Retro Reviews

For those who aren’t familiar with it, Big Trouble in Little China is a John Carpenter film that released on July 2, 1986, one that struggled and inevitably flopped in the box office but rebounded on home video release, eventually becoming a cult classic, loved by many, but especially this …

Like it or not, everybody, and their brother (sometimes literally), in the late 90’s-early aughts, were making direct-to-video horror films. Shooting and editing were quick, easy, and relatively cheap, and distribution was everywhere to feed rental stores hungry for product. Predictively, lots of ripe turds were shat out onto shelves, …

It’s truly hard to believe that horror filmmakers were running out of ideas in the mid 1980’s, but haunted elevators? On the surface, that’s what director Dick Maas’ 1983 film The Lift appears to be about. But, in a strange amalgamation of genres, it touches on some themes that were …

My introduction to director Rolf Kanefsky was 1990’s brilliant There’s Nothing Out There, but my introduction (apart from a fleeting Tromatic glance)  to horror film goddess Tiffany Shepis (Victor Crowley) was Kanefsky’s equally brilliant The Hazing. Having only seen it on bootlegs of dubious quality and streaming, I jumped into …

As a child of the early 1980’s, few films sparked my imagination the way Clash of the Titans (1981) did. Even though it followed visual FX extravaganzas like Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Superman, Ray Harryhausen’s painstaking stop motion work was still more than capable of inciting wonder …

I have always loved sharks, and as such have been a sucker for shark movies for as long as I can remember. I have seen a ton of killer shark movies in my day, and while some of them are awesome there are also a lot of them that are …

James Wan’s The Conjuring 2 is one sequel I like more than the original, which has only happened a small handful of times. The Conjuring 2 was released, some nightmares of my own, bringing into play my phobia, which I will get to later. I will admit I dreaded going …

In my life, there have been just a few movies that got under my skin. Richard Donner’s  The Omen has something about it, maybe because, oh, I don’t know, the Antichrist?! (Insert laugh track here). All joking aside, many people agree that this movie is a traumatic experience. Let’s get …

The early 1990s are often looked at as a dumping ground for the most bland and regurgitated horror movies in the genre in decades. But if you look closely enough, there were some diamonds in the rough that knew how to have fun. Such is the case in one of …

New from the deranged folks at SRS Cinema, is a snazzy Blu ray release from The Sleaze Box: writer/director Chris Woods’ (Death-Scort Service 1-3) 2016 splatter/exploitation flick Chaos AD (no relation to Brazilian metal icons Sepultura). Naturally, being a fan of grimy indie sleaze, I dove right in! Synopsis On …