpieces, Bollywood classics…you get the picture. Two weeks ago, I couldn’t tell you a thing about the Quinqui genre. Thanks to Severin,…
Blu-ray Review – A Day of Judgement – Severin Films
Sometime in the 1920s, the inhabitants of a small town are struggling financially and morally in their (comically miserable) daily lives. The local bringer of bummer, Reverend Cage (Charles Reynolds and not Nicholas Cage), is tired of watching his congregation dwindle and is set to retire. Luckily for him, the Angel of Death has rolled…
Blu-ray Review – Midnight – Severin Films
Somewhere just outside of Pittsburgh, a mother and her four children are hunting a little girl for their satanic ritual. This family really loves Satan! God bless ‘em! Fast forward to “Yesterday” (sometime in 1982, that is) where we meet Nancy (Melanie Verlin), a teenage girl with an unfortunate haircut. When her creepy cop stepdad…
Blu-ray Review – The Fourth Victim – Severin Films
Arthur Anderson (Michael Craig) is your typical guy who’s been widowed three times. Each of his deceased wives had a life insurance policy bigger than the one before her and now the law and his insurance company are getting just a little suspicious of him. Wacky police inspector Dunphy (José Luis López Vázquez) is particularly…
Blu-ray Review – No One Heard the Scream
Review—No One Heard the Scream (Severin) Author: Palo Sionoplia Last month, Severin blessed cult film fans with the release of five Eloy de la Iglesia films (spread across three blu-ray releases). This is a boon to those of us in the USA who’ve only had access to a few of these films via subpar transfers….
Blu-ray Review – Skinned Deep – Severin
Review—Skinned Deep (Severin) Author: Palo Sionoplia In the early 2000s, Fangoria films rode the direct-to-video wave with a spate of films under the company’s newly-minted “Gorezone” imprint. While none of these films broke new ground, they gave young directors the opportunity to develop their craft and release material that was too quirky for the multiplex….
Blu-ray Review – Siege – Severin Films
Review—Siege (Severin)Author: Palo Sionoplia In 1983, Canadian genre cinema gave the world its answer to John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13 via the aptly-titled thriller Siege. In hopes of creating a film with strong commercial appeal, co-directors Paul Donovan (who also wrote and produced the film) and Maura O’Connell concocted a lean, mean work of…
Blu-ray Review – Overboard – Severin Films
Overboard follows Joanne (Goldie Hawn) and Dean (Kurt Russell). Joanne is a rich heiress, who is currently running around the world in a yacht with her equally snobby husband Grant. Grant and Joanne arrive in Elk Grove, OR. Where Joanne hires Dean to remodel her shoe closet, when she is not pleased with the work,…