UNEARTHED FILMS BLU-RAY RELEASE: Feed (2005)
Some movies make you want to grab a snack, and then there’s Feed, a movie that makes you want to join a monastery, take a vow of silence, and never look at a calorie again. Directed by Brett Leonard (the man who gave us The Lawnmower Man and Hideaway), this is a nasty, slick and […]
The Witch’s Sabbath (2005)
Why yes, I am trying to watch every Jeff Leroy movie. A coven of witches open a sexy strip club called the Sin and Skin. That would be enough for some filmmakers. But no, here Leroy adds the wrinkle that they must kill 666 men by Halloween so that their dark lord can rise and […]
Buckethead Secret Recipe (2005)
Brian Patrick Carroll, known as Buckethead, has released more than 600 albums and 300 live bootlegs. Where most know him is from his brief time with Guns ‘n Roses. Between 2000 and 2004, Buckethead was a lead guitarist of the band, playing on Chinese Democracy and touring wih them. Inspired by Halloween 4: The Return of […]
JUNESPLOITATION: The Torturer (2005)
June 30: Junesploitation’s topic of the day — as suggested by F This Movie— is Italian horror! “A dark and gloomy theatre set for strange castings. An awful and neglected villa. A stage writer who pushes young actresses to put themselves at risk in morbid auditions thick with physical pain and pleasure. Around the writer […]
Segreti di donna 2 (2005)
The Dark Side of a Woman was directed by Pierre Le Blanc, but by now, we all know that this is Bruno Mattei. When the rest of his Italian exploitation brothers were either dead, retired or relegated to making TV movies or pornography, Bruno was still out there. Here, he’s 74 years old and still […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: Jess Franco’s Perversion (2005)
Augustina Villeblanche (Lina Romay) runs a brothel where her primary duties are spending the days and nights in bed with her assistant (Rachel Sheppard). Two new girls (Carmen Montes and Fata Morgana) have come to work there, which mainly means whipping a man and shaving one another before they decide to eat the man. Such […]
MILL CREEK BLU RAY RELEASE: The King of Queens (1998-2007)
Premiering on CBS on September 21, 1998, The King of Queens was one of those shows that always seemed to be on. I had never watched it, and all I knew about Kevin James was that he was Mick Foley’s high school wrestling teammate. But when I showed the box set on our weekly “What Came […]
ARROW VIDEO BLU RAY RELEASE: Rampo Noir (2005)
Based on the works of Edogawa Ranpo, this anthology film features four different stories told by manga artists and directors. It’s a strange film that looks gorgeous and feels incredibly dense. “Mars Canal, by Suguru Takeuchi, starts the film. A wordless episode, it has a nude man wandering a wasteland and longing for a lover […]
ARROW BLU RAY RELEASE: J-Horror Rising: Noroi: The Curse (2005)
As he worked on a documentary he called The Curse, paranormal expert Masafumi Kobayashi (Jin Muraki) disappeared, leaving behind his burned home and his dead wife Keiko (Miyako Hanai). All that is left is the movie he was making. The Curse concerns Junko Ishii (Tomono Kuga), a woman whose apartment created sounds of crying children. […]
APRIL MOVIE THON 3: Domino (2005)
April 9: You’re With the Band — A movie that has a band cameo. Here’s an article to inspire you. In 1994, director Tony Scott was sent an article by his business manager Neville Shulman. “My Gun for Hire: Why a Movie Star’s Rebel Daughter Turned Into a Bounty Hunter” by Sacha Gervasi was about […]
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