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The Blob (Shout! Factory) Blu-ray Review
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Published on 12-12-2019 09:12 AM
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Released by: Shout! Factory
Released on: October 29^th, 2019.
Director: Chuck Russell
Cast: Kevin Dillon, Shawnee Smith, Donovan Leitch, Candy Clark
Year: 1988
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The Blob – Movie Review

Chuck Russell's 1988 remake of The Blob (co-written by Russell and Frank Darabont) takes place in the small Colorado town of Arbeville where everyone at the local high school is consumed with preparing for various sports events. So consumed are they and all around them, that no one seems to notice when a meteor comes hurtling out of the sky and lands nearby. ...

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The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith (Kino Lorber) Blu-ray Review
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Published on 12-11-2019 09:22 AM
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Released by: Kino Lorber
Released on: September 17th, 2019.
Director: Fred Schepisi
Cast: Tommy Lewis, Freddy Reynolds, Ray Barrett, Jack Thompson, Angela Punch McGregor, Steve Dodds, Peter Carroll
Year: 1978
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The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith – Movie Review:

Writer/director Fred Schepisi’s adaptation of Thomas Keneally’s novel (which was based on the true story of a bushranger named Jimmy Governor) introduces us to the titular Jimmie Blacksmith (Tommy Lewis) a young Aboriginal man of mixed heritage ...

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Handsome Dick Manitoba – Born In The Bronx (Liberation Hall Records) CD Review
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Published on 12-11-2019 09:21 AM
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Handsome Dick Manitoba – Born In The Bronx (Liberation Hall Records) CD Review
Released by: Liberation Hall
Released on: November 8th, 2019.
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Gwendoline (Severin Films) Blu-ray Review
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Published on 12-10-2019 09:20 AM
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Released by: Severin Films
Released on: November 19th, 2019.
Director: Just Jaeckin
Cast: Tawny Kitaen, Brent Huff, Zabou, Bernadette Lafont, Jean Rougerie, Roland Amstutz
Year: 1984
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Gwendoline – Movie Review:

Just Jaeckin has had an interesting career and should be a better-known name to Eurocult fans than he is. Not only did he direct the picture in question here, but the guy also made Lady Chatterly's Lover, The Story Of O and the original Emmanuelle to boot. So, what's the deal with Gwendoline, also known as The Perils Of Gwendoline In The Land ...

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Kiss Zombies #2 (Dynamite Entertainment) Comic Review
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Published on 12-10-2019 09:18 AM
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Kiss Zombies #2 (Dynamite Entertainment) Comic Review
Released by: Dynamite Entertainment
Released on: December 11th, 2019.
Written by: Ethan Sacks
Illustrated by: Rodney Buchemi
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The Fly Collection (Shout! Factory) Blu-ray Review
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Published on 12-09-2019 09:33 AM
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Released by: Shout! Factory
Released on: December 10th, 2019.
Director: Kurt Neumann, Edward Burnds, Don Sharp, David Cronenberg, Chris Walas
Cast: David Hedison, Vincent Price, Patricia Owens, David Frankham, Brett Halsey, Brian Donlevy, George Baker, Carole Ray, Yvette Rees, Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz, Eric Stoltz, Daphne Zuniga, Lee Richardson
Year: 1958/1959/1965/1986/1989
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The Fly Collection – Movie Review:

The Fly was a hit when it debuted in 1958, spawning two sequels in the years to come and then, in the eighties, a remake and a follow up to that remake. Shout! Factory has wisely decided to collect all five of those pictures and release them in an extras-laden boxed set aptly titled The Fly Collection.

The Fly:

Andre (David Hedison, billed as Al Hedison) is a brilliant inventor whose latest endeavor is to perfect a pair of teleportation pods that he’s been working on for some time. His lovely wife Helene (Patricia Owens) and his brother François (Vincent Price) stand by him. Andre makes progress when he’s able to send inanimate objects from one pod to the next, but things get complicated from there on out when he starts experimenting with living things.

When Andre is sufficiently confident that the teleportation pods are safe, he decides to use himself as a human guinea pig. What he doesn’t realize, when he gets into the first pod, is that a fly has gone in with him. When he comes out on the other side, he’s not longer human and has a fly’s head on a man’s body. Likewise, the fly changes, having a human head on a fly’s body. Things get considerably darker from here on in, with Inspector Charas (Herbert Marshall) eventually becoming involved and trying to sort out what exactly has happened.

“Once it was human… even as you and I! The monster created by atoms ...

