Blu-Ray and DVD
The Possession of Hannah Grace Doesn’t Possess Its Viewers [Blu-Ray Review]
Most possession flicks end with the exorcism: a mostly triumphant banishing of the thing that’s been bumping in the night and swaying innocent girls away from Puritanical gender norms. (Are the...
Haunted Hospital (Heilstätten) Needs the Infirmary [Blu-Ray Review]
Originality is overrated. The best stories are the ones that execute well. Wes Craven’s classic Scream is a pastiche. With the exception of the Billy/Stu reveal at the end, it borrows every blo...
Suspiria (2018) casts a Powerful but Polarizing Spell [Blu-ray Review]
Suspiria begins in a divided 1977 Berlin, Germany. The film opens with dance student Patricia Hingle (Chloe Grace Moretz) as she is succumbing to madness. Meanwhile, an American dancer named Susie Ban...
Halloween (2018) is a Welcome Return to Form [Blu-Ray Review]
Halloween (2018) picks up forty years after young Laurie Strode faced off against the homicidal Michael Myers. And, after years of incarceration, the masked man is on the loose and ready to settl...
Monster Party is Brutal and Unflinching [DVD Review]
Monster Party sees a trio of thieves posing as waiters to infiltrate a dinner party with the intent of burgling the home in which it is being hosted. What they don’t realize is that the hos...
Evil Dead II 4K DVD and Blu-Ray Combo is Groovy
The Evil Dead series uses a classic horror setup. In the first two films, Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell) and his friends go to a cabin in the woods for a weekend of partying and reading aloud from an a...
Prehysteria! Still Charms With a Fantastic Restoration [Blu-Ray Review]
I’m a longtime Full Moon fan, dating back to the third grade. Once I discovered Puppet Master, it all ballooned from there. When I started diving into the Charles Band filmography though, I was...
Short Night of the Glass Dolls is a Unique Take on the Giallo
Short Night of the Glass Dolls follows Greg (Jean Sorel of A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin), an American journalist working in Prague. Greg’s primary problem is that he is dead (or ap...
Mandy is Metal AF [Blu-Ray Review]
Red and Mandy live a peaceful and pleasant existence in their forest dwelling. But their idyllic way of life is interrupted when a sadistic cult leader becomes obsessed with Mandy and abducts her. Hav...