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,…
Blu-ray Review – Cannibal Man – Severin/Subkultur
Review and Notes on Subkultur Edition by Tyler MillerUpdated Comments on Severin Edition by Scott MacDonald Marcos (Vicente Parra) is a lonely slaughterhouse worker, who seems to be just drifting through life. He dreams of having a higher paying job, and marrying his girlfriend Paula (Emma Cohen). One night after a heated date, the two…
Blu-ray Review – The EuroCrypt of Christopher Lee (Severin)
When I was 12 (well over 25 years ago), AMC showed Hammer’s Horror of Dracula one October evening. I had just read the Stoker novel for the first time, and was originally taken back by the divergence from the source material (Yes, I was that much of a nerd), and then Christopher Lee came onto…
Blu-ray Review – Strike Commando 1 and 2 (Severin Films)
Am I allowed to just begin and end this review by saying that this stars Reb Brown and is directed by Bruno Mattei, and it’s restored on Blu-ray, so you should probably just go and buy it? No? I guess not. OK, I’ll soldier on then. So what we have here as 2 of the…
Blu-ray Review – Grizzly/Day of the Animals – Severin Films
It is animal attack month at Severin Films, well aside from the tremendous 4k Santa Sangre release, and in a way that HAD ANIMALS in it (that elephant funeral kills me every time). Earlier in the month we got an excellent release of the underseen sharksploitationer Deep Blood by Italian exploitation king Joe D’Amato, and…
UHD Review – Santa Sangre – Severin Films
Santa Sangre is one of those truly perfect cinematic visions created by an auteur with such a visionary intensity that the whole film appears to be an absolute realization of director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s dreamlike vision. Jodorowsky similar to the Italian master Sergio Leone only directed a handful of features throughout his career, but when he…