Lately I’ve been uncovering all these loony theme songs to horror and sci-fi movies from the 50s and 60s on Youtube. Some were actually attached to the films; others were novelty records to promote the movie. But they all are…
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Another batch of loony, celluloid treats on Blu-ray this month, including the phenomenal film noir Nightmare Alley; the deranged spaghetti western Django; a few slasher films from the 80s- Eyes of a Stranger and He Knows You’re Alone; a bizarre…
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Don’t you weary of films and TV procedurals where women are walking down a darkened street only to be abducted by a psycho killer? You know that it’s going to go either two ways, and even a rescue is not…
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I reviewed the Blu-ray release of the staggering box set from Severin– The Dungeon of Andy Milligan, but it wasn’t until the other day that I actually held it in my hot little hands. I have to admit I was…
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Someone recently asked what gives me pleasure these days. I guess it’s a valid question during a time when there seems to be light ahead but everything still feels stuck in place. I have to say what fills me with…
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Devereux Milburn’s macabre, sublimely unsettling film is about a young couple on a camping trip- Sam, an aspiring actor (Sawyer Spielberg) and Rylie (Malin Barr), investigating, for her thesis, a blight on wheat that caused mutations and the death of…
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A batch of loony delights on Blu-ray this month, from Alejandro Jodorowsky’s hallucinogenic Santa Sangre; the outrageous Alex de la Iglesia film The Day of The Beast; even the deliriously enjoyable girl-gang movie Switchblade Sisters. Also, a rare Klaus Kinski–…
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In honor of the new Blu-ray release of Werewolves on Wheels (Code Red) it got me thinking about lycanthropy movies in general. I’ve been a fan of hairy shapeshifters ever since the gypsy hag (Maria Ouspenskaya) warned infected Larry Talbot…
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In this glorious Blu-ray box set from Criterion is seven 4K restorations of the films of the great Hong Kong director Wong Kar-Wai. Included are making-of documentaries, copious interviews with the director and cast, and short films by the director,…
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Criterion really is the gold standard of home media. Aside from some questionably oblique covers, their Blu-rays are all sensational restorations of movies by legendary directors such as Fellini: Bergman; Antonioni; Bunuel; Bresson; Fassbinder; Varda; Renoir; Denis; Powell; Akerman– it’s…
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