Hard-boiled detective fiction writer Richard Foster (John Haslett Cuff) and his wife (Rose Graham) are having a dinner party with some friends to celebrate their wedding anniversary. Unfortunately for them, their housekeeper is Victoria Tusk (Agi Gallus), a madwoman with an even crazier sister named Sarah (Darlene Mignacco), who just escaped from a psychiatric ward…
Sick of Myself Blu-ray Review [Vinegar Syndrome]
Arriving recently from Vinegar Syndrome Pictures (VS’s sub-label that finances and distributes newer films like Censor and The Scary of Sixty-First) comes this twisted Norwegian dark comedy from the director of the under-seen weirdo cult film Drib. Pop a bunch of Lidexol and revel in the adulation because it’s time to dig in! Signe is…
Mexican Gothic: The Films of Carlos Enrique Taboada – Blu-ray Review (Vinegar Syndrome)
I am so happy to see that more and more Mexican horror cinema is hitting the format known as Bluish Laser Beam Diskette AKA Blu-ray. When I can look at my shelves and see titles like Rubén Galindo Jr.’s Cemetery of Terror (1985) and Don’t Panic (1987) sitting there, it fills my heart with a…
Bio-Zombie – Blu-ray Review (Vinegar Syndrome)
Woody Invincible (Jordan Chan) and Crazy Bee (Sam Lee) are two losers who would give Beavis and Butthead a run for their money. They run a bootleg DVD shop in a mall and spend their days scamming, robbing, mooching, bullying, and harassing both customers and their fellow mall workers alike. They’re terrible dudes, but when…
The Devonsville Terror – Blu-ray Review (Vinegar Syndrome)
Picture it: Devonsville, 1683. Some puritanical dickbagels burn three women at the stake. Why oh why did they do this? They think that these totally innocent people are witches! Here comes your fact-filled history lesson, so buckle up, kiddos. Puritans were somewhat anti-witch back in the day. That’s it. Three hundred years later, the same…
The Black Crystal – Blu-ray Review (AGFA/Vinegar Syndrome)
Will (Mike Conway) is cruising out west in his sick Trans Am to go see his brother, who lives in a small town up in the mountains, when he foolishly picks up a sketchy hitchhiker named Justin. They are on the road for about 2 minutes before they are forced off the road by some…
The Invisible Maniac – 4K/Blu-ray Review (Vinegar Syndrome)
Little Kevin Dornwinkle is caught peeping on a sexy neighbor by his mother and her over reaction to this incident instantly creates a future serial killer. Twenty years later, Kevin has grown up into physicist Dr. Dornwinkle (Noel Peters) whose theories on “molecular reorganization” have given him the reputation of being a bit of a…
Frostbiter: Wrath of the Wendigo Blu-ray review
Written, directed, and produced by Tom Chaney who even did the cinematography and editing for the film, Frostbiter: Wrath of the Wendigo (AKA Frostbiter and Wendigo ) is an independent horror comedy about a monster that is revived by a pair of hunters and wreaks havoc on some people staying at a nearby cabin in…
Attack of the Beast Creatures Blu-ray review
Attack of the Beast Creatures, also known as Hell Island, is a regional independent horror film produced and directed by Michael Stanley. It was filmed in Stanford, Connecticut, and stars a cast of unknowns who are basically known for this one movie! Taking place in 1920, the story is about a group of travelers that…
Blu-ray Review – The Birds II: Land’s End – Vinegar Syndrome
Those mean old birds from Alfred Hitchcock’s famous movie about killer birds called Rope (1948) are back and boy howdy, they are mad. They’re frickin’ sick of humankind’s bullcrap what with our all of our polluting the Earth and blaring our loud music. I can’t confirm this but my cursory research indicates that birds especially…