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Women In Prison (Impulse Pictures) DVD Review
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Published on 12-08-2019 11:02 AM
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Released by: Impulse Pictures
Released on: December 10th, 2019.
Director: Nobuaki Shirai
Cast: Erina Miyai, Natsuko Yashiro, Toru Ibuki
Year: 1978
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Women In Prison– Movie Reviews:

Nobuaki Shirai, the man behind Nun Story: Frustration In Black, made the aptly titled Women In Prison for Nikkatsu in 1978. When this sixty-nine-minute sleaze-fest opens, we see a bunch of weird mannequins! A woman in a bridal outfit kisses one and says ‘thank you for everything’ before dancing around a bit. A man arrives and apologizes for being late. ...

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Furie (Well Go USA) Blu-ray Review
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Published on 12-07-2019 10:22 AM
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Released by: Well Go USA
Released on: June 25th, 2019.
Director: Le-Van Kiet
Cast: Veronica Ngo, Le-Van Kiet, Van Kiet Le, Mai Cat Vi
Year: 2019
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Furie – Movie Review:

Hai Phuong (Veronica Ngo) has gang ties. She works as a debt collector, paying visits to those late on their loan payments where she uses her martial arts abilities – as a child she was taught vovinam by her father - to coerce them to pay up. She also has a ...

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Parasite (Kino Lorber) Blu-ray Review
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Published on 12-06-2019 11:00 AM
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Released by: Kino Lorber
Released on: October 22nd, 2019.
Director: Charles Band
Cast: Demi Moore, Robert Glaudini, Cherie Currie
Year: 1982
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Parasite – Movie Review:

Paul Dean (Robert Glaudini of Chameleon and The Alchemist) is a scientist in a post-apocalyptic world on the run from the Merchants, a sinister government organization, that want the parasite living inside of him for their own evil purposes. He ends up in a small ...

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The Stranger Beside Me (Mill Creek Entertainment) Blu-ray Review
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Published on 12-05-2019 09:21 AM
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Released by: Mill Creek Entertainment
Released on: July 9th, 2019.
Director: Paul Shapiro
Cast: Billy Campbell, Barbara Hershey, Kevin Dunn, Suki Kaiser, Brenda James, Jay Brazeau
Year: 2003
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The Stranger Beside Me – Movie Review:

Paul Shapiro’s 2003 made for TV movie The Stranger Beside me tells the story of Ann Rule (Barbara Hershey). She’s a middle-aged former police officer who know makes a living as ...

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An American Werewolf In London (Arrow Video) Blu-ray Review
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Published on 12-04-2019 09:18 AM
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Released by: Arrow Video
Released on: October 29th, 2019.
Director: John Landis
Cast: David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne, John Woodvine, Don McKillop, Paul Kember
Year: 1981
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An American Werewolf In London – Movie Review:

One of those rare horror-comedy hybrid films that actually works really, really well, John Landis' An American Werewolf In London remains a textbook example of just how well ‘funny’ can mix with ‘scary’ effectively when given a smart script, a talented director and a strong cast.

The film begins with two American ...

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Monster Dog (Camera Obscura) Blu-ray Review
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Published on 12-03-2019 09:20 AM
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Released by: Camera Obscura
Released on: November, 2019.
Director: Claudio Fragasso
Cast: Alice Cooper, Victoria Vera, Carlos Santurio, Ricardo Palacios, Pepita James
Year: 1984
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Monster Dog – Movie Review:

What do you get when you combine the directing skills of Claudio Fragasso, the man best known for Troll 2, and the acting and musical talents of Alice Cooper? Why, 1984’s Monster Dog, that’s what! When the film begins we’re treated to the latest rock video from Vincent Raven (Cooper, clearly dubbed ...

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Silver Bullet (Shout! Factory) Blu-ray Review
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Published on 12-02-2019 09:20 AM
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Released by: Shout! Factory
Released on: December 17th, 2019.
Director: Daniel Attias
Cast: Wendy Walker, Terry O'Quinn, Everett McGill, Corey Haim, Gary Busey, Megan Follows, Bill Smitrovich
Year: 1985
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Silver Bullet – Movie Review:

Set in the small town of Tarker’s Mill, Maine in the summer of 1975, Silver Bullet (loosely based on the Stephen King/Bernie Wrightson collaboration Cycle Of The Werewolf) opens with the murder of a railroad worker, his severed head found not too far from his body. The cops investigate ...

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Nurse Girls' Dorm: Shamed Angel (Impulse Pictures) DVD Review
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Published on 12-01-2019 10:00 AM
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Released by: Impulse Pictures
Released on: December 10th, 2019.
Director: Yasuhiro Horiuchi
Cast: Tomomi Segawa, Ai Kobayashi, Mami Ogawa, Shirô Shimomoto
Year: 1987
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Nurse Girls' Dorm: Shamed Angel – Movie Reviews:

This sixty-three-minute Nikkatsu production from 1987, directed by Yasuhiro Horiuchi, opens at an amusement park under a ferries wheel. A young woman watches a child play, giggles to herself, and then walks home to the female dorm at the Shirayuri General ...

