A Euro art-horror evocation of the Elizabeth Bathory legend filtered through a gothic libertine lens, Daughters of Darkness is one of the most gorgeous horror stories of its era (or any other for that matter). This sumptuous tale unfolds around ...
Read More »976 – Evil (1988) Eureka Entertainment
Though I’m a complete sucker for this kind of thing, you could understand how even by the standards of 1988, the year that also bought us Ghoulies II (1988), Slaughterhouse Rock (1988), and Rabid Grannies (1988), that 976 – Evil ...
Read More »Maniac (1980): Blue Underground’s 4K Release
Blue Underground have released a stellar new 4K disc of William Lustig’s cult classic slasher, Maniac. The movie stars character actor Joe Spinell as Frank Zito, an Italian-American serial killer residing in New York City who murders and scalps young ...
Read More »VIOLENT EMOTIONS – A look at Severin Films’ fantastic new Blu-ray of Lucio Fulci’s ÆNIGMA
Following a flurry of activity in the early-to-mid ’Eighties, Lucio Fulci continued to endure—at least, to some extent—even as the once-prosperous, by-then-financially-floundering Italian film industry began to implode on itself, with ever-dwindling budgets and fewer and fewer productions being made. ...
Read More »House by the Cemetery (1981): Blue Underground’s 4K Release
Blue Underground have shot for the moon and hit the stars with the image quality on their House by the Cemetery 4K disc.
Read More »Zombie (1980): Blue Underground’s 4K Release
The myth of the reanimated corpse, the zombie, has its worm-ridden roots in the folklore of 17th century Haiti. Though the island was originally claimed by Columbus in 1492 and named Hispaniola, French control started in 1660, when it was ...
Read More »Kino Lorber’s Murder by Decree (1979)
Following three forays into the horror genre — Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things (1972), Deathdream and Black Christmas (both 1974) — filmmaker Bob Clark helmed this 1979 fusion of Victorian gothic, a political thriller, and horror tale. An ex-pat ...
Read More »Classic Horror on Disc: Scream Factory’s Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974)
Disc Details Scream Factory. Region A. Feature: 91 mins. Aspect ratio 1.85:1. The Movie In the ‘70s when Hammer Films were desperately heading in new directions in search of box office gold in an increasingly competitive genre film landscape, scribe and ...
Read More »“You’re buying a lot of trouble here!” – A look at Ivan Passer’s criminally neglected Law and Disorder (1974)
Highly underrated almost to the point of complete obscurity—Ivan Passer’s footloose-and-fancy-free New York City-based crime comedy Law and Disorder (1974) stars Carroll O’Connor and Ernest Borgnine as Willie and Cy, a couple of lifelong friends who decide to take a ...
Read More »“They’re dead!” – Severin’s new Blu-ray of Revenge of the Living Dead Girls gets dissected.
Poisoned milk, corporate espionage, naked girls, and the living dead are the principal elements that attempt to coalesce themselves into a cohesive, coherent narrative in Pierre B. Reinhard’s Revenge of the Living Dead Girls (1986), which, despite the subject matter, ...
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