Elisa (Sally Hawkins) is a mute cleaning woman at a top secret government facility who becomes fascinated with a humanoid amphibian creature (Doug Jones) that is being held captive and tormented by the sadistic Richard Strickland (Michael Shannon). When her feelings of fascination grow into something more akin to love, Elisa, with the help of…
The Searchers UHD review
Legendary director John Ford’s The Searchers is the story about an American Civil War veteran who goes on a long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother’s family is attacked and murdered during a raid on their farm in Texas. The journey takes several years and has many…
The Talk of the Town UHD review
The Talk of the Town is a comedy drama that has a fantastic cast with three iconic and legendary actors in Cary Grant, Jean Arthus and Ronald Coleman. Directed by George Stevens, his film is one of his best works! When mill worker now accused murderer and arsonist Leopold Dilg (Cary Grant, North by Northwest,…
The Giant Spider Invasion UHD release
Director Bill Rebane’s The Giant Spider Invasion is beyond a shadow of a doubt, his most popular and well-known movie. Having appeared on ABC television and getting exposure on Mystery Science Theater 3000, plus lots of DVD releases over the years made this big bad bug film his biggest movie ever! It also didn’t hurt…
EuroCultAV Holiday Gift Guide 2024! – Part 1 – Blu-ray and UHD
Contributions from the staff of EuroCultAV including Ben Tucker, Scott MacDonald, David Steigman, and Richard Glenn Schmidt. That oh-so-frosty time of year has arrived once again when we reflect back on what a bountiful crop of splendid releases that have been put out by all the stellar boutique media labels out there and recommend some…
Demons 2 [Synapse Films] 4K Blu ray review
Demons 2 is an Italian horror movie by returning director Lamberto Bava with a producer credit from the famous Dario Argento. I recently reviewed Demons and admitted to having previously watched it. As much as I enjoyed it, I never got around to watching the sequel. So, the 4K release by Synapse Films is my…
The Convent [Synapse] 4K UHD Blu-ray Review
It’s 1960 and we watch as a catholic school girl named Christine walks into a nunnery, takes a swig of whiskey and proceeds to kill the shit out of every nun in the place, smashing them with a baseball bat, covering them in gasoline and setting them on fire and blasting them apart using a…
The Hitcher UHD review (Warner Brothers)
Robert Harmon’s The Hitcher is an immensely popular horror thriller that fans had been clamoring a Blu-ray release for many years. Fans of the film have finally had their requests met. Not only has it been finally released domestically on Blu-ray for the first time, but also now is available on 4K UHD. Warner Brothers…
Demons [Synapse Films] 4K UHD Blu-ray Review
Directed by Lamberto Bava Demons is an Italian horror movie by Lamberto Bava with a producer credit from the famous Dario Argento. In full transparency, I have seen this movie before. So the 4K release by Synapse Films is not my first exposure to the film. Picking up my copy, I noticed that the packaging…
The Million Eyes of Sumuru [Blue Underground] 4K UHD Blu-ray Review
Like the Christopher Lee-starring Fu Manchu films that Harry Alan Towers produced concurrently in the ’60s, The Million Eyes of Sumuru features a character torn from the pages of the novels of Sax Rohmer. Sumuru (Goldfinger Bond girl Shirley Eaton) is a dastardly yet sexy mastermind who is hell bent on world domination by systematically…