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Wild In The Country (Twilight Time Releasing) Blu-ray Review
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Published on 11-30-2019 11:27 AM
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Released by: Twilight Time Releasing
Released on: August 20th, 2019.
Director: Philip Dunne
Cast: Tuesday Weld, John Ireland, Elvis Presley, Hope Lange, Millie Perkins, Gary Lockwood, Rafer Johnson
Year: 1961
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Wild In The Country – Movie Review:

In 1961’s Wild In The Country, directed by Philip Dunne, the late, great Elvis Presley plays a young man named Glenn Tyler who has recently been let out of prison ...

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Spookies (Vinegar Syndrome) Blu-ray Review
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Published on 11-29-2019 01:05 AM
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Released by: Vinegar Syndrome
Released on: November 29th, 2019.
Director: Thomas Doran, Brendan Faulkner and Eugenie Joseph
Cast: Peter Dain, Nick Gionta, Joan Ellen Delaney, Peter Iasillo, Charlotte Alexandra, Anthony Valbiro, Kim Merrill, Lisa Friede, Soo Paek, Maria Pechukas, Felix Ward
Year: 1985
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Spookies – Movie Review:

Produced by the same Michael Lee who founded infamous UK video label VIPCO, 1985’s Spookies, is a bit of a mess. It’s a beautiful mess in many ways, but a mess nevertheless and that’s likely due to the fact that it began life as a movie called Twisted Souls. Eventually, however, co-writers/directors Brendan Faulkner and Thomas Doran, along with co-writer/producer Frank M. Farel, were given the boot and the film was re-titled Spookies. Eugenie Joseph was brought in to replace them and was responsible for not only shooting and adding new material but for re-editing what her predecessors ...

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The Blood On Satan’s Claw (Severin Films) Blu-ray Review
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Published on 11-29-2019 01:04 AM
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Released by: Severin Films
Released on: November 29th, 2019.
Director: Piers Haggard
Cast: Linda Hayden, Patrick Wymark, Barry Andrews, Michelle Dotrice, Wendy Padbury, Anthony Ainley, Charlotte Mitchell, Tamara Ustinov, Simon Williams
Year: 1970
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The Blood On Satan’s Claw – Movie Review:

Probably the best-known film of the minimal output from the short-lived Tigon Studios, Piers Haggard’s Blood On Satan’s Claw has maintained a solid cult following since its release in 1970. With folk horror having had a bit of a resurgence in the last few years with titles like The Witch and Midsommar doing well at the box office, it would seem a more than appropriate title to revisit – particularly ...

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The Candy Snatchers (Vinegar Syndrome) Blu-ray Review
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Published on 11-29-2019 01:03 AM
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Released by: Vinegar Syndrome
Released on: November 29th, 2019.
Director: Guerdon Trueblood
Cast: Tiffany Bolling, Ben Piazza, Susan Sennett, Brad David, Vince Martorano, Delores Dorn, Christopher Trueblood
Year: 1973
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The Candy Snatchers – Movie Review:

Flat out balls-to-the-wall grindhouse/exploitation filmmaking collides head on with a crime noir aesthetic in Gordon Trueblood's 1973 drive in hit, The Candy Snatchers. The film was never before given a legitimate home video release anywhere since its theatrical run in the early seventies until Subversive Cinema brought it to DVD ...

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Savage Dawn (Vinegar Syndrome) Blu-ray Review
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Published on 11-29-2019 01:02 AM
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Released by: Vinegar Syndrome
Released on: November 29th, 2019.
Director: Simon Nuchtern
Cast: George Kennedy, Richard Lynch, Karen Black, Lance Henriksen, Claudia Udy, Wiliam Forsythe
Year: 1985
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Savage Dawn – Movie Review:

Savage Dawn, directed by Simon Nuchtern and released in 1985, got a VHS release via Media (with some pretty bad ass cover art) but never did make it to DVD – which is kind of surprising given the pedigree of popular B-movie actors that appear in the film’s cast. Wait, no… that’s not ...

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The Beast In The Cellar (Severin Films) Blu-ray Review
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Published on 11-29-2019 01:02 AM
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Released by: Severin Films
Released on: November 29th, 2019.
Director: James Kelley
Cast: Beryl Reid, Flora Robson, John Hamill, Tessa Wyatt, T.P. McKenna, John Kelland
Year: 1971
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The Beast In The Cellar – Movie Review:

Produced by Tigon Films and released theatrically in 1971, The Beast In The Cellar introduces us to Ellie (Beryl Reid) and Joyce (Flora Robson) Ballantyne, two spinster sisters who share a home in the British countryside. They live alone together, neither having ever married or had children, ...

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