Reviews
The First Purge [Blu-Ray Review]
The First Purge finds outspoken community activist, Nya (Lex Scott Davis) thrown into the middle of the chaos when her younger brother, Isaiah (Joivan Wade) opts to participate in the i...
Halloween 4K Ultra HD Is A Crisper, Cleaner Film Experience [Review]
Much like the star Boogeyman Michael Myers himself, new and improved re-releases of Halloween will never die; and also much like The Shape’s numerous screen re-appearances, DVD after DVD and Blu...
Black Site Has No Reason To Exist [Frightfest 2018 Review]
Black Site is described on IMDb as “80’s inspired John Carpenteresque Action (sic),” in a paragraph confidently attributed to its writer-director, Tom Paton. Considering The Void is ...
Death Kiss does Chuck Bronson proud [Review]
Death Kiss, the latest from Oakland-based auteur Rene Perez — the same guy who gave us The Burning Dead, Prey For Death and no less than three Playing with Dolls features to date — is a ...
Crystal Eyes Is A Lurid, Garish, Giallo [Frightfest 2018 Review]
Crystal Eyes is a giallo movie set in Buenos Aires with dialogue entirely in Spanish, as befits that part of the world. It immediately goes against everything we know about giallo movies, and yet the ...
Wolfman’s Got Nards Rules So Hard [Frightfest 2018 Review]
How would you define a cult movie? Is it something like The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which found legions of fans thanks to years of playing as a midnight movie in the grungiest theatre in NYC? Or ma...
Climax is a Cinematic Headache [Frightfest 2018 Review]
Climax sees the return of cinema’s greatest self-proclaimed enfant terrible, Gaspar Noé, following the oddly un-sexy 3D extravaganza that was 2015’s Love. It’s his best reviewed...
Exorcist II Pales in Comparison to its Predecessor [Blu-ray Review]
Exorcist II: The Heretic sees The Catholic Church sending Father Lamont on a mission to find out exactly what happened to Father Merrin and uncover the details surrounding his untimely demise. Regan h...
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich is a Fun and Gory Redux [4K Blu-Ray Review]
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich follows recently-divorced Edgar (Thomas Lennon) as he, his boss/friend Markowitz (Nelson Franklin), and Edgar’s new girlfriend Ashley (Jenny Pellicer) make...