The Comedy of Terrors, 1963. Directed by Jacques Tourneur. Starring Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone, Joyce Jameson, Beverly Hills and Alan DeWitt. SYNOPSIS: A scheming undertaker resorts to extreme measures to bring in some new business in order to pay his rent. Both comedy and terror are two of the hardest genres […]
DVD Review – Grace: The Possession (2014)
Grace: The Possession, 2014. Directed by Jeff Chan. Starring Alexia Fast, Lin Shaye, Alan Dale, Brett Dier, Joel David Moore and Alexis Knapp. SYNOPSIS: A virginal Catholic teenager leaves her religious grandmother’s house to go to college and soon finds that drink and drugs are the least of her worries. The trouble with making a possession film […]
DVD Review – Retribution (2014)
Retribution, 2014 Directed by Kat Candler. Starring Aaron Paul, Juliette Lewis, Josh Wiggins, Deke Garner and Jonny Mars. SYNOPSIS: An emotionally distant widower tries to reconnect with his wayward teenage son after the authorities split the family up. For anybody with young children writer/director Kat Candler’s Retribution (a.k.a. Hellion) is a film that touches on […]
DVD Review – God’s Pocket (2014)
God’s Pocket, 2014. Directed by John Slattery. Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christina Hendricks, Richard Jenkins, John Turturro and Eddie Marsan. SYNOPSIS: A low-level petty criminal tries to cover up the suspicious death of his no-good stepson while his wife tries to uncover the truth with the help of a drunken newspaper journalist. In his final […]
Blu-ray Review – The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963)
The Girl Who Knew Too Much, 1963. Directed by Mario Bava. Starring Letícia Román, John Saxon, Valentina Cortese and Titti Tomaino. SYNOPSIS: A young tourist becomes involved in a police investigation after witnessing a murder by a notorious serial killer. His final black-and-white production, Mario Bava’s The Girl Who Knew Too Much sees the Italian […]
DVD Review – Terrifier (2017)
Terrifier, 2017. Directed by Damien Leone. Starring Catherine Corcoran, Jenna Kanell, Margaret Reed, David Howard Thornton, Michael Leavy, and Katie Maguire. SYNOPSIS: It’s Halloween night and a psychopathic clown terrorizes the streets, homing in on three young women. A success on the festival circuit last year, Damien Leone’s Terrifier certainly hit at the right time, […]
Blu-ray Review – Amazon Women On The Moon (1987)
Amazon Women on the Moon, 1987. Directed by John Landis/Joe Dante/Carl Gottlieb/Robert K. Weiss/Peter Horton. Starring Rosanna Arquette, Michelle Pfeiffer, Arsenio Hall, Peter Horton, Griffin Dunne, Joe Pantoliano, Forrest J. Ackerman, Sybil Danning, Henry Silva, Carrie Fisher, Steve Guttenberg, Jenny Agutter, Dick Miller, Paul Bartel, and Russ Meyer. SYNOPSIS: An anthology of comedy shorts and […]
DVD Review – Score: A Film Music Documentary (2016)
Score: A Film Music Documentary, 2016. Directed by Matt Schrader. Featuring Hans Zimmer, Danny Elfman, John Williams, James Cameron, Trent Reznor, Quincy Jones, and Howard Shore. SYNOPSIS: A documentary detailing the role of the film score and the people who create them. Reviewing a documentary can often be a futile exercise, more often than not […]
Blu-ray Review – Images (1972)
Images, 1972. Directed by Robert Altman. Starring Susannah York, Cathryn Harrison, Hugh Millais, Rene Auberjonois, and Marcel Bozzuffi. SYNOPSIS: A schizophrenic housewife has visions of different people in her life and starts to kill them off, not being sure if they are real or not. Essentially, Images is a horror film from a director not […]
Blu-ray Review – Der Todesking (1990)
Der Todesking, 1990. Directed by Jörg Buttgereit. Starring Hermann Kopp, Heinrich Ebber, Michael Krause, Susanne Betz, Eva-Maria Kurz, and Andreas Doehler. SYNOPSIS: Seven short stories based around the notion of suicide, all from the director of Nekromantik. If ever there was a call for a movie about suicide – and why wouldn’t there be? – […]
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