Russ Meyer is an interesting character. Nicknamed the Walt Disney of the skin flick, he made strange, but fun, soft-core films. “Beneath the Valley of the Ultra Vixens” (BTVOTUV) is no exception. The 93-minute film features a lot of strange characters in “Small Town, U.S.A”. Opening with the narrator, a kindly old man with a…
Bart La Rue’s Satan War [AGFA] Blu-ray Review
Bart La Rue was a character actor that was in an astounding number of television shows in the 60s and 70s (Mission Impossible, The Brady Bunch, Star Trek, Bonanza) who had a deep, resonant voice made for broadcasting or the stage. Something he always wanted to do was direct. In his short directing career, he…
Blood-a-Rama Triple Frightmare 2 [AGFA + Something Weird] Blu-ray review
The triple feature, ahem, sorry. I meant to say triple frightmare is comprise of three movies contained in this release and are all very short, one under thirty minutes and two around an hour. The run time is padded a little with AGFA’s always entertaining drive-in mode where they intersperse clips and trailers from old…
After The Thin Man (Warner Archives) Blu-ray Review
After the events of The Thin Man, Nick and Nora Charles (William Powell and Myrna Loy) arrive in San Francisco just in time for New Years’. After solving a murder on Christmas and dealing with the endless publicity (and drinks), Nick is ready for a rest. But nothing stays calm for too long in The…
The Severed Arm (Vinegar Syndrome) Blu-ray review
A group of friends plans the perfect camping trip for a relaxing vacation. They stumble across a hidden cave and decide to explore it. But the unstable walls crash and trap them deep inside. After being stuck for days, the group starts to become desperate and hungry. They come up with a plan to eat…
Best Friends (1975) (Vinegar Syndrome) Blu-ray review
Long time friends Jesse and Pat (Richard Hatch and Doug Chapin) have finally made it home after a tour of duty in Vietnam. To celebrate their newfound freedom, the guys decide to go on one last road trip with their girlfriends before they settle down and get married. The trip starts innocently enough, but it…
Pat and Mike (Warner Archive) Blu-ray Review
Pat Pemberton (Katherine Hepburn) is a PE teacher who finally has enough of her finance’s attitude when tells her to lose at a game of golf to impress his boss. It seems her whole life is just serving the men around her. She decides to enter a professional tournament of golf and soon gets the…
Mosquito (Synapse) Blu-ray Review
Visual effects artist Gary Jones (Army of Darkness, Moontrap) made his directorial debut with 1995’s Mosquito, an entertaining tongue-in-cheek homage to the giant monster and killer bug B-movies of yesteryear. Jones’ labor of love receives its long-awaited debut on Blu-ray courtesy of Synapse Films with a beautifully upgraded transfer and some terrific supplements that dig…
The Narrow Margin (1990) (Kino Lorber) Blu-ray review
While going on a blind date, Carol (Anne Archer), becomes a witness to a brutal mob hit. Thinking that she can avoid any trouble, she decides to hide out in her brother’s cabin in Canada. Carol doesn’t know that the man with the hitman was actually an infamous Mob Boss. A Los Angeles district attorney…
Massacre Mafia Style (Grindhouse Releasing) Blu-ray Review
I like to think of Duke Mitchell, not as a filmmaker, not as an actor, or a crooner, but as a mid-20th Century Renaissance Man. Mitchell was a Sinatra style crooner in the early portion of his career, before a producer paired him with Jerry Lewis clone Sammy Petrillo for a night club act. Although,…