ARROW BLU RAY RELEASE: Tomie (1999)
Manga creator Junji Ito grew up in a house where he was afraid to go to the bathroom, as it was at the end of a long underground tunnel filled with water crickets. While working as a dental technician, he was drawing at night and submitted a story to a magazine called Monthly Halloween that would […]
ARROW VIDEO 4K ULTRA UHD AND BLU RAY RELEASE: Elvira Mistress of the Dark (1988)
After Easy Money, Saturday Night Live veteran James Signorelli directed one more film. This one — starring Cassandra Peterson as her Elvira character. In 1981, six years after Sinister Seymour was off the air, the producers of LA’s Fright Night decided to do another show and asked Vampira — Maila Nurmi — to help them with the project. There were […]
ARROW VIDEO 4K ULTRA HD AND BLU RAY RELEASE: The Invasion (2007)
Warner Brothers hired David Kajganich to write they wanted to be a straight-forward remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but Kajganich changed the script to reflect contemporary times. I believe that each generation gets the body snatchers that it deserves, from the Cold War McCarthy menace of the 1950s, the end of the world […]
ARROW VIDEO 4K ULTRA UHD AND BLU RAY RELEASE: A Simple Plan (1998)
Sam Raimi was, at one time, mostly known for horror. Of the novels of Scott B. Smith you would think he’d make a movie of, maybe The Ruins would make more sense. That said, A Simple Plan reminds you that he once lived in the same house as the Coen Brothers when all were new to […]
Vice Squad (1982)
Princess (Season Hubley, who was Nikki in Hardcore) is walking the streets to make money for her daughter Lisa losing her job. Sunset Boulevard is dangerous, as you know if you’ve watched the same movies that I have, but never more dangerous when pimp Ramrod (Wings Hauser) is running things. LAPD vice squad sergeant Tom Walsh […]
Terror Circus (1973)
Also known as Barn of the Naked Dead and Nightmare Circus, this is one of those movies where no one is even sure who made it. Sure, Alan Rudolph is listed as the director, but stuntman Gerald Cormier — also the leader of the film’s distributor CMC Pictures — is credited. Some say that he’s Rudolph. […]
The Pyx (1973)
Also known as The Hooker Cult Murders, The Pyx is based on the novel by John Buell. The pyx is a container used by Catholics to hold the Eucharist, literally the body and blood of Jesus Christ in the form of blessed unleavened bread. While directed by Harvey Hart and written by Robert Schlitt, this was a […]
Mirrors (1978)
Noel Black made his name with a short entitled Skaterdater and he made Pretty Poison, which is an incredible movie but died at the box office. Then, his career fell apart. He said, “The gold-plated nail in my career coffin was pounded when, after the box-office failure of Pretty Poison, I accepted a dreadful project, Cover Me Babe, that […]
Help Me… I’m Possessed (1974)
I’m still trying to figure this out. Made as Nightmare at Blood Castle, this is about Dr. Arthur Blackwood (Bill Greer, who co-wrote the script with Deedy Peters, who were a comedy team; he would go on to write and produce House Calls, Goodnight Beantown and Charles In Charge; she would be in 17 episodes of House Calls), who […]
Homicidal (1961)
William Castle mortgaged his house and formed William Castle Productions in 1958. For his fifth movie after Macabre, House on Haunted Hill, The Tingler and 13 Ghosts, Castle had another of his gimmick ideas: the Fright Break. Before the end of the movie, a 45-second timer would tell audience members that they could get a […]
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