WILD EYE BLU RAY RELEASE: Caddy Hack (2023)
The caddies of Old Glory Holes Golf Club are being killed off. Welles Landon (Jim Gordon), the owner, doesn’t want his members to have to see death. There’s also a big tournament coming and the murders would get in the way. Hopefully, personal assistant Ms. Flannager (Ilene Sullivan) and groundskeeper Hambone (Nick Twist) can stop […]
Spagvemberfest 2023 : Face to Face (1967)
Known in the UK as High Plains Killer and in Germany as Hallelujah, The Devil Sends His Regards, Face to Face is the second of three Italian Westerns by Sergio Sollima. He also made Violent City and Devil in the Brain. It was written by two Sergios, Sollima and Donati, who also scripted Orca, Almost Blue and Holocaust 2000. In the […]
ARROW VIDEO BLU RAY RELEASE: The Iron-Fisted Monk (1977)
The first movie directed by Sammo Hung, The Iron-Fisted Monk begins when the title character (Chan Sing) sends Hawker (Sammo Hung) to the Shaolin temple. He tries to run away, as the master (James Tien) is too rough, but is found and undergoes four tests. While he’s continuing to train, he’s wrongly accused of assaulting the […]
KINO LORBER BLU RAY RELEASE: Hardcore (1979)
I’ve been thinking about Hardcore since I watched it. The weird thing is, I can honestly say that I disliked nearly everyone in this movie except for one character yet I am still a fan of this movie. Director and writer Paul Schrader partly based the story on his own experience growing up in the Calvinist […]
SURVIVING ELEMENTS AND DIABOLIK DVD BLU RAY RELEASE: Haunted Samurai (1970)
When the sales copy for the movie promises “the most gory ninja film of its era,” you know I’m going to be ready for it. Haunted Samurai is based on the works of Goseki Kojima, the artist behind Lone Wolf and Cub. Rokuheita Kusanagi (Hideki Takahashi) is given the toughest assignments by his master Yojiro. He […]
ARROW 4K ULTRA HD BLU RAY RELEASE: Last House On the Left (2009)
The rights to The Last House on the Left were picked up by Rogue Pictures in 2006, with the remake being the first film produced by Wes Craven’s newly formed studio Midnight Pictures. The director and writer of the original, Craven wanted to see what the movie could look like with a bigger budget. Eli […]
MILL CREEK SCI-FI CLASSICS: She Gods of Shark Reef (1958)
Directed by Roger Corman and written by Robert Hill (Confessions of an Opium Eater) and Victor Stoloff, this finds brothers Jim (Don Durant) and Chris (Bill Cord) running from a murder charge to the Sulu Sea, where they’re shipwrecked on — you know it — a shark-infested reef. They’re rescued by an all-female society of […]
MILL CREEK SCI-FI CLASSICS: Robot Monster (1953)
Phil Tucker invented a rotary engine known as the CT Surge Turbine that he successfully patented and unsuccessfully tried to sell to the automobile industry as a more efficient alternative to the internal combustion engine. And years after directing movies like this and The Cape Canaveral Monsters, he did actually contribute to some movies as an […]
MILL CREEK SCI-FI CLASSICS: The Galaxy Invader (1985)
In the 1960’s, Don Dohler created an underground comic book called WILD that had contributors like Jay Lynch, Art Spiegelman, Skip Williamson and even R. Crumb. He went on to create the zine Cinemagic, which was written to help filmmakers learn how to make movies, that ran for 11 issues until Starlogbought it. He also published […]
MILL CREEK SCI-FI CLASSICS: First Spaceship on Venus (1960)
Also known as Planet of the Dead and Spaceship Venus Does Not Reply, this is really the East German/Polish film Milcząca Gwiazda / Der Schweigende Stern, which would mean The Silent Star in English. It’s based on Stanislaw Lew’s 1951 novel The Astronauts. The author — who also was the man behind Solaris — was critical of the final film, saying, “It […]
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