So, what happens when a legendary director, who is renowned for being one of the “godfathers of gore” no less, makes a Mafia/Crime Thriller? Being an ardent fan of Italian maestro Lucio Fulci, and never having seen Contraband, I was curious as Hell to check out the shiny new blu-ray …

Long given the reputation of being a little viewed classic of 70’s occult horror, Messiah of Evil gets a “everything and the kitchen sink” release from Radiance. Does it deserve the hype? Synopsis “A young woman goes searching for her missing artist father. Her journey takes her to a strange …

Writer Rospo Pallenburg (Deliverance) only had one other directing credit (albeit, uncredited), the 1977 stinker Exorcist II: The Heretic when he went dove headlong into 1988’s Cutting Class. Largely formulaic, but with a solid cast, budget and some inventive kills, Cutting Class gets the 4K treatment  from MVD Visual’s “Rewind …

Grindhouse Releasing is amazing at cleaning up those old classics! Their stellar editions of The Beyond and Cannibal Holocaust are among my favorites. So, my curiosity was definitely piqued when I heard they were releasing Impulse, a seldom seen film from director William Grefe (Mako: The Jaws of Death) starring …

Infamous Euro-sleaze director Jess Franco (Vampyros Lesbos) tried to capture that luscious Technicolor magic of Hammer Studios’ gothic horror films of the 50s and 60s on several occasions. Most notably with Count Dracula (also 1970), and even managed to lure fright legend Christopher Lee away from the fabled studio for …

For the most part, the Universal monster films I saw as a kid (Saturday afternoons when I was a wee lad on WUAB 43 out of Cleveland, Super Host!!) were pretty engrossing to my pre-adolescent mind. Lugosi’s Dracula was creepy, as was Karloff’s muted menacing in Frankenstein, but the full …

2015’s The Slashening was a solid, hilarious horror/comedy film filled with enough gags, gore and winks and nods to the audience to satisfy even the most ardent of Troma fans. Finally arriving on Blu-ray, writer/director Brandon Bassham’s (Shakespeare’s Shitstorm) 2021 gonzo, irreverent sequel, Slashening: The Final Beginning takes it up …

“Based on true events” films are hit and miss. Often over dramatized and of dubious quality, they can easily fall into terrible TV reenactment territory. The Lost, adapted from the late Jack Ketchum’s (The Girl Next Door) novel, that in turn was based upon real life killer Charles Schmid, is …

A ton of shot-on-video stuff, while inspired, fell through the cracks during the home video explosion of the late 80s-early 90s. But, while dusting this stuff off for sharper new releases, Wild Eye’s Visual Vengeance unearthed a lost gem that was (Yikes!) shot on Super-8: The Wrong Door. Synopsis Ted …

With a title like Onlyfangs,  how can you NOT be even a little interested?? Coming soon from the writer/director team that brought us last year’s Murdercise (our review), Paul Ragsdale and Angelica De Alba, Onlyfangs stars Drew Marvick (Pool Party Massacre) as the lovable monster hunter, Wes, who discovers a …