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4K Ultra HD Review – The Return of the Living Dead (1985)

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The Return of the Living Dead, 1985. Written and Directed by Dan O’Bannon. Starring Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa, Thom Mathes, Beverly Randolph, John Philbin, Jewel Shepard, Miguel Nunez, Brian Peck and Linnea Quigley. SYNOPSIS: When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors […]

4K Ultra HD Review – Creepshow 2 (1987)

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Creepshow 2, 1987. Directed by Michael Gornick, Starring Lois Chiles, George Kennedy, Dorothy Lamour, and Tom Savini. SYNOPSIS: Three macabre tales from the latest issue of a boy’s favorite comic book, dealing with a vengeful wooden Native American, a monstrous blob in a lake, and an undying hitchhiker. When Creepshow 2 first lurched onto screens […]

Blu-ray Review – The Diabolical Dr. Z (1966)

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The Diabolical Dr. Z, 1966. Directed by Jess Franco. Starring Estella Blain, Howard Vernon, Mabel Karr, Fernando Montes, Cris Huerta, Jess Franco, and Antonio Jiménez Escribano. SYNOPSIS: After a fatal heart attack kills her father, the daughter of Dr. Z seeks revenge by using her father’s experiments in mind control. The title The Diabolical Dr. […]

Blu-ray Review – The Ambulance (1990)

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The Ambulance, 1990. Directed by Larry Cohen. Starring Eric Roberts, James Earl Jones, Megan Gallagher, Red Buttons, Stan Lee, Janine Turner, and Eric Braeden. SYNOPSIS: A man gets involved in a mystery when a woman he is flirting with collapses and gets picked up by a mysterious ambulance that no one can trace. On the […]

Blu-ray Review – The Island (1985)

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The Island, 1985. Directed by Po-Chih Leong. Starring John Sham, Timothy Zao, Hoi-Lun Au, Lap Ban Chan, Lung Chan, Jing Chen, and Billy Sau Yat Ching. SYNOPSIS: A teacher and six students take a trip to a remote island, and fall foul of the three insane brothers who live there and are looking for a […]

Ralph Bakshi: A Forgotten Pioneer

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Simon Thompson takes a deep dive into the career of pioneering animated filmmaker Ralph Bakshi… This is only tangentially related to the topic at hand but I’m going to draw this parallel anyway; when the great American author Hubert Selby Jr died and a documentary was made about him and one of the talking heads […]

4K Ultra HD Review – Spawn (1997)

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Spawn, 1997. Directed by Mark A.Z. Dippé. Starring Michael Jai White, John Leguizamo, Martin Sheen, Theresa Randle, Melinda Clarke, Miko Hughes, Nicol Williamson, and D.B. Sweeney. SYNOPSIS: A CIA mercenary is double-crossed and killed, returning to Earth as a soldier for the Devil. It may come as a shock to some but there was a […]

Movie Review – Helloween (2025)

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Helloween, 2025. Directed by Phil Claydon. Starring Ronan Summers, Caroline Wilde, Michael Paré, Jeanine Nerissa Sothcott, Tamsin Dean, Tee Blackwood. SYNOPSIS: In 2016, a journalist traces the killer clown craze sweeping the nation back to an imprisoned serial killer who is planning to escape. As a nation, the UK has never done Halloween properly. Yeah, […]

A History of Violence at 20: The Story Behind David Cronenberg’s Modern Masterpiece

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Hasitha Fernando on the story behind A History of Violence as the film celebrates its 20th anniversary… To say A History of Violence is one of David Cronenberg’s most accessible efforts would be correct. However, it would be remiss of me not to describe it as one of the filmmaker’s finest outputs as well. The […]