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…
Blu-ray Review – Carnival Magic (Severin Films)
I am old enough to remember when a VHS box set of Ed Wood’s films wrapped in Angora (like Wood’s preferred sweaters) was considered a big deal in the realm of cult cinema. Now in late May of 2020, in the midst of the worst pandemic in 100 years, Severin Films has given viewers a…