Tag: USA

The Mole People (Shout! Factory) Blu-ray Review

Archaeologist Dr. Bentley (John Agar) and his mountain crew suddenly full into a cave while climbing. They suddenly find themselves in a deep hidden world with two races of people. One is a group of Mole like subhuman mole like beasts, and the others are albino men who fear the bright sun. But as Bentley and company…


Troll: The Complete Collection (Eureka!) Blu-ray Review

TROLL 2 (1990) started life as another latter-day Italian horror film with a special twist. It was a vegetarian spoofing nightmare filmed in the US with American actors. It was a common practice, but somehow the movie found new life on VHS as a notorious “so bad it’s good” movie in the same vein as…


Grizzly (88 Films) Blu-ray Review

Park ranger Michael Kelly (Christopher George) is proud of the National park he oversees. The park is untouched and for looks exactly the way it did when it was inhabited by Native Americans. But as the camping season is heading to a close, the park is suddenly menaced by a wild grizzly. One that is not park of the forest’s natural bear population. As campers and rangers get picked off one…


The Woman in the Window (Eureka! Masters of Cinema) Blu-ray Review

With his wife and two kids away for a Summer vacation, Psychology Professor Dr. Wanley (Edward G. Robinson) is left all alone to enjoy his work. But his friends can’t help but poke fun at his lack of a sense of adventure. After leaving the gentleman’s club late one evening, He stops to look at…


Geronimo (Twilight Time) Blu-ray Review

Lt. Britton Davis (Matt Damon) tells the story about how he joined the hunt to stop the Apache chief Geronimo (Wes Studi). As the US soldiers get closer to the man known as Geronimo, they soon realize how wrong this world is. Walter Hill is one of the great tough-guy directors. Despite some hiccups like…


Godzilla (1954) (Criterion Collection) Blu-ray Review

     The first time I saw Godzilla was on a mid-afternoon screening on a local horror show in New Jersey as a child. I couldn’t have been older than 6-7, the quality couldn’t have been great, all I can remember is that it made an impact.  When that giant green lizard was on screen my mind…


Atlantis: The Lost Empire (Disney) Blu-ray Review

The early 2000’s was an uneven period for Disney animation. After the early 90’s brought them back to the forefront of animation with films like Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, and the Lion King they began a decent in quality starting with Pocahontas. Starting around 2000 they started to change things up from the musical-feature…


DVD Review: Action-Packed Movie Marathon Volume 2 (Shout! Factory)

Shout! Factory returns with another dose of action-powered goodness in this 2-DVD set.  Volume Two presents four more explosive flicks with high-octane star power and enough shootouts and hand to hand combat to enthrall any action aficionado.  With films ranging from 1974 to 1988, this movie marathon is destined to capture the glory days of…


DVD Review: A Saint, A Woman, A Devil (Vinegar Syndrome)

Originally released under the title (Sylvia). This Is possibly one of the oddest, weirdest, craziest Grindhouse, sexplotation type of films that one would ever see or ever try to comprehend. The weirdness of it is perfect and the strange reality of what it captures holds the viewer in all of it’s odd and surreal atmosphere….


Blu-ray Review: A THOUSAND AND ONE EROTIC NIGHTS/ A THOUSAND AND ONE EROTIC NIGHTS 2: THE FORBIDDEN TALES (Vinegar Syndrome)

After discovering his wife is cheating on him, The Sultan (John Leslie) requests a wild night with a concubine named Scheherezade (Annette Haven) to forget his troubles. The only problem is afterward the poor woman is set to be killed. So in an effort to spare her life, she tells the Sultan a series of…