While driving through the Hollywood hills late one night, Ellie (Christina Ricci) and her brother Jimmy (Jesse Eisenberg) nearly run over a huge animal running across the road. Ellie loses control of the car and they get into a wreck with fellow motorist Becky (Shannon Elizabeth). When they stop to help Becky get unstuck from…
Blu-ray Review – The Dead Zone – Scream Factory
Christopher Walken plays Johnny Smith, a high school English teacher who gains psychic abilities after a horrific (or hilarious) car accident puts him in a coma. All Johnny has to do is touch a person and he can see that something horrible is going to happen to them, like hosting a Tupperware party. After this…
King Kong 1976 Blu-ray review (Scream Factory)
The 1976 remake of King Kong was one of the first monster movies that I had ever watched. It was a movie that I had watched before I viewed the timeless original 1933 King Kong and some of the Godzilla movies from the 1960s and 1970s which I am a huge fan of. I will…
The Wind Rises Blu-ray review (Shout Factory)
The Wind Blows is a two-hour animated historical drama feature from 2013 that takes a look at the life of Jiro Horikoshi, who was a successful designer Japanese fighter planes during World War II. This was to be the last film of director Hayao Miyazaki as he had retired but wound up coming out of…
The Brides of Dracula (Shout! Factory) Blu-ray Review
While traveling to her job at a fancy girls’ school, student teacher Marianne (Yvonne Monlaur) gets waylaid at a local inn after her coach driver leaves her stranded. She is “rescued” by Baroness Meinster (Martita Hunt), who takes her to her mansion for the night, claiming that she’s a lonely old woman, desperate for company…
Blu-Ray Review – The Kiss of the Vampire (Scream Factory)
At a funeral in small village, an old man interrupts the vicar and horrifies the gathered mourners by plunging a spade into the coffin. But it is the woman’s scream from inside the grave and the bubbling pool of blood from the broken coffin lid that sends them all running. Meanwhile, after their new-fangled horseless…
Metamorphosis/Beyond Darkness (Scream Factory, Blu-ray) Review
Metamorphosis stars Gene Lebrock as Dr. Peter Houseman, a scientist who believes he has achieved a way to cure death by tapping into the evolutionary memory of DNA. Frustrated by the small-mindedness of his colleagues, he experiments on himself to prove his theories. As his science becomes more and more mad, his relationship with university…
MST3K: Manos The Hands of Fate (Shout! Factory) DVD Review
Somewhere in rural Texas a vacationing family take a wrong turn and end up staying the night at a menacing lodge under the careful watch of the creepy Torgo (John Reynolds), who serves at the best of the Master (Tom Neyman), the leader of a cult that worships a vengeful spirit known only as Manos….
MST3K Vs Gamera (Shout! Factory) DVD Review
About 2 years ago when I started the site I did an interview with Kevin Murphy for one of the first MST3K releases reviewed for ECAV. I wouldn’t suggest looking for it, it never got posted, as the audio was too terrible to post in .mp3 format, and I could barely hear it myself…
Mad Max (Scream Factory) Blu-ray Review
It is interesting watching Mad Max with people who are not totally familiar with the film these days. The last few times I’ve watched the original film, it has been in the presence with someone who knew the series from the more popular sequels in the latter case this was my own fault, as the…