It is with a heavy heart I report the passing of 83-year-old Brazilian underground filmmaker and horror legend- Jose Mojica Marins, aka “Coffin Joe.” Usually dressed in a top hat and black cape with outrageously long fingernails, he made a series…
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There are several obscure, crackpot films that I love to turn others on to. But how could I ever imagine one of my favorites- Hollywood Horror House, a twisted late-entry horror-hag film starring acting legend Miriam Hopkins, John Garfield Jr.…
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Boy, they are plenty of cinematic Valentines available on Blu-ray this month. From the uncut version of the well-loved slasher My Bloody Valentine to a rare, crackpot Serge Gainsbourg film starring Joe Dallesandro & Jane Birkin. There’s trash classics Kitten…
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As Valentine’s Day approaches a million lists of the “most romantic films” appear online. Don’t be conned. An Affair To Remember stinks. And many medical professionals agree that love is a psychological disorder anyway. Why do you think it’s called…
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What is it about crime and gay porn stars that fascinates me so? Perhaps it’s that these two particular and sordid subject matters together in my mind create an unusually intoxicating bouquet of evil? Or maybe I’m just a sick…
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In Richard Stanley’s brilliant, nightmarish, hallucinatory version of a H. P. Lovecraft story, a meteorite falls from the sky outside Nathan Gardner’s (Nicolas Cage) remote woodland Arkham farmhouse. Gardner lives there with his wife (Joley Richardson), their three children…
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What a way to begin the new year for Blu-ray lovers! Maria Montez on Blu-ray! Doctor Cyclops! All About My Mother! The Fugitive Kind! The Great McGinty! The controversial Lars Von Trier movie The House That Jack Built uncut!…
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One of the more exciting recent discoveries is Severin’s release of the Blu-ray & DVD of the rare 1967 Russian Horror Fantasy- Viy. This weird, wonderful film was never theatrically released in the States at the time, and only…
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I try not to look back in anger when it comes to films. Fortunately, movies I dislike seem to magically delete in my memory as the year goes on. But there are still some stinkers whose odor lingers on.…
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When you’re watching a movie every once-in-a-while a minor character will just jump off the screen. It’s usually because of how good the actor is at taking a supporting character and breathing originality and fire into the role. Since…
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