KINO LORBER BLU RAY RELEASE: The Card Player (2004)
EDITOR’S NOTE: We originally wrote about this movie back on September 15, 2021. Now, Kino Lorber has released it on blu ray, along with audio commentary by Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson, interviews with director Dario Argento, set designer Antonello Geleng and actress Fiore Argento. There are also trailers and your choice of watching this […]
Scream Blacula Scream (1973)
If you’re trying to be the king of voodoo, don’t bring the bones of Prince Mamuwalde back to life. Maybe voodoo queen Mama Loa knew what she was doing when she chose Lisa Fortier (Pam Grier) as her successor instead of her son Willis (Richard Lawson, Poltergeist). Sadly, this movie has murky lighting, bad direction and […]
Blacula (1972)
William Crane mostly worked in TV, but we always will have him to thank for directing the first African-American vampire movie (and the first Jekyll and Hyde movie for a black audience, Dr. Black and Mr. Hyde). Prince Mamuwalde (William Marshall) represents the Nigerian Ibani African nation as they ask Count Dracula (Charles Macaulay) to help […]
Blackenstein (1973)
Look, this movie is horrible, but when I’m happy that it exists. That sentence could pretty much sum up nearly every movie that I write about on this site, right? Writer and producer Frank R. Saletri had also planned Black the Ripper and while I’m confessing, I will say that I would totally watch that movie […]
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957)
Five months after American-International Picture’s I Was a Teenage Werewolf, Herbert L. Strock (The Crawling Hand) directed this follow-up, which has British professor Professor Frankenstein (Whit Bissell, who was also the mad scientist in AIP’s first teenager as a monster movie) coming to America to assemble his monster from the bodies of teenagers who didn’t […]
KINO LORBER BLU RAY RELEASE: Double Door (1934)
Based on the 1933 Broadway play of the same name by Elizabeth A. McFadden, Double Door is a pre-Hays Code directed by Charles Vidor (Gilda, Blind Alley). Victoria Van Brett (Mary Morris, who had a long stage career but this was her only film) rules her family, even destroying the relationships that her brother Rip (Kent Taylor, Brain […]
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