Climax, 2018. Directed by Gaspar Noé. Starring Sofia Boutella, Romain Guillermic, Souheila Yacoub, Kiddy Smile, and Sharleen Temple. SYNOPSIS: A group of dancers rehearsing in an empty school building have their drink spiked with LSD, resulting in hellish consequences. ‘Escalation’ is a word that gets used quite a lot in film but there aren’t many […]
Blu-ray Review – Dave Made a Maze (2017)
Dave Made a Maze, 2017. Directed by Bill Watterson. Starring Meera Rohit Kumbhani, Nick Thune, Adam Busch, Stephanie Allynne, Scott Krinsky, and James Urbaniak. SYNOPSIS: When Dave gets lost in the cardboard labyrinth he built in his front room his friends have to go in and rescue him, encountering a strange world of cardboard monsters […]
DVD Review – One Cut of the Dead (2017)
One Cut of the Dead, 2017. Directed by Shin’ichirô Ueda. Starring Takayuki Hamatsu, Yuzuki Akiyama, Harumi Shuhama, Kazuaki Nagaya. SYNOPSIS: A film crew making a zombie movie in an abandoned World War II facility are attacked by real zombies. They say you know a genre has peaked when the parodies start appearing. In the case […]
Blu-ray Review – Waterworld (1995)
Waterworld, 1995. Directed by Kevin Reynolds. Starring Kevin Costner, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Dennis Hopper, Gerard Murphy, Robert Joy, Sean Whalen, Zakes Mokae, and Tina Majorino. SYNOPSIS: In a dystopian future where the polar ice caps have melted and flooded the planet, a mutated man with gills fights to survive against marauding gangs. 1995’s Waterworld may seem […]
DVD Review – Backtrace (2018)
Backtrace, 2018. Directed by Brian A. Miller. Starring Sylvester Stallone, Matthew Modine, Meadow Williams, Ryan Guzman, Jenna Willis, and Christopher McDonald. SYNOPSIS: Seven years after a botched bank robbery the sole surviving robber is given a drug to help him remember where the cash was buried. It is probably fair to say that Sylvester Stallone’s […]
Blu-ray Review – Final Score (2018)
Final Score, 2018. Directed by Scott Mann. Starring Dave Bautista, Pierce Brosnan, Lara Peake, Ray Stevenson, Martyn Ford, Alexandra Dinu, Craig Conway, Amit Shah, and Ralph Brown. SYNOPSIS: A former soldier must rescue his niece when the football stadium they are in is taken over by terrorists. Remember that time back in the late ’80s/early […]
Blu-ray Review – The Cooler (2003)
The Cooler, 2003. Directed by Wayne Kramer. Starring William H. Macy, Maria Bello, Alec Baldwin, Paul Sorvino, M.C. Gainey, Ron Livingston, Shawn Hatosy, and Arthur J. Nascarella. SYNOPSIS: An unlucky casino ‘cooler’ working to pay off a debt to his brutal boss falls in love with a waitress but his boss won’t let him be […]
Blu-ray Review – When a Stranger Calls – Limited Edition Box Set
When a Stranger Calls – Limited Edition Box Set Directed by Fred Walton. Starring Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Rutanya Alda, Charles Durning, Tony Beckley, Gene Lythgow, and Jill Schoelen. SYNOPSIS: Limited edition Blu-ray box set featuring the original 1979 When a Stranger Calls and its 1993 sequel. This year in the horror genre it’s all […]
Blu-ray Review – Orgies of Edo (1969)
Orgies of Edo, 1969. Directed by Teruo Ishii. Starring Teruo Yoshida, Toyozô Yamamoto, Masumi Tachibana, Akira Ishihama, and Mitsuko Aoi. SYNOPSIS: Anthology featuring three stories revolving around the punishment and torture of women set during Japan’s Gentoku era. During the late ‘60/early ‘70s a sub-genre of Japanese cinema called pinky violence came to prominence, with […]
FrightFest Presents Review – Secret Santa (2018)
Secret Santa, 2018. Directed by Adam Marcus. Starring A Leslie Kies, Michael Rady, Drew Lynch, Debra Sullivan, John Gilbert, and Pat Destro. SYNOPSIS: A dysfunctional family turn on each other at Christmas after somebody spikes the punch. Adam Marcus is a filmmaker known primarily to horror fans for contributing to two franchise turkeys, namely Texas […]