Review: The Frightened Woman
Blu-ray: The Frightened Woman (AKA: The Laughing Woman)(1969)Dr. Sayer (Philippe Leroy) is the head of a philanthropic foundation with peculiar views on humanity’s issues, which young journalist Maria (Dagmar Lassander) finds out to her detriment when she is drugged by Dr. Sayer and subjected to a series of increasingly bizarre and sadistic acts while trapped […]
Review: Mausoleum
Blu-ray: Mausoleum (1983)The 3rd release from Treasured Films (make sure to read my reviews of The Last Hunter and Satan’s Little Helper), Mausoleum is a movie I loved back on VHS and so welcomed a Blu-ray release from Treasured Films who have done a great job with it.Bobbie Bresee plays Susan, who we are introduced […]
Review: Love Me Tonight
Blu-ray: Love Me Tonight (1932)Maurice (Maurice Chevalier) is a Parisian tailor who loves wearing his hats at a rakish angle and breaking into song at every opportunity, as does everyone else in the movie…the singing that is, not the rakish hat wearing. Well it is a musical.After being swindled out of his tailoring fees by […]
Review: Tramps!
Digital: Tramps! (2022)A documentary digging deep into the heart of Britain’s New Romantic scene of the 70s and 80s may not on the surface seem like an ideal subject matter for an ageing rocker such as myself, who spent those years in an entirely different subsection of music influenced society listening to different music and […]
Review: World Noir Vol 1
The latest release from Radiance Films (and their final release of what has been a superb 1st year for them) is World Noir Vol 1, a box set containing three noir classics from around the world, with this particular collection concentrating on releases from the 1950s.1957s I Am Waiting is a Japanese noir which begins […]
Review: Savage Guns – Four Classic Westerns Vol 3
After watching all the films in the newest Arrow western genre box set, I’m not going to go through each film and talk about the plot etc, but I have to admit that churning out basically what Arrow have concisely written on their website seems…daft. So: In Paolo Bianchini’s I Want Him Dead (1968), American […]
Review: The Chucky Collection Limited Edition 4K UHD
Well, this is a stonker from Arrow! A box set to end all boxsets for Chucky fans. Now we (as in horror film fans) all know the Don Mancini 1988 film ‘Child’s Play’ telling the story of serial killer Charles Lee Ray, who after being fatally shot in a toy store transfers his soul into […]
Review: Godzilla Minus One
Can you believe Godzilla is almost 70? The first film was released in 1954 and Godzilla Minus One marks the 37th movie in the franchise.This could be viewed as a reboot prequel of sorts as it’s set in postwar Japan, and deals with a country and it’s people struggling to come to terms with that. […]
Review: Tremors 2: Aftershocks Limited Edition 4K UHD
4K UHD: Tremors 2: Aftershocks (1996)Having reviewed and enjoyed Arrow’s 4K UHD release of Tremors, I was delighted when the sequel was announced as another 4K UHD release.Set 6 years after the original movie (the same period between the movies themselves), Earl Bassett (Fred Ward) has long since used up the fame that was bestowed […]
Review: The Clangers
Fabulous Films have knocked it out of the park (and onto the moon) releasing yet another favourite television show from when I was a child. This time unleashing all 26 episodes from Season 1 and 2 of The Clangers, now fully restored and presented from high-definition masters.Originally broadcast between 1969 and 1972, The Clangers was […]