This is a great month for home media- from vintage Orson Welles, rare Jean Cocteau, Robert Aldrich, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Lucio Fulci, not to mention Dennis Hopper’s controversial (never-before-on-home-video) The Last Movie and a tribute to peroxide screen vixen…
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Sex has always been an undercurrent in vampire movies. When Christopher Lee (as Dracula) chowed down on a new victim on screen there was always a hint of orgasmic pleasure. And when censorship relaxed, filmmakers exploited the breasts and blood…
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Just in time for Halloween- a great batch of horror and suspense-filled Blu-rays are getting released on an unsuspecting public. Trilogy Of Terror (Kino Lorber) A great 1975 TV movie by Dan Curtis based on several short stories by Richard…
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This month there are Blu-ray releases of movies I never ever expected to have, or own, and especially in such stellar, digitally remastered condition. I wake up in the middle of the night and shake my head thinking that the…
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To me, one of the high points this summer is the Blu-ray releases of two great William Castle films by Scream Factory. The Tingler (Scream Factory) A great 1959 William Castle film starring Vincent Price as a doctor studying “fear”…
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“Fix us a dvink,” says Renee Harmon, with her molasses-thick German accent, in the hilariously inept action movie Lady Street Fighter, given an astonishing Blu-ray restoration by AGFA. She plays Linda Allen, cop and kick-boxer who has made a date…
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What can you say about a 1972 film concerning a pretty, blonde L.A. socialite (who’s secretly a necrophiliac) which also co-stars Lyle Waggoner (of The Carol Burnett Show fame)? Well that’s what you get, and more, in the gloriously deranged…
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Dietrich & Von Sternberg In Hollywood (Criterion) A staggering box set of director Josef von Sternberg’s six films with his muse- Marlene Dietrich. There’s Morocco (1930), where the gorgeous Dietrich is singing in a Moroccan club in male drag and…
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Female Trouble (Criterion) John Waters’ hilariously prophetic dark comedy about the life and death of high school hellcat Dawn Davenport (Divine). From rebellious teen, to dissatisfied wife and mother, to her fateful meeting with beauty shop owners Donald & Donna…
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Gun Crazy (Warner Archive) There are film noir films and then there is Gun Crazy (1950), Joseph H. Lewis’s brilliant criminal couple-on-the-run film. It starred John Dall as a crack marksman who gets involved with a beautiful, but deadly, carnival…
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