Coming in June from Severin Films is the gloriously bizarre Extra Terrestrial Visitors a.k.a. Tales of Trumpy a.k.a. E.T.: The Second Coming a.k.a. The Unearthling a.k.a. Return of E.T., although Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans will know it much better by it’s original US home video release title Pod People). We were lambasted with many…
Violent Streets: The Umberto Lenzi/Tomas Milian Collection Blu-ray Box Set Review [Severin]
Severin Films is no stranger to delivering the goods when it comes to quenching your eurosploitation thirst. And let me tell you that HOT DAWG does this one hit the spot! Severin has graced us with a hefty, sturdy box with a very nice design that is chock full of poliziotteschi goodness, all directed by…
Three Between the Sheets (Ecstasy/Black Venus/Melody of Passion) Blu-ray [Severin]
Arriving on blu-ray from Severin on April 25th is this three-film set of erotic dramas two of which (Black Venus and Ecstasy under the title of Love Scenes) are upgrades of previous DVD releases. Meanwhile the weird ass Melody of Passion arrives on blu-ray for the first time. Let’s slip in something comfortable and see…
Blu-ray Review – Invaders of the Lost Gold – Severin
Review—Invaders of the Lost Gold (Severin) Author: Palo Sionoplia Invaders of the Lost Gold (aka Horror Safari aka Greed) is the addled brainchild of Dick Randall, the infamous exploitation producer of shlock oddities that include The French Sex Murders, The Wild Wild World of Jayne Mansfield, and, of course, Pieces (which is exactly what you…
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 – 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…
Mondo Balordo (Severin/ Something Weird) Blu-ray review
The Mondo subgenre is one of the more unusual sides of exploitation filmmaking. It became popular after the surprise success of 1962’s Mondo Cane. The films are usually “documentaries” of strange things around the world with the aim of being shocking. Most of these films happen to be fake with less than conviving dramatized footage….
The Beast Must Die (Severin) Blu-ray Review
A millionaire/lunatic hunter named Tom Newcliffe (Calvin Lockhart) has pretty much blown entire his fortune installing a state-of-the-art security system on his massive estate. He didn’t do this because he fears intruders, no no, he wants intruders, but especially ones of the lycanthrope variety. One could blame this on harmless eccentricity except Newcliffe has invited…
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…
Aenigma (Severin) Blu-ray Review
A bunch of stuck up jerks at a private school decide to play a cruel prank on Kathy (Milijana Zirojevic), the cleaning lady’s daughter and least popular girl among the student body. They set her up on a date with a hunk and then humiliate her as soon as she lets her guard down. It…