A Chinese Torture Chamber Story Part 1 and 2 (ACTCS1 and ACTCS2) are a pair of movies that use torture as the centerpiece of the film, as implied by the titles. They were Category 3 films made by the Hong Kong film industry, which was a severe rating indicating graphic sex, violence, or triad rituals….
Io Capitano [Cohen Media Group] Blu-ray Review
Seyoud and Moussa are two teen cousins living in less than optimal conditions in Senegal, dreaming of a better life. They finally decide to forge ahead with the ultimate goal of traveling to Italy. The road is a tough one though. After forging passports and nearly being caught by the police, they brave many challenges…
Goodbye Uncle Tom [Blue Underground] 4K Blu-ray Review
The Premise: Documentarians have traveled back to the antebellum southern United States during the pre-Civil War era when slavery was rampant. Their goal is to capture and expose the cruelty and horrors of the slave trade in as realistic a manner as possible. Witness slave ships with poor souls packed into the galley like sardines,…
Rolling Thunder [Shout Select] 4K Blu-ray Review
Major Charles Rane (William Devane) is a returning hero, having finally been freed from a POW camp in Vietnam where he endured terrible experiences that pushed the limits of human endurance. Back on American soil he is reunited with his family but feels ill prepared to ease back into family life. To make matters worse,…
Night of the Blood Monster a.k.a. The Bloody Judge [Blue Underground] 4K Blu-ray Review
Christopher Lee stars as the cold and merciless Judge Jeffreys, based on a real person (although our old pal Jess Franco takes massive liberties with the historical source material). Jeffreys is a ruthless witchfinder in the 17th century (in reality though he was more concerned with traitors to the crown) who while in his day-to-day…
Ben Reads the Horror Classics: Harrowing Night Stalking and Gothic Deep Ones
Welcome back, boils and ghouls to another installment in this delightful journey through the horror fantastique where in this segment we will look at what would happen if you put together Lovecraft’s Deep Ones with the notorious Lizzie Borden, a series of spooky monster adventures with intrepid reporter Carl Kolchak, a deeply sad and disturbing…
Masters of Horror Presents: Paul Naschy
Paul Naschy is almost certainly Spain’s most well-known horror actor, portraying in many films variations of many of the classic Universal monsters like Dracula, Frankenstein and Wolfman. In particular, he was perhaps most known for his portrayal of Waldemar Daninsky, a tortured lycanthrope who garnered as much pity as he cultivated scares, that he would…