Currently, Warner Home Video is going through a phase in which a number of titles that had originally been released when DVD was first introduced are now re-released to the format. DVD as a platform has grown significantly in the past three years and to [...]
As a child during the 1960s I spent many wonderful nights watching horror movies on the local Chiller Theater-type TV shows. I was an easy audience back then: if it had a monster or if someone was being chased or got melted or transformed in any way, I [...]
Can a film get any more obscure than this? I doubt it. Trimark Home Video’s release ’Hide And Seek’ is so obscure, you can’t even find an entry to the film in the Internet Movie Database. This is quite peculiar given the fact that Daryl Hannah, [...]
Sandwiched between the paranoia classic ’The Manchurian Candidate’ and the Faustian shocker ’Seconds, ’ John Frankenheimer’s gripping political thriller ’Seven Days In May’ debuts on DVD with a spiffy looking transfer and a thoroughly [...]
Credited as the impetus for the hit television show "Saturday Night Live, " "The Kentucky Fried Movie" is actually less of a movie than an assortment of irreverent skits and hilarious nonsense. It feels like an American version of [...]
’Felicia’s Journey’ is a passionate thriller located in England that tells the story of a serial killer in a very unique way. Played by Bob Hoskins, Joseph Hilditch is an eccentric chef whose path crosses with that of Felicia, a young woman on the [...]
"The Guns of Navarone" is widely hailed as one of the greatest adventure films of all time. And it’s no wonder, considering the wealth of talent that was involved in its production. Starring Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn; [...]
When we think of genre films from Japan, we generally think of rubber monster suits, "Pokemon", or Anime. Well, apparently Godzilla, Pikachu, and Akira are all out of town, because Synapse Films is bringing us the darker side of Japanese film [...]
As we all know, genre-cycles come and go in Hollywood. In the early ’80s, there was an insurgence of mythical fantasy films, which came to be known as "sword & sorcery" movies. This trend was no doubt influenced by the popularity of the [...]
Lately, it has seemed that I am a magnet for bizarre films from Europe. But, at least my latest offering isn’t as obscure as some of the other recent films. Many horror fans caught ’Possession’ on video when it was first released by Vestron in the [...]
