Blu-ray and DVD: Marty (1955) Hard working and good natured butcher Marty Piletti (the wonderful Ernest Borgnine) is 34 and unmarried. This seems to cause great concern to his family, and especially his quintessentially Italian immigrant mother (Esther Minciotti). Marty’s life trundles on; he meets his also single friends after work, and at weekends they […]
Blu-ray: Rawhead Rex (1986) Famously written by the great Clive Barker, Rawhead Rex is a humdinger of a marmite (love it or hate it) film. Set in 1980’s rural Ireland, it tells the tale of a monster (Rawhead Rex) who is unsuspectedly unleashed on the people and countryside. There’s no real explanation of what it is, […]
Blu-ray: Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988) What is it with clowns? Does anyone actually find them funny and not absolutely terrifying? The makers of Poltergeist and IT haven’t really helped to champion the cause for family friendly clowns and neither does Killer Klowns from Outer Space! Although these clowns are a darn sight more […]
DVD: Society (1989) I first watched Society many years ago at ‘Black Sunday’; an all night horror movie festival that was held in Manchester. I still remember the audience reaction at the infamous ‘shunting’ scene…the place went wild! Indeed, all of the make-up effects by Screaming Mad George got a rousing reaction from a caffeine […]
Adapted by Paul Kane (Sherlock and the Servants of Hell, The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy) from Clive Barker’s seminal and much loved Origins novella ‘The Hellbound Heart’. This one story opened up a universe of Hell for initiates, The Hell Priest (Pinhead), the Cenobites, Marchand’s Box, and has so far been the inspiration for […]
DVD: A Violent Man (2017) After watching fists flying recently in Jailbreak, Kickboxer: Retaliation, Re:Born and Female Fight Club, more fictionalised pugilist punishment appeared here at 60MW Towers when A Violent Man appeared in our mailroom. Thankfully I am of course referring to the title of a movie, and not the man who stars in it, Thomas […]
DVD: Money Movers (1978) ‘Darcey’s Security Services’ moves a lot of money every day, and anyone with thoughts of robbing them would probably need someone ‘on the inside’. Though even having that doesn’t mean that everything will run smoothly. When a warning arrives that their counting house, which can hold up to $20M, is the […]
Blu-ray: Buck Roger in the 25th Century (1979-81) The success of Star Wars at the cinema in 1977, not only began a series of similar ‘space themed’ movies being released onto the big screens worldwide, but also rejuvenated the genre on television too. Battlestar Gallactica ran from 1978-79 and was created by the great Glen […]
DVD: Save Me (2018) Save Me is a six-part British television drama serial, written by and starring Line of Duty & The Walking Dead’s Lennie James. The series stars James as Nelson ‘Nelly’ Rowe, an alcoholic scumbag, who wriggles out of sticky situations with his charm and whose life is turned upside down when Jody, […]
DVD: Threads (1984) I remember when Threads was originally broadcast here in the UK in 1984. For weeks afterwards it was the main topic of conversation at work: would you prefer to be incinerated in the initial blast or survive? Would making a survival shelter out of your doors actually do anything practical? Would humanity […]