ARROW VIDEO BLU RAY RELEASE: Tremors 2: Aftershocks (1996)
Years after the story in Tremors, Val McKee has moved away and married Rhonda LeBeck. Oh well — Kevin Bacon did Apollo 13 instead and Reba McEntire went on tour. As for Earl Basset (Fred Ward), he wasted his money on an ostrich ranch. The good news — I guess — is that the monsters haven’t gone […]
ARROW VIDEO BLU RAY RELEASE: Conan the Destroyer (1984)
You know what they say. If you can’t get John Milius, grab the dude who directed Mandingo, Soylent Green and the Neil Diamond remake version of The Jazz Singer, Richard Fleischer. That’s exactly what Dino and Raffaella De Laurentiis did here. It makes sense, though, as Fleischer had also directed The Vikings, one of the films that had inspired Milius as […]
ARROW VIDEO BLU RAY RELEASE: Conan the Barbarian (1982)
When Robert E. Howard created Conan, it was popular for its time as a pulp character. By the time of his creator’s suicide in 1936, Conan had appeared in 21 complete stories, 17 of which had been published, as well as a number of unfinished tales. After years of the copyright to the character passing around, Lancer released a […]
ARROW VIDEO BOX SET RELEASE: Inside The Mind Of Coffin Joe
I’m obsessed with Coffin Joe — check out the Letterboxd — and the Arrow Video box set is exactly what I wanted: the best quality copies of movies that were made for next to nothing but filled with an incredible level of inspiration. Zé do Caixão or Coffin Joe is José Mojica Marins. The character […]
ARROW VIDEO BOX SET RELEASE: Inside The Mind Of Coffin Joe: When the Gods Fall Asleep (1972)
The sequel to Finis Hominis (The End of Man) finds the good side of José Mojica Marins, Finis Hominis, leaving the mental ward yet again to set the world right. The last time he got out, he almost became a world leader. This time, he wants to do something easier: fix all of the social, […]
Tarot (1973)
I’m going to get it out of my system so this entire article isn’t about me gushing about Sue Lyon, but I am not made of stone. With only two previous acting roles, she was cast in the lead of Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita at just 14 years old. The book’s writer, Vladmir Nabokov, who also wrote […]
Un detective (1969)
Based on the novel Macchie di belletto by Ludovico Dentice, directed by Romolo Guerrieri (The Sweet Body of Deborah) and written by Franco Verucci, Massimo D’Avak and Alberto Silvestri, Un Detective (AKA Detective Belli) stars Franco Nero as Commissioner Belli. He’s a corrupt detective hired by the rich Avvocato Fontana (Adolfo Celi) to look after his son […]
The Secret of Seagull Island (1982)
The TV mini-series Seagull Island is 3 hours and 36 minutes long. The movie that they hacked it into is an hour and forty two minutes. As you can imagine, a lot gets lost, but this is not a unique thing. Yor Hunter from the Future and The Scorpion With Two Tails were also originally made as TV miniseries […]
La strana storia di Olga ‘O’ (1995)
Olga’s (Serena Grandi, Delirium) life is one that will forever be damaged by childhood trauma, as her father killed himself before her eyes. Now, along with her husband Paolo (David Brandon), she is finally going home. This starts with a hell of a dream sequence, as Olga remembers her mother covered in blood and her […]
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