I feel like I find myself constantly praising Severin Films for releasing my favorite type of film, Italian and European exploitation and horror in the best possible editions, and look here I am doing it again. More normal people than myself are constantly decrying the end of physical media, but before Blu-ray happened, I was…
A Scream in the Streets Blu-ray review
A Scream in the Streets is 1973 sexploitation film about two Los Angeles detectives Officers Ed Haskell and Bob Streeker (Joshua Bryant and Frank Bannon, respectively) that are assigned to track down and arrest a brutal rapist-murderer terrorizing the city. The assignment is a bit tricky because the killer disguises himself as a woman. While…
Blu-ray Review – Nosferatu in Venice – Severin Films
Nosferatu in Venice is a Klaus Kinski-starring pseudo sequel to the classic Nosferatu directed by Werner Herzog and starring Kinski. But aside from sharing Nosferatu in the title, the vampire aspect, and Kinsky nothing else relates, And I am totally cool with that. Eurohorror pseudo sequels, are never not interesting to me, and Nosferatu in…
Shock Treatment Blu-ray review
Shock Treatment, known as Traitement de choc is a French/Italian production starring the legendary actor Alain DeLon in one of his most outrageous roles, iconic French actress Annie Giradot and directed by Alain Jessua. The film is a cult favorite among fans of the genre. The story is about what lengths a person is willing…
Severin Films – Black Friday Sale Review
It is that time of year again when the holidays are rolling around the stores are trying to get shoppers in with cut throat deals. It is also the time of years when our beloved home video labels unleash some surprise goodies upon their various fandoms. It’s an exciting time for sure, a lot of…
Blu-ray Review – Patrick Still Lives (Severin Films)
About 10 years ago I received a book called “Italian Horror” by Jim Harper, at the time there was not a lot of books on this regional division of horror, and so I was happy to have anything related to spaghetti splatter on my bookshelf.Until I got this. Harper’s book covered the years 1978 to…
Primitives Blu-ray review
Primitives, also known as Savage Terror and Death Cry of the Cannibals (this title is used in the film’s opening) is an Indonesian film based on Italian styles and versions cannibal films. In fact, based on some scenes, one would think Primitives was inspired by them. The story is about three anthropology students Robert…
Demonia (Severin) Blu-ray Review
Brett Halsey plays Professor Paul Evans, an archeologist leading an excavation in Sicily. Liza Harris (Meg Register), one of his colleagues on the dig, becomes obsessed with the chambers underneath a church on the mountain overlooking the village where the team is working. It was site of a massacre committed by the local townspeople of…
Blu-ray Review – Horrors of Spider Island (Severin)
Horrors of Spider Island opens with Gary a nightclub owner in Singapore auditioning sexy women for his club. They come in by ones and in pairs, show off their “assets”, and either get selected or rejected (spoiler, they all get accepted). Gary than gets all these lovely ladies on to his plane to wing them…
Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson (Severin) Blu-ray Review
Every horror and exploitation scavenger has likely had a run-in with the work of Al Adamson at some point. With titles in his filmography like Blood of Dracula’s Castle (1969) and The Naughty Stewardesses (1974), how could any trash movie enthusiast resist? The son of low budget western actor/director Victor Adamson (AKA Denver Dixon), Adamson…